Researchers make key advance toward production of important biofuel
Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - An international research collaboration has taken an important step toward the commercially viable ...
Three years of monitoring of Oregon’s gray whales shows changes in health
Credit: GEMM Lab, Oregon State University NEWPORT, Ore. - Three years of "health check-ups" on Oregon's summer resident gray whales ...
Research on the International Space Station shows key changes in cultured heart cells
Spaceflight changes much about the human body, including how the heart functions and how cells that create heart tissue behave. ...
Beta cells from stem cells
Potential for cell replacement therapyCredit: ©Helmholtz Zentrum München The loss of insulin-secreting beta cells by autoimmune destruction leads to type ...
Novel anti-PD-1 drug was approved for melanoma treatment
Credit: BIOCAD The first Russian original PD-1 inhibitor Forteca® (INN: prolgolimab) was granted approval for market authorization by the Russian ...
Antibiotic exposure can ‘prime’ single-resistant bacteria to become multidrug-resistant
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Antibiotics save lives -- but using them also helps antibiotic-resistant strains evolve ...
NASA catches formation and final fate of Eastern Pacific’s Tropical Depression 1E
Credit: NASA/NRL The Eastern Pacific Ocean's hurricane season may not officially start until mid-May, but the first tropical cyclone of ...
Harnessing the power of gallium nitride and machine learning
$2.5 million project will develop compact power conversion systemsCredit: University of Houston Military installations, especially on ships and aircraft, require ...
HudsonAlpha scientists collaborate to uncover a gene that doubles the risk of developing several neurodegenerative diseases
Credit: HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology April 27, 2020 (Huntsville, Ala.) - Scientists at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, the University ...
Open access hardware & 3D printing can help tackle demand for health supplies
Local communities could use open access hardware to help alleviate the burden of COVID-19 on global health systems, according to ...
Virtual and augmented reality: warnings about the ethical dangers
Limits between reality and virtual experiencesCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Research on virtual reality started in the eighties, but it is ...
European countries face a costly 23% increase in fragility fractures by 2030
A new IOF-led study examining the burden and management of fragility fractures in six European countries reveals an alarming treatment ...
Salmonid fishes use different mechanism to defend against parasite infections
Credit: Pekka Hyvärinen, The Natural Resources Institute Finland Collaborate research of the University of Jyvaskyla and the Natural Resources Institute ...
WVU business experts partner with the National Guard to forecast PPE needs
Credit: West Virginia University When COVID-19 started depleting stockpiles of medical gear in hotspots like New York and New Jersey, ...
Rapid evolution in fish: genomic changes within a generation
Credit: University of Basel, Dario Moser Evolution is usually viewed as a slow process, with changes in traits emerging over ...
Superconductivity: It’s hydrogen’s fault
Nickel is supposed to herald a new age of superconductivity -- but this is proving more difficult than expected. Scientists ...
For ME/CFS patients, viral immunities come at a devastating, lifelong cost
New research shows a connection between a common human herpes virus-6 exposure that leaves a DNA copy of the virus ...
How do epidemics spread and persist before and after introduction of a vaccine?
Modeling 40 years of measles dynamics demonstrates the complexity of epidemic spread and the impact of vaccinationCredit: Max S. Y. ...
‘Elegant’ solution reveals how the universe got its structure
A direct, observation-based test of one of the pillars of cosmologyCredit: Photograph by Yuri Beletsky, courtesy of the Carnegie Institution ...
‘We urgently need a renewed public debate about new breeding technologies’
Göttingen agricultural economist evaluates research results on food securityCredit: S Koppmair Plant breeding has considerably increased agricultural yields in recent ...
