Mutated ferns shed light on ancient mass extinction
Most researchers believe that the mass extinction 201 million years ago was caused by release of CO2 by volcanism with ...
Transforming DNA repair errors into assets
CiRA scientists create a new bioinformatics tool, MHcut, to generate gene mutations with high precision to study diseasesCredit: Kyoto University/Woltjen ...
Attacking metastatic breast cancer with sound
Credit: Tohoku University Drugs can be safely delivered to cancerous lymph nodes via the lymphatic system and then released inside ...
DNA is like everything else: it’s not what you have, but how you use it
Flipons -- an instructive Genetic CodeCredit: Alan Herbert DNA sequences encode information in many different ways. Codons specify the amino ...
Giant neutrino telescope to open window to ultra-high-energy universe
Credit: ©Science China Press The long-sought, elusive ultra-high-energy neutrinos, ghost-like particles that travel cosmological-scale distances, are key to understanding the ...
Argonaute proteins help fine-tune gene expression
Credit: © 2019 Heno Hwang A nuclear protein bound to RNA molecules affects chromatin structure and gene expression. The finding ...
Development of mass production equipment for thin magnetic ribbon, minimizing energy-loss
Energy-saving benefits expected in a wide variety of devices through substituting magnetic steel sheetsCredit: Tohoku Magnet Institute JST announces that ...
The frostier the flower, the more potent the cannabis
Advanced microscopy reveals internal structures of cannabis biochemical factoriesCredit: Samuels Lab/UBC Cannabis flowers with the most mushroom-shaped hairs pack the ...
Biomarker for schizophrenia can be detected in human hair
Credit: RIKEN Working with model mice, post-mortem human brains, and people with schizophrenia, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain ...
Cutting-edge robot makes short work of gardening chores
Credit: Radim Tylecek / University of Edinburgh A gardening robot has been developed that can self-navigate and automatically prune roses ...
The Navy and Navajo Nation: Foundations for a research relationship
Credit: (U.S. Navy photo by Warren Duffie Jr.) ARLINGTON, Va.--The Department of the Navy's Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions ...
Lupus study illustrates the importance of diversity in genetic research
Credit: HudsonAlpha Scientists at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology have pinpointed epigenetic differences in the way lupus affects black women ...
Satellite analysis reveals and asymmetric Typhoon Bualoi
Credit: NASA/NOAA/UWM-CIMSS, William Straka III NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite and NASA's Aqua satellite both passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean ...
Bright SPARC
Medical University of South Carolina team tapped to develop the prototype of a cloud-based tool to measure impact of clinical ...
Influenza human challenge study begins at NIAID-sponsored clinical trial units
Credit: NIH A clinical trial in which healthy adults will be deliberately infected with influenza virus under carefully controlled conditions ...
What use do teenagers make of YouTube?
An article published in the journal Information, Communication & Society by Fernanda Pires, Carlos A. Scolari and Maria-José Masanet,examines teenagers' ...
A weapon to make a superbug to become more deadly
Professor Chen and his team carried out experiments to compare the survival rates of the mice infected with different bacterial ...
NASA-NOAA satellite catches development of gulf Tropical Depression 17
Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Gulf of Mexico and revealed that a low pressure area was ...
Insect evolution: Insect evolution
Credit: Picture: V. Baranov Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have shown that the incidence of midge and fly larvae ...
Pathogens from the sea
A marine pathogenic bacterium forms specialized cells for disseminationCredit: MPI f. terrestrial Microbiology/ Ringaard Vibrio parahaemolyticus can be found in ...
