Paving a way to achieve unexplored semiconductor nanostructures
Peculiar Bi provoked nanostructures in compound semiconductor nanowires controlled by atomically precise epitaxial crystal growthCredit: Ehime University Nanowire is a ...
A compound effective to chemotherapy-resistant cancer cells identified
Credit: Hokkaido University A compound effective in killing chemotherapy-resistant glioblastoma-initiating cells (GICs) has been identified, raising hopes of producing drugs ...
Whole genome sequencing could help save pumas from inbreeding
Credit: Sebastian Kennerknecht When students at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) found a dead mule deer on campus, ...
Newly discovered virus infects bald eagles across America
Credit: UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Researchers have discovered a previously unknown virus infecting nearly a third of America's bald eagle ...
‘Flamenco dancing’ molecule could lead to better-protecting sunscreen
Credit: created by Dr Michael Horbury Molecule that protects plants from overexposure to light repurposed as a UV filter for ...
Energy flow in the nano range
Credit: Images: Björn Kriete (l.) / Stefan Mueller (r.) Plants and bacteria lead the way: They can capture the energy ...
Health care intervention: Treating high-need, high-cost patients
Study found focusing on patients' values instead of problems offered better resultsCredit: University of Houston In crisis and with nowhere ...
A new approach to reconstructing protein evolution
UMass Amherst, University of Virginia scientists propose new, more focused methodCredit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - There are an estimated ...
New study uncovers ‘magnetic’ memory of European glass eels
Researchers find first evidence of a fish capable of forming and retaining a magnetic memory of water currentsCredit: Alessandro Cresci ...
Researcher invents an easy-to-use technique to measure the hydrophobicity of micro- and nanoparticle
Credit: Copyright American Chemical Society The scientific and industrial communities who work with micro- and nanoparticles continue to labor with ...
Cod or haddock? UMass Amherst study looks at ‘name bias’ and fisheries sustainability
Grad student aims to promote tasty alternatives to overfished codCredit: UMass Amherst Could you taste the difference between cod and ...
When added to gene therapy, plant-based compound may enable faster, more effective treatments
Scripps Research team finds that a nontoxic molecule closely related to resveratrol can overcome barriers to delivering gene therapy into ...
First report of cotton blue disease in the United States
Credit: Kathy Lawrence and Auburn University St. Paul, MN (October, 2019)--In August 2017, Kathy S. Lawrence, a plant pathologist at ...
Training social workers in fight against opioids
$1.3 million federal grant helps UTA offer students training in addiction treatmentCredit: Elizabeth Couch, The University of Texas at Arlington ...
Next-generation sequencing used to identify cotton blue disease in the United States
Credit: Plant Management Network and Judith K. Brown St. Paul, MN (October, 2019)--Cotton blue disease, caused by Cotton leafroll dwarf ...
UTSA/NIH program diversifies pipeline of future biomedical researchers
New program to train the next generation of diverse researchers in the biomedical sciencesCredit: UTSA Oct. 10, 2019 — To ...
Journal of Women’s Health Reports launching January 2020
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 17, 2018 - Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers announces the ...
Research gauges neurodegeneration tied to FXTAS by measuring motor behavior
Credit: McKinney et al LAWRENCE -- The neurological disorder FXTAS (pronounced "fax-tas") stems from a genetic premutation seen in one ...
An evolution in the understanding of evolution
New modeling tool has implications for better understanding of diseaseCredit: UVA Engineering Remember domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, ...
Stranded whales detected from space
Credit: Maxar Technologies 2019 A new technique for analysing satellite images may help scientists detect and count stranded whales from ...
