Pollutant emitted by forest fire causes DNA damage and lung cell death
When exposed in a laboratory to pollution levels comparable to those found in the atmosphere of the Amazon region during ...
‘Wing prints’ may identify individual bats as effectively as fingerprints identify people
Credit: The image was used as Figure 1 in their study, 'Bat wing biometrics: using collagen-elastin bundles in bat wings ...
Swortwood to investigate prevalence of synthetic opioids in saliva
Credit: Harriet McHale HUNTSVILLE, TX (10/24/17) -- A research team at Sam Houston State University received a $311,000 National Institute ...
The New York Stem Cell Foundation announces 2017 class of NYSCF – Robertson investigators
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) announced the 2017 class of NYSCF - Robertson Investigators, welcoming six of the ...
$65.5 million from NIH to create brain atlas
Credit: David Stafford and Rebecca Chance, UC Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is partnering with the Allen Institute for ...
High-speed locomotion neurons found in the brainstem
A clearly defined subpopulation of neurons in the brainstem is essential to execute locomotion at high speeds. Interestingly, these high-speed ...
New combination therapy of registered drugs shortens anti-Wolbachia therapy
Researchers from LSTM's Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics have found a way of significantly reducing the treatment required for ...
UBC researchers create definitive method to detect wildfire tainted wine grapes
Credit: Nathan Skolski, UBC Okanagan Wine producers and grape growers have a new, powerful tool at their disposal to help ...
Novel histone modifications couple metabolism to gene activity
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU) have ...
Cleaning marine litter in the Mediterranean and the Baltic Sea
Credit: Michael Prevenios, HCMR Newly funded, EU Horizon 2020 project targets increasing pollution in marine areas by focusing on the ...
New way to prevent unfavorable intestinal microbiota
Credit: Hokkaido University The trillions of microbes living in a mammal's intestine play an important role in the host's metabolism ...
New study explores dried cranberries’ effect on gut health
CARVER, Mass., October 24, 2017 - Researchers from the University of Wisconsin - Madison evaluated whether one simple addition to ...
Auxin tells the stem cells to stop growing and the gynoecium to start forming in flowers
Credit: Toshiro Ito (Nara, Japan) Many human and animal foodstuffs, such as grains and fruits, derive from flowering plants. Flowers ...
NEHI urges prompt action to enable value-based contracts for innovative, high cost cancer therapies
Credit: NEHI Oct. 24, 2017, WASHINGTON, D -- NEHI (the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation) called today for a ...
Insilico to present on the practical applications of the pharmaceutical AI for metabesity
Credit: Insilico Medicine,Inc. Tuesday, 10.24.2017, Baltimore, MD, Insilico Medicine, a leader in the field of artificial intelligence, is pleased to ...
New self-regulating nanoparticles could treat cancer
Scientists from the University of Surrey have developed 'intelligent' nanoparticles which heat up to a temperature high enough to kill ...
Self-esteem mapped in the human brain
A team of UCL researchers has devised a mathematical equation that can explain how our self-esteem is shaped by what ...
Antibiotics from a ‘molecular pencil sharpener’
Credit: Dmitry Ghilarov/Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and David Lawson/John Innes Centre Picture a brand-new, unsharpened pencil. The graphite ...
Single nanoparticle mapping paves the way for better nanotechnology
Credit: Svetlana Alekseeva Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and the Technical University of Denmark have developed a method that ...
Paul Tesar receives 2017 New York Stem Cell Foundation — Robertson Stem Cell Prize
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) announced today that Paul Tesar, DPhil, is the 2017 recipient of the NYSCF ...
