Toward efficient high-pressure desalination
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The desalination industry, a critical source of potable water in many arid regions, generated more than $13 ...
TSRI’s Benjamin Cravatt elected to National Academy of Medicine
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, CA - Oct. 16, 2017 - Benjamin Cravatt, professor and co-chair of the ...
Novel reagent detects memory immune response in vaccinated animals
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 16, 2017--Researchers have developed a novel reagent capable of detecting ...
Stress might be just as unhealthy as junk food to digestive system
We all know that a poor diet is unhealthy, but a new BYU study finds that stress may just as ...
Whales and dolphins have rich ‘human-like’ cultures and societies
Whales and dolphins (Cetaceans) live in tightly-knit social groups, have complex relationships, talk to each other and even have regional ...
Learning during development is regulated by an unexpected brain region
During childhood, the brain goes through critical periods in which its learning ability for specific skills and functions is strongly ...
Harvey runoff menaces Texas’ coral reefs
Credit: Jesse Cancelmo HOUSTON -- (Oct. 16, 2017) -- The more than 13 trillion gallons of floodwater from Hurricane Harvey ...
What’s the next step for exon skipping therapies to treat duchenne muscular dystrophy?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 16, 2017--A team of leading European clinicians and scientists presents ...
A cautionary tale
In eukaryotic cells, the hereditary material DNA is mostly confined to the nucleus whereas the presence of DNA outside of ...
Bite on this: Kansas State University researcher finds alligators eat sharks
Credit: Photo courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service J.N. MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- Jaws, beware! Alligators may be coming for ...
A kite that might fly
Credit: Reproduced with permission from reference 1© 2017 Nature Publishing Group The notion of tethered wind turbines that generate electricity ...
Childhood poverty, poor support may drive up pregnant woman’s biological age
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Pregnant women who had low socioeconomic status during childhood and who have poor family social support appear ...
Ocean atmosphere rife with microbes
Credit: © 2016 Joan Costa Microbes in the atmosphere and the role of the oceans in their movement have been ...
Nidoviruses redundantly express genes and encode more proteins than previously believed, study finds
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Arteriviruses, a family of single-stranded RNA viruses that belongs to the order Nidovirales, produce more proteins ...
Neutrons observe vitamin B6-dependent enzyme activity useful for drug development
Credit: Jill Hemman and Andrey Kovalevsky /Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 16, 2017 ...
DFG to fund electron microscopes for university research
At its autumn session, the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) approved the funding of 17 ...
Cocktail tests on toxic waste called for
Credit: University of Barcelona Surprisingly low concentrations of toxic chemicals - from fungicides to antidepressants - can change the way ...
Germ-free hatching eggs: An alternative to formaldehyde application
Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz There was a Europe-wide outcry in the summer of 2017 as it emerged that ...
Major advance in nanopore detection of peptides and proteins
Nanopore technology, which is used to sequence DNA, is cheap, hand-held and works in the jungle and in space. The ...
Research to explore the development of deadly brain tumors
Credit: University of Plymouth Glioblastoma is the most common of malign brain tumours in adults, and it currently has no ...
