Sea urchin spurs new ideas for lightweight materials
Materials researchers love sea creatures. Mother-of-pearl provokes ideas for smooth surfaces, clams inspire gluey substances, shark's skin is used to ...
New model helps predict breast cancer risk in Hispanic women
ATLANTA — The first breast cancer risk-prediction model based entirely on data from Hispanic women, including whether a woman was ...
Understanding immune reaction to the hepatitis B virus
Credit: Professor Hiroyuki Oshiumi The innate immune system in mammals defends against infection from viruses and other microbial infections. Unfortunately, ...
Preventing autoimmune disease after a viral infection
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The key weapon against viruses and bacteria that invade the body is production of antibodies, ...
Reconstructing life at its beginning, cell by cell
Credit: Drosophila Virtual Expression eXplorer, BIMSB at the MDC After 13 rapid divisions a fertilized fly egg consists of about ...
The latest weapons against climate change: The beaver, the oyster, cold water and…
Credit: Jeff Burrell/WCS Beavers, high elevation streams, and oyster reefs are just three of the weapons in the fight against ...
University of Miami researchers awarded 2 NIH contracts to study Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer's disease is the leading cause of dementia in the elderly and occurs in all ethnic and racial groups. It ...
Livestock production, a much smaller challenge to global food security…
Credit: GLEAM 2.0 Philadelphia, PA, September 11, 2017 – Humans face mounting challenges when it comes to finding ways to ...
Study: Drug may curb female infertility from cancer treatments
Credit: Schimenti Lab, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. – An existing drug may one day protect premenopausal women from life-altering infertility ...
Researchers discover that human hair and nails can tell toxic secrets
Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Chemicals used as flame retardants that are potentially harmful to humans are found in ...
First validated canine behavioral genetics findings of nine fear and aggression traits in…
Anxiety disorders are the most common type of mental illness in the United States. And while much is understood about ...
Matching up fruit flies, mushroom toxins and human health
Credit: Thomas Werner Pulling data from 180 different lines of fruit flies, researchers from Michigan Technological University compared resistance to ...
Confronted with sepsis, key immune mechanism breaks, Indiana…
INDIANAPOLIS – When the body encounters an infection, a molecular signaling system ramps up the body's infection-fighting system to produce ...
Wine snobbery: Fact vs. fiction (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2017 — We all know at least one wine snob who goes ...
Study reveals interplay of an African bat, a parasite and a virus
Credit: Tony Goldberg, UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. — If there is anything scientists are certain of when it comes to bats ...
HKU Professor Kenneth Leung conferred as a Fellow SETAC
Credit: The University of Hong Kong On 12 November 2017, Professor Kenneth Leung Mei-yee of the Swire Institute of Marine ...
Cornell professors to launch NSF-funded space experiments
Credit: Cornell University For two Cornell engineering professors, the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory is basically a high-powered microscope ...
Rockefeller University’s Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., named 2016…
Credit: Mario Morgado/The Rockefeller University. Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., whose innovative use of reverse genetics has helped redefine the study of ...
Citrus scion/rootstock combinations show tolerance to huanglongbing
FORT PIERCE, FL – The citrus disease huanglongbing (HLB) is endemic in Florida, where it is estimated that more than ...
Wolf behaviour undeterred by tailings ponds and pit mines
Credit: Wildlife Habitat Effectiveness and Connectivity, 2014 EDMONTON (Wednesday, August 30, 2017)–Wolves do not avoid areas of human disturbance when ...
