Benchmarking computational methods for metagenomes
They are everywhere, but invisible to the naked eye. Microbes are the unseen, influential forces behind the regulation of key ...
Designer biosensor can detect antibiotic production by microbes
Credit: Edward Kalkreuter Researchers from North Carolina State University have engineered designer biosensors that can detect antibiotic molecules of interest. ...
NIH awards $2.4 million to MPFI scientist to study neural circuits in the visual cortex
Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience Dr. David Fitzpatrick, Scientific Director and CEO at the Max Planck Florida Institute ...
Genetic targets to chemo-resistant breast cancer identified
Credit: NCI DALLAS - Oct. 3, 2017 - Research led by Dr. Carlos Arteaga, Director of the Harold C. Simmons ...
Six for six
UC Santa Barbara's Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) has received its sixth consecutive multimillion-dollar grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) ...
Got a picky eater? How ‘nature and nurture’ may be influencing eating behavior in young children
URBANA, Ill. - For most preschool-age children, picky eating is just a normal part of growing up. But for others, ...
‘CRISPR-Gold’ fixes Duchenne muscular dystrophy mutation in mice
Credit: Murthy/Conboy/Nature Biomedical Engineering Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have engineered a new way to deliver CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing ...
New information on a major player in chronic visceral leishmaniasis
In an article in the latest issue of Plos Pathogens, INRS professor Simona Stäger and her team show how the ...
Ammonia emissions unlikely to be causing extreme China haze
Credit: Georgia Tech As China struggles to find ways to remedy the noxious haze that lingers over Beijing and other ...
Gabapentin co-use may increase risk of fatal opioid overdose
Co-prescription of the anticonvulsant gabapentin is associated with an increased risk of opioid-related death in people who are prescribed opioid ...
Follow the fossils, find the answers
Credit: Authors: Sankar Chatterjee, Christopher R. Scotese, and Sunil Bajpai and The Geological Society of America Boulder, Colo., USA: The ...
Oregon study finds that microbial dispersal impacts animal guts
EUGENE, Ore. -- Oct. 3, 2017 -- In a special experiment, zebrafish with defective immune systems swam and dined with ...
New portable blood analyzer could improve anemia detection worldwide
Credit: Nikita Taparia, University of Washington WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 3, 2017 -- About one quarter of the world's population suffers ...
LSUHealthNO to study cause of alcohol abuse linked to PTSD
New Orleans, LA - LSU Health New Orleans has been awarded a $1.85 million grant over five years by the ...
Visualizing life in silico
Programming a molecular biology experiment can be similar to playing Sudoku; both are simple if you're working with only a ...
Gut bacteria metabolism may factor into hypertension
Credit: Lauren D. Quinn URBANA, Ill. - One in three American adults suffers from high blood pressure, or hypertension. The ...
UW wins $7 million grant to wean crops from nitrogen fertilizers
MADISON, Wisconsin -- Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Florida will use a $7 million grant ...
Cell signals that trigger wound healing are surprisingly complex
Credit: Michael Todd, Vanderbilt University In a sharp and pointy world, wound healing is a critical and marvelous process. Despite ...
Livestock grazing harming giant panda habitat
Credit: Binbin Li DURHAM, N.C. -- Increased livestock grazing in China's Wanglang National Nature Preserve has damaged one third of ...
‘Ideal biomarker’ detects Alzheimer’s disease before the onset of symptoms
Credit: prostem.eu Croatia, New Mexico (October, 2017): Absence of a prefrontal activation during sensory gating of simple tones detects the ...
