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Credit: Photo courtesy of Jane Ogilvie. In a study that shows the importance of climate change on critical pollinators, North ...

IU, Regenstrief, LifeOmic announce collaboration to revolutionize medicine

Credit: LifeOmic INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana University, the Regenstrief Institute and Indianapolis-based technology company LifeOmic have announced a first-of-its kind collaboration ...

Algae with light switch

Credit: Oliver Bäumchen, MPIDS, Göttingen / Thomas Braun, Heidelberg Sunlight allows green algae to do more than just carry out ...

UMN Medical School’s Center for Magnetic Resonance Research receives NIH U01 grant

The University of Minnesota Medical School's Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR) has been awarded a grant from the National ...

BMC Research in Progress Photo Competition showcases the best of science photography

From stunning microscopy, to researchers at work, and the various forms of life they investigate, the first BMC Research in ...

Elderly who have trouble identifying odors face risk of dementia

Credit: Rob Kozloff, for the University of Chicago Medicine A long-term study of nearly 3,000 adults, aged 57 to 85, ...

A stinging report: FSU reserach shows climate change a major threat to bumble bees

Credit: Jane Ogilvie TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- New research from a team of Florida State University scientists and their collaborators is ...

Dartmouth-led team receives NASA grant to study lake water quality in the Northeast

Credit: Photo by Sam Fey. Throughout the Northeast, lakes are popular destinations for recreation and often prized locations for second ...

Bloomfield receives Outstanding Clinician-Scientist Award

Columbus, Ohio - Clara D. Bloomfield, MD, Distinguished University Professor, cancer scholar and senior advisor to The Ohio State University ...

Molecular fingerprint of breast tumors linked to immune response in bloodstream

Credit: Vanessa Dumeaux Using newly developed software, researchers have shown that genes and molecular processes in breast cancer tumor cells ...

Male hormones may promote infection by virus that causes Kaposi’s sarcoma

Credit: Wang X, et al. (2017) Male hormones may facilitate infection with a virus that can cause a type of ...

Smart molecules trigger white blood cells to become better cancer-eating machines

Credit: Wang et al. at UC San Diego A team of researchers has engineered smart protein molecules that can reprogram ...

Researchers look to protect ‘self-reactive’ immune cells so they can fight melanoma

CHAPEL HILL -- Researchers at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center are using what they know about ...

UTHealth’s Jim Zheng awarded $5.8 million CPRIT grant to mine cancer data for cures

Credit: UTHealth In keeping with the shift in cancer research from data generation to data analysis, bioinformatician W. Jim Zheng, ...

UTA study says zinc can halt the growth of cancer cells

Zinc supplements can significantly inhibit the proliferation of esophageal cancer cells, according to a new study co-authored by a University ...

Tracking the body’s mini-shuttles

The development of a new technique for labelling the body's own transporters - exosomes - could have long term benefits ...

Unlocking the secrets of disease progression

Credit: UNM Throughout her academic career, Lina Cui has always been interested in the chemistry of disease in the human ...

TSRI researchers get a lead on how to detect degenerative neurological diseases sooner

Credit: TSRI Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) may have found a way to help doctors diagnose diseases like ...

Immune system cells protect against CMV-induced hearing loss in mice

Credit: Almishaal AA, et al. (2017) Immune system cells known as natural killer (NK) cells play an important protective role ...

Sharks longer in the tooth than we thought