Faster way of detecting bacteria could save your life
Credit: G.L. Kohuth, Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. - A Michigan State University researcher has developed a faster way ...
Salicylic acid promotes nasal mucosa colonization
Credit: Tom Grunert/Vetmeduni Vienna Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus ) can colonize the upper respiratory tract of around one quarter of ...
Surprise finding leads to new insights into splenic B cell differentiation
Belgian scientists have discovered the key role of protein Taok3 in the development of type B immune cells known as ...
Germanium outperforms silicon in energy efficient transistors with n- und p- conduction
Credit: NaMLab gGmbH A team of scientists from the Nanoelectronic Materials Laboratory (NaMLab gGmbH) and the Cluster of Excellence Center ...
Vilcek Prizes honor immigrants for outstanding contributions to biomedical science
New York, NY, February 3, 2017 -- The Vilcek Foundation is proud to announce that the 2017 Vilcek Prize for ...
Salicylic acid promotes nasal mucosa colonizati
Credit: Tom Grunert/Vetmeduni Vienna Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus ) can colonize the upper respiratory tract of around one quarter of ...
New research paints a merciless picture of life as a deaf-blind person
Credit: Photo: Eikholt/NKDB It is like being in a dirty glass jar, unable to reach out and with acquaintances passing ...
USDA-NIFA awards $3 million for plant & animal phenomics research
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced ...
Great Barrier Reef building coral under threat from poisonous seaweed
Credit: Griffith University The Griffith University study, conducted in collaboration with national and international experts in reef and chemical ecology, ...
Scientists look to shine light on our dark genome
After the 2003 completion of the Human Genome Project - which sequenced all 3 billion "letters," or base pairs, in ...
Leading US and Korean researchers to apply artificial intelligence to aging research
Credit: Insilico Medicine Summary: Many recent advances in artificial intelligence and aging biomarkers that transpired since 2013 are converging Gachon ...
‘Brute force’ can overcome antibiotic resistance
Antibiotics can still kill drug-resistant bacteria if they 'push' hard enough into bacterial cells, finds new UCL-led research funded by ...
Cancer survivors find online and phone communication with medical professionals beneficial
Advances in cancer care have led to a rise in the number of people surviving the illness. Cancer survival rates ...
Research review shows that safety is valued too low
New research has shown that the benchmark used by the Office for Nuclear Regulation for judging how much should be ...
Wetlands play vital role in carbon storage, study finds
GAMBIER, Ohio -- Human activity and development are correlated with reduced carbon storage in wetland soils, a new study published ...
Protein chaperone takes its job seriously
Credit: Huber and Hoelz/Caltech For proteins, this would be the equivalent of the red-carpet treatment: each protein belonging to the ...
Full(erene) potential
In what could be called a classic "Eureka" moment, UC Santa Barbara materials researchers have discovered a simple yet effective ...
Supercomputing, experiment combine for first look at magnetism of real nanoparticle
Loading video... Credit: Video credit to Colin Ophus, Berkeley Lab. Video courtesy of Nature. Barely wider than a strand of ...
Cell smasher
We're all pretty familiar with what happens when we sustain a knock on the head: First, the all-too-audible crack, accompanied ...
IU-based startup commercializes software to improve quality of care for pediatric patients
INDIANAPOLIS -- Two members of the Indiana University School of Medicine have launched a startup to commercialize software targeting improvement ...
