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September 18, 2025

Cerebrospinal fluid may be able to indentify aggressive brain tumors in children

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECredit: Allyn DiVito FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE It may be possible to identify the presence of an aggressive brain...

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Capturing the many facets of evolvability

All life evolves: microorganisms can become resistant to drugs, viruses evade our vaccines, and species may adapt to climate change....

Artist’s depiction of several important crop plants in the grass family

A new molecular family tree of grasses

The evolutionary relationships among grasses—including important crop plants like wheat, rice, corn, and sugarcane—have been clarified in new molecular study...

A red eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution-led study explores effects of noise on marine life

Woods Hole, MA (March 2, 2022) – New research shows turtles can experience temporary hearing loss from an excess of...

Susan N. Thomas, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech

Scaffolding tumor formation sets the stage for better immunotherapies

The discrepancy between preclinical advances in breast cancer immunotherapy and poor patient outcomes is rooted in the limitations of current...

Gene Editing gets safer thanks to redesigned Cas9 protein

One of the grand challenges with using CRISPR-based gene editing on humans is that the molecular machinery sometimes makes changes...

We should be eating more insects and using their waste to grow crops, says plant ecologist

Marcel Dicke (@DickeMarcel) already knew that insects are an excellent source of protein for humans, but he didn’t expect to...

Study reveals human lifestyle in East Asia 40,000 years ago

A team of researchers from China, Germany, France and Spain, has revealed the lifestyle of humans living in East Asia...

Did COVID-19 make tinnitus, ‘ringing’ in the ears, worse?

Tinnitus, most often described as “ringing” in the ears even though no external sound is present, also can be perceived...

Mammoths, meet the metaverse

Los Angeles, CA (March 2, 2022) — Fearsome dire wolves and saber-toothed cats no longer prowl around La Brea Tar...

Plotting the placental protein NRK: Understanding the molecular evolution processes underlying placenta acquisition in eutherian ancestors

The molecular evolution of placental protein NRK and its function in regulating placental growth has finally been clarified by researchers...

THz–fingerprint vibrational spectroscopy at an ultrafast spectral rate

Raman spectroscopy offers a powerful approach to chemical measurement. By directly probing molecular vibrations, it obtains chemical specificity without the...

Targeting the brain’s energy metabolism may hold the key for treating Parkinson’s disease

Nicotinamide riboside (NR) is a member of the vitamin B3 family, which can be found in foods like fruits, vegetables, meat,...

Mutations in SARS-CoV-2 spike protein receptor-binding domains may result in escape variants resistant to therapeutics and vaccines

The SARS-CoV-2 virus is continuously evolving and structural changes to the virus may impact the efficacy of antibody therapies and...

Story tips: Beneath the skin, crustacean-inspired cotton, automating clean water, samples in space and capturing furnace emissions

Biology — Beneath the skinCredit: Credit: Kang Ko/UPenn Biology — Beneath the skin University of Pennsylvania researchers called on computational systems biology expertise at...

How one marine chemistry lab slashed their carbon footprint

Laboratories may consume large quantities of plastics, generate waste, and emit greenhouse gases. A report published in PLOS Sustainability and...

Fishmeal and fish oil inputs in Scottish farmed salmon production.

Feeding small fish to people instead of to farmed salmon could make seafood production more sustainable

Farming Atlantic salmon requires a high volume of wild-caught fish as feed, but produces only a small percentage of the...

WVU researcher finds over-the-counter meds a ‘needle in the haystack’ of the larger pain pill epidemic

Drug misuse is not exclusive to the opioid epidemic, according to a recent West Virginia Universitystudy. Every year, about 50,000 people...

Irish-led €10 million project launches to deliver ‘precision medicine’ for Motor Neuron Disease

An ambitious academic, clinical and industry research programme supported by a €5 million funding grant from Science Foundation Ireland, which...

Small water samples can find really big animals