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Discovery of compounds that keep plants fresh
Credit: ITbM, Nagoya University A team of scientists at Nagoya University has discovered new compounds that can control stomatal movements...
£1 million funds 7 grants for pancreatic cancer research
(Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund) Seven research projects have been awarded grants totaling £1.1 million by the UK medical research charity,...
nTIDE March 2018 Jobs Report: Americans with disabilities reach 2-year milestone
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ - April 6, 2018. Americans with disabilities reached a milestone this month, as the...
New blood test found to predict onset of TB up to two years in advance
Credit: ATS April 6, 2018 -- A new blood test has been found to more accurately predict the development of...
PET tracer could help predict treatment effectiveness for depression
Credit: MR Ananth et al., Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, N.Y. RESTON, Va - A positron emission tomography (PET) imaging...
Researchers develop transparent patch to detect dangerous food threats
Credit: McMaster University Is that meat still good? Are you sure? McMaster researchers have developed a test to bring certainty...
OU engineering senior wins grand prize at 2018 Research Day at the Capitol
Credit: University of Oklahoma and OKEPSCoR A University of Oklahoma Mechanical Engineering Senior in the Accelerated Bachelor and Master of...
European Research Council invests EUR 650 million in advanced frontier research
How does air pollution affect the development of baby's brains? Can innovative heart regeneration treatments increase the long-term survival of...
New recommendations for endoscopic eradication therapy in Barrett’s esophagus
Downers Grove, Ill - April 6, 2018-- The latest issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the official journal of the American...
1C rise in atmospheric temperature causes rapid changes to world’s largest High Arctic lake
An interdisciplinary team of scientists examining everything from glaciology to freshwater ecology discovered drastic changes over the past decade to...
Save the date: Leading acoustics meeting in Minneapolis May 7-11, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 6, 2018 -- Science promises to sound more exciting than ever at this year's Acoustical Society of...
Nova-like explosion of spinning live bacteria explained
Credit: Igor Aronson, Penn State Suspensions of live bacteria in a viscous liquid do not act as expected when spun...
Food allergy is linked to skin exposure and genetics
'It's a major advance in understanding how food allergy starts' There are potential ways to intervene early to avoid developing...
Massive single-cell survey of kidney cell types reveals new paths to disease
Credit: Katalin Susztak, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA - The kidney is a highly complex organ -...
Genetics of the modern heirs of the Incas shed new lights about their origins and lineages
Credit: Jose Sandoval A multinational South American team from Peru, Brasil and Bolivia led by the Universidad de San Martin...
Unexpected finding may deter disabling diabetic eye disease
Credit: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Diabetic retinopathy is considered one of the most disabling complications of diabetes...
Research offers clues for improved influenza vaccine design
Credit: NIH WHAT: Influenza vaccines that better target the influenza surface protein called neuraminidase (NA) could offer broad protection against...
The blue whale genome reveals the animals’ extraordinary evolutionary history
Credit: Florian Schulz Frankfurt am Main/ Germany, April 5, 2018. For the first time, scientists of the German Senckenberg Biodiversity...
University of Minnesota receives $42.6 million to expand its impact on scientific health research
The University of Minnesota's Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) received more than $42 million in renewed National Institutes of...
Smartphone ‘scores’ can help doctors track severity of Parkinson’s disease symptoms
Credit: Noam Finkelstein/Johns Hopkins U Parkinson's disease, a progressive brain disorder, is often tough to treat effectively because symptoms, such...
