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November 5, 2025

New liquid-metal membrane technology may help make hydrogen fuel cell vehicles viable

Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - While cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells offer clear advantages over the...

Keeping pandas off endangered list ledge

Credit: Sue Nichols, Michigan State University Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability Things aren't all black and white for giant...

Bone marrow protein may be target for improving stem cell transplants

Credit: University of Pennsylvania Bone marrow contains hematopoetic stem cells, the precursors to every blood cell type. These cells spring...

Worm infection reveals cross-talk in the lymph nodes

Credit: Lalit Kumar Dubey/EPFL Lymph nodes are small, kidney-shaped organs found throughout the body. Full of immune cells, their function...

Helping corals to cope with pressure

NUS study: Deforestation in Cambodia linked to higher risk of ill health in young children

August 27, 2017

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have found that the loss of dense forest in Cambodia was associated...

Study paves the way for cancer treatments that might prevent relapses after radiotherapy

Credit: Sonia Jancar / University of São Paulo Whenever an organism is damaged, the cells surrounding the wound receive signals...

Delivers medicine to cancer cells while protecting healthy cells

Credit: NTNU Cancer treatments, including chemotherapy, have helped many of those who have been diagnosed with the disease to go...

3.7 million project for the next generation of brain tumor researchers

(University of Plymouth) A pan-European initiative led by the University of Plymouth designed to train the next generation of brain...

Guelph study shows endangered sharks, rays further threatened by global food markets

A majority of shark fins and manta ray gills sold around the globe for traditional medicines come from endangered species,...

McIndoe awarded $12.8 million grant to continue to lead national consortium on diabetic complications

Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Aug. 25, 2017) - Dr. Richard A. McIndoe, bioinformatics expert and associate director of the...

Millions of novel genetic variants found in 1,000 Swedish individuals

An extensive exercise to map genetic variation in Sweden has found 33 million genetic variants, 10 million of which are...

Heart hormones protect against obesity and insulin resistance

Credit: Michael Cairns Orlando, Fla., Aug. 25, 2017 - Researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) in Lake...

New research on Fragile X syndrome reinforces importance of early detection

Credit: Caleb Doll, Broadie Laboratory, Vanderbilt University Fragile X syndrome--the most common heritable cause of autism spectrum disorder--is something of...

Trash to treasure: The benefits of waste-to-energy technologies

Credit: Shutterstock/Argonne National Laboratory Instead of hauling food waste to landfills, we might want to use that organic waste to...

10 million reasons that treatment of cancers caused by viruses may advance

New Orleans. LA - The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded LSU Health New Orleans a $10 million...

$4.5 million grant funds new disease-resistant strawberries

Credit: Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis The Public Strawberry Breeding Program at the University of California, Davis, and colleagues in California and...

From plant odorant detection to sex pheromone communication

Biologists at Lund University in Sweden are now able to show that the receptors enabling the primitive moth species, Eriocrania...

UNC-Chapel Hill reaches milestone in development of Kinase Chemogenomic Set

(CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Aug. 25, 2017) - The Structural Genomics Consortium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...

Faster, more precise, more stable: Study optimizes graphene growth