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Foot-and-mouth crises to be averted with vaccination strategy
Credit: University of Warwick Foot-and-mouth epidemics could be controlled quickly and effectively by rapidly establishing how many animals can be...
Snap beans hard to grow in cover crop residue
Credit: Pixabay URBANA, Ill. - More no-till farmers are using cover crops to conserve soil and suppress weeds, but many...
‘Resurrecting’ tiny lake-dwelling animals to study evolutionary responses to pollution
ANN ARBOR--A University of Michigan biologist combined the techniques of "resurrection ecology" with the study of dated lake sediments to...
IU research: Rainbow dyes add greater precision to fight against ‘superbugs’
Credit: Creative Commons BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A study reported Feb. 17 in the journal Science led by researchers at Indiana...
Immune cell serves as an essential communications link for migrating cells
Credit: Dae Seok Eom, David Parichy Scientists at the University of Washington have discovered that a common type of cell...
Cells divide by ‘bricklaying on moving scaffolding’
Credit: TU Delft/Scixel It is the most crucial mechanism in life - the division of cells. For 25 years, it...
Glowing mice suggest new gene therapy technique
Credit: L.A. Cicero Timothy Blake, a postdoctoral fellow in the Waymouth lab, was hard at work on a fantastical interdisciplinary...
Printable solar cells just got a little closer
Credit: Photo: Kevin Soobrian A U of T Engineering innovation could make printing solar cells as easy and inexpensive as...
Genome surgery with CRISPR-Cas9 to prevent blindness
Credit: IBS It is estimated that almost one in every ten people over 65 has some signs of age-related macular...
NYU Tandon professors build AI to help autonomous vehicles locate themselves on maps
BROOKLYN, New York -Self-driving cars could account for 21 million new vehicles sold every year by 2035. Over the next...
RIT selected to receive National Science Foundation I-Corps grant
Rochester Institute of Technology is among eight National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) sites across the country selected to each...
How whale nerves survive huge stretching during feeding
Loading video... Credit: Margo Lillie When rorqual whales eat, they open their mouths and lunge. Their tongues invert as their...
Investigating the impact of ‘legacy sediments’ on water quality
Credit: Shreeram Inamdar/University of Delaware A University of Delaware researcher has been awarded a $499,500 grant from the United States...
2017 American Samoa deep-sea expedition to reveal wonders of unexplored ecosystem
Credit: Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research. There is a species of coral -- called...
Looking beyond cancer cells to understand what makes breast cancer spread
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- To understand what makes breast cancer spread, researchers are looking at where it...
Scientists create novel model that shows progression from normal blood cells to leukemia
(New York, NY - February 16, 2017) --Mount Sinai researchers have created a novel model that shows the step-by-step progression...
Real-time MRI analysis powered by supercomputers
Credit: TACC, UTHRC, Philips Healthcare One of the main tools doctors use to detect diseases and injuries in cases ranging...
Is your big data messy? We’re making an app for that
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Like a teenager's bedroom, big data is often messy. Malfunctioning computers, data entry errors and other hard-to-spot...
How cancers trick the immune system into helping rather than harming them
Credit: Dr Conor Henry and Professor Seamus Martin, Trinity College Dublin. Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have discovered how certain...
Whales use nested Russian-doll structure to protect nerve tissue during lunge dives
Credit: University of British Columbia Fin whales use two neatly packed levels of nested folds to protect the nerves along...
