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3-D axon assemblies pave the way for drug discovery
Credit: 2017 Jun Kamei and Yoshiho Ikeuchi, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Axons are the structures through...
Humboldt Professorship for animal behaviour scientist Margaret C. Crofoot
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded a prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Professorship to the University of Konstanz for the...
New way to treat cholesterol may be on the horizon
HOUSTON - (Oct. 26, 2017) - A breakthrough discovery by scientists at Houston Methodist could change the way we treat...
Fly hunter has described 30 new species
Credit: Xiaolong Lin, NTNU University Museum Chironomids are also called non-biting midges or lake flies. Xiaolong Lin is a PhD...
Late Tiassic terrestrial ecosystem changes
Credit: Photo courtesy of Andrew V. Kearns, 2012. Boulder, Colo., USA: The Norian Chinle Formation in the Southwestern United States...
‘Bandit-masked’ feathered dinosaur hid from predators using multiple types of camouflage
Credit: David Marshall, University of Bristol Researchers from the University of Bristol have revealed how a small feathered dinosaur used...
Researchers engineer CRISPR to edit single RNA letters in human cells
The Broad Institute and MIT scientists who first harnessed CRISPR for mammalian genome editing have engineered a new molecular system...
Bat Poop: A Reliable Source of Climate Change
Credit: Dr. Bogdan Onac, University of South Florida People have long known that bat guano - the polite term for...
Imported candy at top of contaminated food list in California
Following a state law mandating testing, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued more alerts for lead in candy...
Wayne State receives $1.85 million NIH grant to identify novel antibiotic targets
Credit: Julie O'Connor, Wayne State University DETROIT - A research team from Wayne State University has received a $1.85 million...
Geobiologist receives prestigious Packard Fellowship
Magdalena R. Osburn, a Northwestern University geobiologist who studies ancient and modern microbes, has been awarded a 2017 Packard Fellowship...
Insilico to lecture on the recent advances in AI and blockchain for the pharma industry
Credit: Insilico Medicine Thursday, 10.26.2017, Baltimore, MD, Insilico Medicine, a leader in the field of artificial intelligence, is pleased to...
Researchers greenlight gas detection at room temperature
Credit: MIPT Press Office Russian researchers have developed a mechanism for detecting molecular hydrogen using green light to illuminate a...
Why insects can develop from unfertilized egg cells
A scientist from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology, has, together with his Russian colleague, explained frequent occurrence...
The Guanches originated from North Africa, shows DNA-study
Credit: Photo: Karolyn Shindler When and how the Guanches arrived to the Canary Islands have remained poorly understood, not least...
New network will advance treatments for children
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia For a variety of reasons, medications and devices specifically developed for children have traditionally lagged...
Case Western Reserve research advance may prevent a form of hereditary hearing loss
A research advance co-led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine's Kumar Alagramam, PhD, may stop the progression of...
Targeting mitochondria in pulmonary hypertension
(Edmonton, AB) Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) is a debilitating disease of the lung blood vessels that causes heart failure and...
Blocking key pathways is a way to defeat cancer stem cells
Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences in Japan and international collaborators have found that in humanized mice,...
Brain tumors share common tricks to survive
Different types of brain tumours may use strikingly similar approaches to generate and use energy to survive in the brain,...
