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Fundamental research enhances understanding of major cancer gene
Credit: Image captured by A. Kielkowska and adapted by T. Chessa New research represents a promising step towards better understanding...
Field trips of the future?
Virtual reality has nothing on nature. Just ask the UC Santa Barbara students who one recent day trekked to a...
‘Y’ a protein unicorn might matter in glaucoma
Credit: BrightFocus Foundation So unheard of was what researchers discovered in a protein associated with glaucoma that for over two...
MDC receives funding to collaborate on Human Cell Atlas
Credit: Credit: Gotthardt Lab, MDC The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin is participating as a research...
Harvard establishes strategic research alliance with Servier
Oct. 19, 2017 - Harvard University has established a 3-year strategic research alliance with Servier to support multiple, multi-year research...
Gut bacteria may hold clues to Parkinson’s disease
Credit: UMass Lowell LOWELL, Mass. - The saying "Listen to your gut" is taking on new meaning in the hunt...
Integrated lab-on-a-chip uses smartphone to quickly detect multiple pathogens
Credit: Micro & Nanotechnology Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign A multidisciplinary group that includes the University of Illinois at...
A surprise new butterflyfish is described from the Philippine ‘twilight zone’ and exhibit
Credit: © 2017 Luiz Rocha and the California Academy of Sciences SAN FRANCISCO (Oct. 19, 2017) -- A newly described...
Cleaning up? Not without helpers
Credit: Source: Fakler Lab Calcium-ATPases convey calcium ions (Ca2+) from the cytoplasm to the extracellular space via active transport (using...
WSU researcher links salmon sex to geological change
Credit: Photo by Carson Jeffres PULLMAN, Wash. - It turns out that sex can move mountains. A Washington State University...
Svante Pääbo to receive the 2018 HFSP Nakasone Award
(Human Frontier Science Program) Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) was the 2018...
ERC, Ca’ Foscari wins two grants
Ca' Foscari University of Venice won two ERC Starting Grants as a host institution specifically chosen by the researchers for...
Research yields test to predict bitter pit disorder in Honeycrisp apples
Credit: Penn State Extension A test to determine whether bitter pit -- a disorder that blindsides apple growers by showing...
Feel fuller, longer with mushrooms
Redwood Shores, CA (Oct. 19, 2017) - If breakfast is the most important meal of the day, then mushrooms may...
Ice stream retreats under a cold climate
Credit: Niels J. Korsgaard Why did the Jakobshavn Isbræ ice stream in West Greenland retreat under a cold climate period...
‘The father of the 2 degrees limit’: Schellnhuber receives Blue Planet Prize
The world's most prestigious award for pioneers in environmental science was given to Hans Joachim Schellnhuber this week in Tokyo....
Researchers find evidence of DNA damage in veterans with Gulf War illness
Credit: Mitch Mirkin Researchers say they have found the "first direct biological evidence" of damage in veterans with Gulf War...
Forest fires on the rise as JRC study warns of danger to air quality
Credit: EU, 2017 The JRC's annual forest fires report confirms a trend towards longer and more intense fire seasons in...
International patients increasingly seek in vitro fertilization treatment in US
A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that...
New tyrannosaur fossil is most complete found in southwestern US
Credit: Mark Johnston/NHMU A remarkable new fossilized skeleton of a tyrannosaur discovered in the Bureau of Land Management's Grand Staircase-Escalante...
