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‘Fake fin’ discovery reveals new ichthyosaur species
Credit: (c) National Museum of Wales - Dean R. Lomax.jpg An ichthyosaur first discovered in the 1970s but then dismissed...
A new genetic marker accounts for up to 1.4 percent of cases of hereditary colon cancer
Credit: IDIBELL Researchers from the Hereditary Cancer group of the Oncobell Program of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) -...
Flexible sensors can detect movement in GI tract
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers CAMBRIDGE, MA - Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have built a flexible...
Size doesn’t matter — at least for hammerheads and swimming performance
Credit: Florida Atlantic University Sharks come in all shapes and sizes and perhaps the most unusual is the hammerhead shark,...
Machine learning translates ‘hidden’ information to reveal chemistry in action
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Chemistry is a complex dance of atoms. Subtle shifts in position and shuffles of electrons...
Giant bacteria make algae easy to stomach
Credit: © 2017 Till Rothig and Anna Roik Red Sea surgeonfish use metabolically diverse giant bacteria to digest different types...
How to ‘cook’ an egg without heat — and other weird egg science (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 2017 -- You can learn a lot from eggs. The versatile, delicious,...
Pest resistance to biotech crops surging
Credit: Alex Yelich/University of Arizona In 2016, farmers worldwide planted more than 240 million acres (98 million hectares) of genetically...
$900K NSF grant helps Wake Forest researchers look for the big picture in big data
Credit: WFU / Ken Bennett Ever put an unripe avocado into a bag with a banana to make it guacamole-ready?...
Research clarifies nuclear hormone receptor function in plants
Credit: IGDB The striking capacity for plants to adapt their growth and development to an ever-changing environment is mediated by...
Call to action on food justice and overcoming disparities in infant nutrition
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 10, 2017--The "first food system" in the U.S., which calls...
The costs of transporting petroleum products by pipelines and rail
While the policy debate surrounding crude oil transportation costs has emphasized accidents and spills, a new study by Carnegie Mellon...
Home-Brewed Poppy Seed Tea Can Be Lethal, Study Finds
Credit: Harriet McHale/SHSU HUNTSVILLE, TX (10-10-17) -- A home-brewing technique used to extract morphine from unwashed poppy seeds can produce...
Effort to create mouse that more closely mirrors human Alzheimer’s wins federal grant
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 10, 2017 - A proposal to humanize several mouse genes for research into Alzheimer's disease has spurred...
Kent State professor works with NASA Glenn & others to improve Lake Erie’s water quality
Credit: Photo credit: Sunny Dickerson, Bowling Green State University The conditions in Lake Erie continue to pose several health risks...
Evolution: The beneficiaries of mass extinction
Credit: Victor O. Leshyk, website: victorleshyk.com Mass extinctions were followed by periods of low diversity in which certain new species...
UTA wins funding to help first-generation, low-income, minority undergraduates
Credit: UT Arlington The University of Texas at Arlington received a $1.4 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of...
Fighting sickle cell disease by looking back to infancy
Credit: Sarah Pack Fast-track research focused on developing a new gene-modifying sickle cell disease treatment at the Medical University of...
Marine snowfall at the equator
The great ocean currents with their immense energy transport have a decisive influence on the atmosphere and thus the climate....
New mutations in iPS cells are mainly concentrated in non-transcriptional regions
Induced pluripotent stem cells--stem cell-like cells that have been reprogrammed from normal body cells--are a promising avenue of regenerative medicine,...
