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New ‘movie’ technique reveals bacterial signalling in sharper resolution
Credit: John Innes Centre The complex signalling networks bacteria use to adapt to their environments have become clearer following new...
MTRAC awards spark biomedical innovation at Wayne State University
DETROIT - Three Wayne State University (WSU) research teams were recently awarded funding from Wayne State's Michigan Translational Research and...
First cell-type census of mouse brains: Surprises about structure, male-female differences
Credit: Osten Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have mobilized advanced imaging...
Identifying ways to minimize the harm of energy drinks
Credit: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 5, 2017- Because many countries allow the sale of energy...
The Forsyth Institute receives NIH award to advance research on oral microbiomes
Cambridge, MA - October 5, 2017 - A research team led by the Forsyth Institute today received a $5.4 million...
Predicting when a sound will occur relies on the brain’s motor system
Credit: Benjamin Morillon Whether it is dancing or just tapping one foot to the beat, we all experience how auditory...
Sensory loss can be a warning sign of poor health outcomes, including death
A long-term study spanning five years and including more than 3,000 nationally-representative older US adults has found that a natural...
A novel textile material that keeps itself germ-free
Credit: Surfaceskins Scientists have developed a novel weapon in the battle against deadly hospital-acquired infections - a textile that disinfects...
Road pricing most effective in reducing vehicle emissions
Credit: University of British Columbia Motor vehicles are a major source of air pollution in urban areas, and for decades...
International team reconstructs nanoscale virus features from correlations of scattered X-rays
Credit: Jeff Donatelli, Berkeley Lab As part of an international research team, Jeff Donatelli, Peter Zwart and Kanupriya Pande of...
UC Davis, NEC Society launch major project to examine the use of probiotics in preemies
Credit: UC Regents Thanks to the leadership of Mark Underwood, chief of neonatology at UC Davis Children's Hospital, and the...
New Innovator Award of $2.8M to Julia Oh of JAX for skin microbiome studies
Credit: Jackson Laboratory photo by Tiffany Laufer Julia Oh, Ph.D., a Jackson Laboratory (JAX) assistant professor who explores the communities...
New Innovator Award of $2.8 million to Julia Oh of JAX for skin microbiome studies
Credit: Jackson Laboratory photo by Tiffany Laufer Julia Oh, Ph.D., a Jackson Laboratory (JAX) assistant professor who explores the communities...
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Cryo-electron microscopy explained (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2017 -- Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson have claimed this...
Jens Nielsen honored by ENI for research on the production of fuels from renewables
Credit: ENI Scientific Director at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark, Jens Nielsen,...
Study: Why lab researchers should talk with industry counterparts
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- When Shreya Dave was an MIT doctoral student working on a new kind of filter for desalination...
Sustainable financing of conservation just got a major boost
Credit: Julie Larsen Maher/WCS The Conservation Finance Alliance (CFA) announced today that the French Facility for Global Environment / Fonds...
Fight against top killer atherosclerosis garners acclaimed NIH award
Credit: Georgia Tech / Christopher Moore Many lives may someday depend on the work of researchers like Tony Kim. He's...
A candidate genetic factor for the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure has been found
Credit: P Lehtinen / University of Helsinki Researchers at the University of Helsinki, Finland, have found a genetic variation, which...
GW researcher receives more than $2.3 million to study cocaine’s influence on HIV
WASHINGTON (Oct. 5, 2017) -- Following studies showing that cocaine influences the replication and transcription of HIV, a researcher at...
