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Credit: Anders Hedenström WATCH: A tobacco hawkmoth flies in a wind tunnel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sgqb8wnQGA) For the first time, researchers are able...

SUG conference brings faculty and students together with OSC staff

In a week marked by a 30-year milestone, researchers who are breaking new ground came face to face Thursday with...

Climate’s effects on flowers critical for bumble bees

Credit: Photo courtesy of Jane Ogilvie. In a study that shows the importance of climate change on critical pollinators, North...

New mouse model replicates an underlying cause of intellectual disability

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have developed the first mice that lack the Upf3b gene,...

Examining the management of diabetes in special populations

Diabetes affects roughly 30 million Americans, and is one of the leading causes of disability and mortality. As a result,...

New proton ‘starter’ for optogenetics

Credit: MIPT Press Office Scientists have examined a protein that will find application in optogenetics and could be used to...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities exposed with new DNA sequencing approach

Credit: Louise Egerton-Warburton The roots of most land plants are colonized by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, which help their plant partners...

NYU College of Dentistry’s Yu Zhang awarded nearly $3.7 million by NIH’s NIDCR

Credit: NYU College of Dentistry New York University College of Dentistry (NYU Dentistry) researchers have received two R01 grants from...

Special focus issue: ‘Bioanalysis of biopharmaceuticals’

Bioanalysis, a leading MEDLINE indexed journal for bioanalysts, has published a Special Focus Issue on 'Bioanalysis of Biopharmaceuticals'. The journal...

NASA satellite highlights burn scars in British Columbia

Credit: NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team, GSFC This past summer Canada has been plagued with...

TSRI researchers explore ways that a drug like Avandia can be made safer

Credit: The Scripps Research Institute With the heightened concerns over the dangerous side effects of the once-popular antidiabetic drug Avandia,...

Bloomfield receives Outstanding Clinician-Scientist Award

Columbus, Ohio - Clara D. Bloomfield, MD, Distinguished University Professor, cancer scholar and senior advisor to The Ohio State University...

Molecular fingerprint of breast tumors linked to immune response in bloodstream

Credit: Vanessa Dumeaux Using newly developed software, researchers have shown that genes and molecular processes in breast cancer tumor cells...

Male hormones may promote infection by virus that causes Kaposi’s sarcoma

Credit: Wang X, et al. (2017) Male hormones may facilitate infection with a virus that can cause a type of...

Smart molecules trigger white blood cells to become better cancer-eating machines

Credit: Wang et al. at UC San Diego A team of researchers has engineered smart protein molecules that can reprogram...

Researchers look to protect ‘self-reactive’ immune cells so they can fight melanoma

CHAPEL HILL -- Researchers at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center are using what they know about...

UTHealth’s Jim Zheng awarded $5.8 million CPRIT grant to mine cancer data for cures

Credit: UTHealth In keeping with the shift in cancer research from data generation to data analysis, bioinformatician W. Jim Zheng,...

UTA study says zinc can halt the growth of cancer cells