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Fire ant venom compounds may lead to skin treatments
Credit: From Arbiser et al Scientific Reports (2017). Compounds derived from fire ant venom can reduce skin thickening and inflammation...
Georgetown hosts global health security expert Beth Cameron
WASHINGTON (Sept. 11, 2017) - Georgetown University's Center for Global Health Science and Security and the Georgetown Global Health Initiative...
UAlberta chemist creates next generation of neuroscience tools
UAlberta chemistry professor Robert Campbell is developing new ways to see and manipulate the activity of neurons in the brain,...
New method for monitoring fetal heartbeat
Researchers have developed a technique to accurately isolate fetal heart sounds from background noise in acoustic recordings, allowing them to...
Scientists construct first predictive model of inflammatory bowel disease
STAMFORD, Conn. & NEW YORK, NY -- September 11, 2017 -- Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount...
Airline industry could fly thousands of miles on biofuel from a new promising feedstock
Credit: Claire Benjamin/University of Illinois A Boeing 747 burns one gallon of jet fuel each second. A recent analysis from...
Brain Composer: ‘Thinking’ melodies onto a musical score
(Graz University of Technology) TU Graz researchers develop new brain-computer interface application which allows music to be composed by the...
Biotech hormone reduces cost of inducing ovulation in livestock
A Brazilian startup called Kimera Biotecnologia, based in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, has produced the first biotech version of equine chorionic...
Study of circular DNA comes full circle with use of old technique
Credit: University of Texas at Dallas A 50-year-old lab technique is helping researchers better understand circular DNA, a lesser-known and...
MSU biologist learned what Przewalski’s horse ate more than a century ago
Credit: Natalia Spasskaya A scientist from the Lomonosov Moscow State University's Faculty of Biology together with her colleagues has explained...
Toxicologists recommend human cell-based methods to identify asthma-causing chemicals
Credit: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Chemicals that could potentially cause asthma through an immune reaction could be better identified...
Key process to be modernized in production of life-saving drugs, food preservation
Credit: (Purdue University image/Erin Easterling) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A consortium of experts is working to modernize a process that...
A biosensor detects adulteration of horse in beef meat within 1 hour
Credit: Nate Stelner. The identification of horse meat adulterating others as beef meat is possible thanks to an electrochemical biosensor...
How liver cancer develops
Credit: USZ Liver cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related death and represents the fastest rising cancer worldwide. In most...
New book on Prion Biology from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: Carlo Condello, University of California, San Francisco Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) announced...
Desert locusts: New risks in the light of climate change
Credit: © CIRAD - A. Foucart Desert locusts, a pest under close scrutiny Desert locusts are a major pest on...
Crapemyrtle pest to be targeted by $3.3 million grant to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
Credit: (Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service photo by Kathleen Phillips) COLLEGE STATION -- The most popular flowering shrub in the...
Why your ancestors would have aced the long jump
Credit: Photo by Douglas Boyer, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- A 52-million-year-old ankle fossil suggests our prehuman ancestors were high-flying...
Ancient wetlands offer window into climate change
Credit: University of Adelaide Environmental researchers have uncovered a wealth of information about a unique part of Australia that offers...
Springer Nature pioneers charitable incentive system for peer reviewers
Peer reviewers are enabling people in developing countries to access safe drinking water as the result of a collaboration between...
