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Plant pathology professors receive $1.2 million to study, catalog Fusarium fungi
David Geiser and Seogchan Kang, professors of plant pathology and environmental biology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, received...
Payments to rural communities offer a new opportunity to restore China’s native forests
Credit: Fangyuan Hua Despite massive efforts at reforestation, China's native forests continue to be displaced by plantations. A new study...
Steps toward a promising therapy for a rare bone disease
Credit: Bil Zelman La Jolla, Calif., Aug. 3, 2017 - Patients with multiple hereditary exostoses (MHE)--a rare disease that causes...
Skin-ditching gecko inexplicably leaves body armor behind when threatened
Credit: Image by Paluh et al. in the African Journal of Herpetology GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- When trouble looms, the fish-scale...
Funding for first system to monitor the hidden dangers of ships’ ballast
International shipping is vital to global trade, delivering 90 per cent worldwide. It is estimated that between five to 10...
University of Maryland School of Medicine receives grant to develop vaccine
BALTIMORE, MD. - The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) has been awarded a three-year, $2.47 million grant...
New botulinum neurotoxin discovered — potential to treat a number of medical conditions
Credit: Pål Stenmark Botulinum toxins are currently used on more than 80 medical conditions including Muscle spasms, Overactive bladder, Chronic...
Sociologists to explore culture, inequalities, and social inclusion at annual meeting in Montreal
MONTREAL--More than 5,500 sociologists will convene in Montreal this August to explore scientific research relating to social inequality and many...
Humans have been altering tropical forests for at least 45,000 years
Credit: Patrick Roberts The first review of the global impact of humans on tropical forests in the ancient past shows...
New dust sources from a shrinking Salton Sea have negative ecological and health impacts
Credit: NASA. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Scientists at the University of California, Riverside investigating the composition of particulate matter (PM) and...
Discovery points to drugs that would ‘short-circuit’ deadly leukemia
Researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered that survival of a particularly aggressive form of acute myeloid leukemia...
New report gives methods for developing dietary reference intakes based on chronic disease
WASHINGTON - A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine outlines how to examine whether specific...
Forensic entomologist unearths Chinese migrant fly in Europe
Credit: University of Huddersfield AN insect that was once found mainly in China and in South America has begun to...
NSF EPSCoR awards new projects
Credit: University Communication / University of Nebraska-Lincoln The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made eight awards totaling $41.7 million for...
Goldschmidt — the world’s major geochemistry conference
The Goldschmidt conference, the world's biggest and most important geochemistry conference, takes place in Paris from 13 to 18 August....
Fast, noninvasive technique for probing cells may reveal disease
The stiffness or elasticity of a cell can reveal much about whether the cell is healthy or diseased. Cancer cells,...
Study finds climate plays role in decline of one of Asia’s most critical water resources
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Climate variability -- rather than the presence of a major dam -- is...
The Oriental eye fly that transmits conjunctivitis newly recorded in China
Credit: Dr. Xiaoyan Liu The conjunctivitis-transmitting Oriental eye fly (Siphunculina funicola) has been recorded for the first time in China....
DNA provides new insights on the control of invasive Russian knapweed
Credit: Jeffrey L. Littlefield. A recent study featured in the journal Invasive Plant Science and Management sheds new light on...
NIH scientists track Zika virus transmission in mice
National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists have developed a mouse model to study Zika virus transmitted sexually from males to...
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