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Genes in albino orchids may hold clue to mechanism for non-photosynthetic parasites
Credit: Kobe University How do plants give up photosynthesis and become parasites? A research team in Japan are using comprehensive...
Study rewrites the history of corn in corn country
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new study contradicts decades of thought, research and teaching on...
Gut feeling essential for migrating fish
Credit: Jeroen Brijs Why do trout spend so much time in potentially dangerous estuaries before migrating to sea? In a...
Using a simple, scalable method, a material that can be used as a sensor is developed
Credit: Erlantz Lizundia (UPV/EHU) Erlantz Lizundia, a researcher in the UPV/EHU's department of Physical Chemistry and expert in cellulose, started...
Black-hole-powered jets forge fuel for star formation
Credit: B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF) Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a surprising connection between a supermassive...
Optimizing data center placement and network design to strengthen cloud computing
LOS ANGELES - Telecommunication experts estimate the amount of data stored "in the cloud" or in remote data centers around...
Scripps Florida collaboration awarded $3.3 million to develop next-generation breast cancer therapies
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, FL, Feb. 14, 2017 - A pair of scientists from the Florida campus of...
Scalp cooling device may help reduce hair loss for women with breast cancer receiving chemotherapy
Two studies in the February 14 issue of JAMA examine hair loss among women with breast cancer who received scalp...
Cancer survivor and noted physician-scientist Sandra Horning to receive Roth Award
Credit: Genetech Sandra Horning, MD, Chief Medical Officer and executive vice president of global development for Roche and Genentech, a...
Researchers identify new process to raise natural armies of cancer-targeting T lymphocytes
PHOENIX - Mayo Clinic and University of Washington researchers have discovered a new culture method that unlocks the natural fighter...
A new technique for creation of entangled photon states developed
Credit: Egor Kovlakov Members of the Faculty of Physics, the Lomonosov Moscow State University have elaborated a new technique for...
New infusion therapy may help smooth out movement for patients with Parkinson’s
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Feb. 14, 2017) - Constant infusion of a drug now used intermittently to "rescue" patients...
Reactive lignin for reducing the environmental impacts of wood products
Credit: Photo: VTT VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed technology known as "CatLignin" to produce reactive lignin from...
Cultivated scallops populations develop distinct genetic structure
Credit: Photo: Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Belfast The scallop is one of the largest edible molluscs, and gourmets consider it...
NASA to launch Raven to develop autonomous rendezvous capability
Loading video... Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Stuart Snodgrass, producer Launching soon, aboard the 10th SpaceX commercial resupply mission, will...
Lipid nanoparticles for gene therapy
(University of the Basque Country ) 25 years have passed since the publication of the first work on solid lipid...
Kurt Gottfried receives 2016 AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award
Dr. Kurt Gottfried, a recognized leader in the scientific community on missile defense and nuclear terrorism, has been awarded the...
NASA and MIT Collaborate to develop space-based quantum-dot spectrometer
Credit: Credits: NASA/W. Hrybyk A NASA technologist has teamed with the inventor of a new nanotechnology that could transform the...
CIFAR at AAAS: Presentations by Canadian and international researchers
Here are summaries of research to be presented by CIFAR fellows at the 2017 AAAS meeting in Boston, MA from...
Limited evidence that styrene causes cancer
Limited evidence that styrene, a high volume plastics chemical and animal carcinogen, causes cancer in humans In 2011, the styrene,...
