Biology
Researchers target protein that protects bacteria’s DNA ‘recipes’
Credit: University of Rochester illustration / Elio Abbondanzieri Bacteria cause many serious illnesses, from food poisoning to pneumonia. The challenge...
Bigger proteins, stronger threads: Synthetic spider silk
Credit: Christopher Bowen Spider silk is among the strongest and toughest materials in the natural world, as strong as some...
In the eastern US, adult trees adapt and acclimate to local climate
Credit: Gerad Dean (Millbrook, NY) Trees growing in temperate forests in the eastern US show strong adaptation or acclimation to...
Reliability, learnability and efficiency of two tools for cement crowns retrieval
This research work aims to help other researchers in the field to set up an experimental bench to assess the...
CasPER — a new method for diversification of enzymes
Credit: The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, DTU A new study published in the Metabolic Engineering Journal describes a...
Southern California coast emerges as a toxic algae hot spot
A new, comprehensive survey led by USC scientists shows the Southern California coast harbors some of the world's highest concentrations...
How do muscles know what time it is?
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) How do muscle cells prepare for the particular metabolic challenges...
Switching DNA and RNA on and off
DNA and RNA are naturally polarised molecules containing electric dipole moments due to the presence of a significant number of...
Window into the brain
In collaboration with scientists from the Ioffe Institute, HSE University researchers have developed an ultra-sensitive atomic magnetometric scheme with a...
$120 million gift from The Anschutz Foundation to CU Anschutz
Credit: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. AURORA, Colo. (August 21, 2018) - The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus...
Simple leg exercises could reduce impact of sedentary lifestyle on heart and blood vessels
Credit: Vranish et. al. A sedentary lifestyle can cause an impairment of the transport of blood around the body, which...
What’s behind the retreating kelps and expanding corals?
Credit: Kumagai N.H., et al., PNAS, August 20, 2018 Climate change and other external forces are causing rapid marine community...
Near 2 million acres on fire in the United States
Credit: NOAA The West Coast of the United States is shrouded in smoke from the 110 large fires (this does...
Getting policy right: why fisheries management is plagued by the panacea mindset
Fisheries management has often been characterized by regulatory policies that result in panaceas--broad based policy solutions that are expected to...
Stool proteins to predict inflammatory bowel disease
Credit: University of Houston University of Houston researcher Chandra Mohan is set to make a breakthrough in predicting and monitoring...
Biosensor allows real-time oxygen monitoring for ‘organs-on-a-chip’
Credit: Michael Daniele A new biosensor allows researchers to track oxygen levels in real time in "organ-on-a-chip" systems, making it...
Xiaoji Xu named recipient of prestigious Beckman Young Investigator Award
Credit: Douglas Benedict/Academic Image Xiaoji Xu, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Lehigh University, has been named...
Poor sleep + type 2 diabetes = Slower wound healing
People with Type 2 diabetes who don't sleep well could need more time to heal their wounds, according to a...
California plain shows surprising winners and losers from prolonged drought
Credit: Laura Prugh/University of Washington The Carrizo Plain National Monument is a little-known ecological hotspot in Southern California. Though small,...
The bright ways forests affect their environment
For decades scientists have tried to understand why forests emit the volatile gases that give pine forests their distinctive smell....