Biology
Preserving a painter’s legacy with nanomaterials
Paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Johannes Vermeer have been delighting art lovers for years. But it turns...
Abdominal fat secretes novel adipokine promoting insulin resistance and inflammation
Credit: Les Laboratoires Servier, courtesy of Servier Medical Art (), reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 France (CC BY...
International Tree Nut Council study links tree nuts and improved type 2 diabetes health
DAVIS, CA, May 23, 2018 - One of the largest studies to date on nuts and diabetes was published today...
Helping dental retainers and aligners fight off bacteria
Clear, plastic aligners have been growing in popularity as alternatives to bulky, metal braces. And once the teeth are straightened,...
Cultivating cannabis
Not long ago, cannabis growers learned their trade mainly by trial and error, passing along tips to others behind a...
Excess nutrients, coupled with climate change, damage the most highly resilient corals
Over the last 30 years, 50% of the world's coral reefs have suffered significant damage due to climate change and...
Tianjin University makes breakthrough in synthetic genome rearrangement
Credit: © Tianjin University A synthetic biology team at Tianjin University (TJU) has reported new methods and strategies for genome...
Recombinant E. Coli As a biofactory for the biosynthesis of diverse nanomaterials
Credit: KAIST A metabolic research group at KAIST and Chung-Ang University in Korea has developed a recombinant E. coli strain...
Earth’s climate to increase by four degrees by 2084
Credit: Image by Advances in Atmospheric Sciences A collaborative research team from China has published a new analysis that shows...
HHMI bets big on 19 new investigators
Credit: HHMI Beth Shapiro has dug for prehistoric bones in Siberia. Ralph DeBerardinis has improved the lives of kids with...
Skin responsible for greater exposure to carcinogens in barbecue smoke than lungs
With summer coming, it's only a matter of time before the smells and tastes of barbecued foods dominate the neighborhood....
Leg exercise is critical to brain and nervous system health
Groundbreaking research shows that neurological health depends as much on signals sent by the body's large, leg muscles to the...
ESF lists top 10 new species for 2018
Credit: ESF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK -- The large and small, beautiful and bizarre are among the newly discovered animals, plants...
NIST puts the optical microscope under the microscope to achieve atomic accuracy
Credit: NIST Over the last two decades, scientists have discovered that the optical microscope can be used to detect, track...
UTIA research continues to advance biofuels, bioenergy and biobased products
Credit: T. Salvador, courtesy UTIA KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Researchers with the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture continue to be...
UTA bioengineer earns AHA grant to study biomechanical influences on cardiac development
Credit: UT Arlington A University of Texas at Arlington researcher is working to determine which gene expressions affect the development...
Magnesium magnificent for plasmonic applications
Credit: Ringe Group/Rice University Rice University researchers have synthesized and isolated plasmonic magnesium nanoparticles that show all the promise of...
Pigs that digest their nutrients could reduce pork industry’s carbon footprint
Giving pigs the ability to digest more nutrients in their grains could help reduce the pork industry's environmental impact, says...
Malaria-causing parasite manipulates liver cells to survive
When the malaria-causing Plasmodium parasite first slips into the human bloodstream, injected by the bite of an infected mosquito, it...
From a model of fluids to the birth of a new field in computational physics
It may sound like the stuff of fairy tales, but in the 1950s two numerical models initially developed as a...