Biology
Biotech pioneers, Bruce Rittmann and Mark van Loosdrecht, win 2018 Stockholm Water Prize
Credit: Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) By revolutionizing microbiological-based technologies in water and wastewater treatment, Professors Mark van Loosdrecht and...
High-throughput sequencing: DFG establishes four competence centres
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) has approved the establishment of four new competence centres. This was decided by...
Scientists develop tiny tooth-mounted sensors that can track what you eat
Credit: Fio Omenetto, Ph.D., Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (March 22, 2018) - Monitoring in real time what happens in and...
DFG to fund two new research units and one new humanities centre for advanced studies
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) has approved the establishment of two new Research Units and one new Humanities...
Plants really do feed their friends
Credit: Heejung Cho Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have discovered...
Eating pecans had significant effect on biomarkers of heart disease and type 2 diabetes
A new study published in Nutrients shows that eating just 1.5 ounces of pecans - one small handful - every...
Salivaomics: Saliva extracellular RNA (exRNA) and saliva proteome Wiki
Alexandria, VA, USA - The 47th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR), held in conjunction with...
Bacteria eats greenhouse gas with a side of protein
Credit: Amy Rosenzweig Lab, Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. --- With the ability to leech heavy metals from the environment and...
Mobile ‘dual-comb’ device significantly improves methane leak detection
Credit: Stephanie Sizemore and Ian Coddington/NIST Accurately detecting, locating and quantifying leaks of methane, the main component of natural gas...
In a severe childhood neurodegeneration, novel mechanism found
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Neurology researchers investigating a rare but devastating neurological regression in infants have discovered the cause:...
Laser-based system offers continuous monitoring of leaks from oil and gas operations
Credit: Sean Coburn, University of Colorado in Boulder WASHINGTON -- Researchers have conducted the first field tests for a new...
Jaguars and well-managed logging concessions can coexist, say conservationists
Credit: San Diego Zoo Global NEW YORK (March 22, 2018) -- Logging activities in biodiverse forests can have a huge...
Physical disability boosts parenting effort, beetles study shows
Credit: Per Smiseth Animals that carry a physical impediment can work harder to rear their young as a result, a...
Researchers use light to turn yeast into biochemical factories
Credit: Sameer Khan/Fotobuddy Scientists have recently learned how to use light to control specific groups of neurons to better understand...
Microorganisms can escape from a dead end by swimming
Credit: Takuji Ishikawa Although microorganisms are too tiny to be seen by the naked eye, they are distributed all over...
Soybean genomes unmasked
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Approximately 340 million metric tons of soybeans are produced globally each year, with the market for soybeans...
Two-billion-year-old salt rock reveals rise of oxygen in ancient atmosphere
Credit: Photo by Aivo Lepland, Geological Survey of Norway; courtesy of Science/AAAS A 2-billion-year-old chunk of sea salt provides new...
Probing RNA epigenetics and chromatin structures to predict drug resistance in leukemia
Credit: Jason Cheng Drug resistance is a major obstacle to effective treatment for patients with cancer and leukemia. Epigenetic modifying...
KAUST-Leica Microsystems CoE inaugurated
Credit: KAUST 2018 March 12, 2018 - Thuwal, Saudi Arabia: The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and...
Unique communication strategy discovered in stem cell pathway controlling plant growth
Credit: Jackson Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- A team of plant geneticists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL)...