Biology
The thousand-year-old egg (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Mar. 13, 2018 -- Century eggs, or pidan, are a preserved food made by...
Researchers develop spectroscopic thermometer for nanomaterials
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy; photographer Jason Richards OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 13, 2018--A scientific team...
Brown adipose tissue made transparent
Credit: Reber/ TUM Brown adipose tissue has played a key role in prevention research since its presence was first documented...
How to build a better railway — in (almost) every cell in your body
Credit: University of Warwick New work from the University of Warwick shows how a microscopic 'railway' system in our cells...
Digging up the precambrian
Credit: Tatsuo Oji Researchers led by Nagoya University discover penetrative trace fossils from the late Ediacaran of western Mongolia, revealing...
The changing voices of North Atlantic right whales
Researchers have found that right whale calls, much like human voices, change as individuals age. In a study published in...
Bush-crickets could lead to sensors which more accurately mimic true hearing
A new research project which will examine the three steps of hearing in the bush-cricket's ear could lead to improved...
What if we could predict when an athlete was going to be injured?
McLean, Va. (March 12, 2018) - Thousands of athletes showcased their abilities for the world in PyeongChang, South Korea, in...
A robust method to study cancer heterogeneity in liquid biopsy
Credit: Fig. 8 Ferrarini A, Forcato C, Buson G, Tononi P, del Monaco V, Terracciano M, et al. (2018) A...
CRISPR helps find new genetic suspects behind ALS/FTD
Credit: Courtesy of Gitler Lab, Stanford University, CA. NIH-funded researchers at Stanford University used the gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 to...
Nightingale to accelerate personalized medicine by analyzing 40,000 blood samples
Credit: Nightingale Health Ltd. Nightingale Health, the Finnish innovator of an internationally recognized biomarker testing technology for chronic disease screening,...
Stroke research: 32 hits
Researchers have analyzed genetic data from half a million subjects in a search to identify the underlying causes of stroke,...
Study links type of blood pressure medication to increased variability and higher risk of death
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute Two types of blood pressure medications -- alpha blockers and alpha 2 agonist --...
A game changer: Metagenomic clustering powered by supercomputers
Credit: Georgios Pavlopoulos and Nikos Kyrpides, JGI/Berkeley Lab Did you know that the tools used for analyzing relationships between social...
Extracellular vesicles could be personalized drug delivery vehicles
Credit: Xin Zou Creating enough nanovesicles to inexpensively serve as a drug delivery system may be as simple as putting...
Mutating Ebola’s key protein may stop replication
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Researchers may be able to stop the replication of Ebola virus by mutating its most important...
Four kinds of algal toxins found in San Francisco Bay shellfish
Credit: John Negrey Researchers monitoring San Francisco Bay for algal toxins have found a surprising array of different toxins in...
Plants faring worse than monkeys in increasingly patchy forests of Costa Rica
Credit: Laura Bolt TORONTO, ON (Canada) - Cattle ranching, agriculture and other human activities are breaking up Costa Rican forests...
Researchers issue first annual sea-level report cards
Credit: © D. Loftis/VIMS. Researchers at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science are launching new web-based "report cards"...
Humans behind majority of raptor deaths in Ontario, study finds
Credit: Courtesy University of Guelph Human encroachment is the leading cause of death among Ontario's at-risk birds of prey, according...