Biology
US ocean observation critical to understanding climate change, but lacks long-term nat. planning
WASHINGTON - The ocean plays a critical role in climate and weather, serving as a massive reservoir of heat and...
How the smallest bacterial pathogens outwit host immune defences by stealth mechanisms
Credit: Institute of Microbiology/Vetmeduni Vienna Mycoplasmas are very simple bacteria. They have a minimalist genome and no protective cell wall....
The end of pneumonia? New vaccine offers hope
Credit: Credit: 'Jones et al., Sci. Adv. 2017;3: e1701797.' BUFFALO, N.Y. -- In 2004, pneumonia killed more than 2 million...
Building new moss factories
For millions of years, plants have been producing highly complex molecules out of simple chemical building blocks, sustainably and cheaply....
BU researchers create tool to measure, control protein aggregation
Credit: Ahmad S. Khalil A common thread ties seemingly unlinked disorders like Alzheimer's disease and type II diabetes together. This...
RANKL expressed by osteocytes has an important role in orthodontic tooth movement
Tokyo Medical and Dental University(TMDU) research team demonstrated that osteocytes have a crucial role in orthodontic tooth movement as the...
Marshall School of Medicine announces program to improve access to diabetes care in WV
Credit: Brian Patton/Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine HUNTINGTON, W.Va.-- The Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of...
How obesity promotes breast cancer
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Obesity leads to the release of cytokines into the bloodstream...
Mountain glaciers shrinking across the West
Credit: David Shean/University of Washington Until recently, glaciers in the United States have been measured in two ways: placing stakes...
Study reveals connection between microbiome and autoimmune disorders
Credit: University of Calgary Many people associate the word "bacteria" with something dirty and disgusting. Dr. Pere Santamaria disagrees. Called...
New function in gene-regulatory protein discovered
Credit: Photo: Eshagh Dorafshan Researchers at Umeå and Stockholm universities in Sweden and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in...
Exploring how herpes simplex virus changes when passed between family members
Credit: Bernard Heymann, Ph.D., NIAMS Laboratory of Structural Biology Research, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National...
Pollution responsible for 16 percent of deaths globally — Lancet Commission report
Simon Fraser University health sciences professor Bruce Lanphear is a Commissioner and author of The Lancet Commission on Pollution and...
US ocean observation critical to understanding climate change, but lacks long-term national planning
WASHINGTON - The ocean plays a critical role in climate and weather, serving as a massive reservoir of heat and...
A surprise new butterflyfish is described from the Philippine ‘twilight zone’ and exhibit
Credit: © 2017 Luiz Rocha and the California Academy of Sciences SAN FRANCISCO (Oct. 19, 2017) -- A newly described...
Launch of the ‘Alliance of Severo Ochoa Centres and Maria de Maeztu Units of Excellence’
Credit: SEIDI The 25 centres and 16 research units accredited with the "Severo Ochoa" and "María de Maeztu" excellence distinctions...
‘Y’ a protein unicorn might matter in glaucoma
Credit: BrightFocus Foundation So unheard of was what researchers discovered in a protein associated with glaucoma that for over two...
Svante Pääbo to receive the 2018 HFSP Nakasone Award
(Human Frontier Science Program) Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany) was the 2018...
NIFA biotechnology grants put science at center of food safety policy
WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 19, 2017 - The science of agriculture grows more complex every year. Today, the U.S. Department of...
Ice stream retreats under a cold climate
Credit: Niels J. Korsgaard Why did the Jakobshavn Isbræ ice stream in West Greenland retreat under a cold climate period...
