Biology
New map may lead to drug development for complex brain disorders, USC researcher says
Credit: Steven Park Just as parents are not the root of all their children's problems, a single gene mutation can't...
Researchers find corn gene conferring resistance to multiple plant leaf diseases
Researchers at North Carolina State University have found a specific gene in corn that appears to be associated with resistance...
Greatest threat to eastern forest birds is habitat loss on wintering grounds
(Cornell University) Human-caused habitat loss looms as the greatest threat to some North American breeding birds. The problem will be...
What do sex in moss and neurons have in common?
Credit: Carlos Ortiz-Ramírez. For many years biologists have wondered why plants have so many genes coding for proteins that are...
New vaccine production could improve flu shot accuracy
Credit: Rebekah Dumm, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- A new way of producing the seasonal flu vaccine could speed up...
Scientists capture first image of major brain receptor in action
Credit: Sobolevsky lab/Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY (July 24, 2017)?Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have captured the...
FSU researcher to help lead $4 million deep-sea exploration study
Credit: Florida State University TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A Florida State University researcher is part of a multidisciplinary team of scientists...
NCI-COG Pediatric MATCH trial to test targeted drugs in childhood cancers
Today investigators at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Children's Oncology Group (COG) announced the opening of enrollment for...
$1.8 million NIH grant to Wayne State to aid in developing improved cholera treatments
DETROIT - The human pathogen Vibrio cholerae - or V. cholerae - causes cholera, an infectious and often fatal disease...
UNC to test therapeutic vaccine in people living with HIV
Credit: David Kinton, UNC School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC - A multidisciplinary research team at the University of North...
Rahul Roychoudhuri awarded prestigious Lister Prize
Credit: Jonathan Lawson The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine has selected Babraham Institute group leader, Dr Rahul Roychoudhuri, to receive...
Could ‘cocktail geoengineering’ save the climate?
Credit: Illustration courtesy of Ken Caldeira. Earth image courtesy of NASA. Geoengineering is a catch-all term that refers to various...
Working around spinal injuries
A new study in rats shows that changes in the brain after spinal cord injury are necessary to restore at...
How can plant science solve the global challenges of the 21st century?
The New Phytologist Trust, in partnership with John Wiley & Sons, is announcing the launch of a new crossdisciplinary Open...
Molecular archaeology
Credit: Photo: Patrick Cabrol Copyrights: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) Using the largest and most informative molecular phylogenetic...
How fear alone can cause animal extinction
Credit: Ian Dworkin Fear alone may contribute to the extinction of animal populations according to a recent study. When scientists...
TPU scientists equip chemical sensors with ‘traps’ to detect toxic substances
Credit: Tomsk Polytechnic University Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University and the University of Chemistry and Technology (Prague, Czech Republic) have...
Receptors for neuron communication in humans vital for reproduction in mosses
Credit: Carlos Ortiz-Ramírez, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Glutamate receptors play a central role in the human nervous system. Scientists estimate...
Algae cultivation technique could advance biofuels
Credit: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University researchers have developed a way to grow algae more efficiently...
The oldest ‘bad boy’ in the world
Credit: (© Evgeny V. Yan/FSU Jena) (Jena, Germany) He's Australian, around half a centimetre long, fairly nondescript, 300 million years...