Biology
TSRI researchers get a lead on how to detect degenerative neurological diseases sooner
Credit: TSRI Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) may have found a way to help doctors diagnose diseases like...
Innovative banana breeding to improve nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa
North Carolina Research Campus - Sept. 26, 2017- Dr. Robert Reid, Research Assistant Professor with UNC Charlotte's Bioinformatics Services Division...
Mini-protein rapid design method opens way to create a new class of drugs
Credit: Randy Carnell/UW Medicine Scientists have created a high-speed method to generate thousands of different, small, stable proteins from scratch...
Preventing Zika from being transmitted to fetus is goal of new NIH grant to Hawaii
New funding awarded to the University of Hawaii (UH) may lead to solution to a compelling dilemma -- a way...
Fuel-cell cars cruise onto the market
Fuel-cell powered cars that emit only water vapor when driven have been in the works for decades, but progress seemed...
New test rapidly diagnoses Zika
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT researchers have developed a paper-based test that can diagnose Zika infection...
University of Hawaii awarded nearly $6.3 million to develop trivalent Ebola vaccine
Credit: Amanda Shell, UH-JABSOM University of Hawaii vaccine researcher Axel Lehrer, PhD, has received a nearly $6.3 million grant to...
Tree-dwelling, coconut-cracking giant rat discovered in Solomon Islands
Credit: Velizar Simeonovski, The Field Museum Remember the movie The Princess Bride, when the characters debate the existence of R.O.U.S.es...
The economic case for climate action in the United States
Credit: See Table Economic losses from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and 76 wildfires in nine Western states, intensified by...
OU research group awarded $10.5 million NIH COBRE grant
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma research team led by Ann West, professor of chemistry and biochemistry in...
Songbird populations may indicate trouble in northwestern forests
Credit: J. Livaudais Populations of many North American songbirds are declining, and in many cases we don't understand why--for example,...
Iron supplements have long-term benefits for low birth-weight babies
Babies classified as low birth weight (under 2.500 grams) are at risk of iron deficiency, which is linked to impaired...
A first look at geographic variation in Gentoo penguin calls
Credit: M. Lynch Vocal communication is central to the lives of many birds, which use sound to attract mates and...
$1.1 million DOE grant will help beef up biofuels through evolutionary approaches
Credit: Photo by G.L. Kohuth EAST LANSING, Mich. - Just as sequencing the human genome has netted major health and...
Cellular ‘message in a bottle’ may provide path to new way of treating disease
Key takeaways: Extracellular vesicle ARMMs carry receptors that allow signaling without direct contact between cells. Researchers hope to engineer ARMMs...
Unlocking the mysteries of memory — and potentially enhancing it
Memory acts like an anchor, reminding us of past experiences that have made us who we are today. Attempts to...
Anxious moms may give clues about how anxiety develops
Moms may be notorious worriers, but babies of anxious mothers may also spend more time focusing on threats in their...
Citizen science can predict butterfly population trends
New research by the University of Kent, Butterfly Conservation and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology shows that citizen scientists...
The benefits & dangers when genetic testing companies partner with orphan drug developers
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 27, 2017-Pharmaceutical companies developing Orphan Drugs are increasingly partnering with...
Olive mill wastewater transformed: From pollutant to bio-fertilizer, biofuel
Olive oil has long been a popular kitchen staple. Yet producing the oil creates a vast stream of wastewater that...
