Biology
Computer approaches human skill for first time in mapping brain
Credit: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash. - A WSU research team for the first time has developed a computer algorithm...
Two-step process leads to cell immortalization and cancer
A mutation that helps make cells immortal is critical to the development of a tumor, but new research at the...
New terahertz imaging approach could speed up skin cancer detection
Credit: Rayko Stantchev, University of Exeter WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a new terahertz imaging approach that, for the first...
Bacteria stab amoebae with micro-daggers
Credit: Leo Popovich Bacteria have to watch out for amoeba. Hungry amoebae hunt them: they catch them with their pseudopodia...
NASA Ppotects its super heroes from space weather
Credit: NASA/SOHO It's not a bird or a plane but it might be a solar storm. We like to think...
Early Indian Ocean trade routes bring chicken, black rat to eastern Africa
Credit: Photo credit: Mark Horton The earliest introduction of domestic chickens and black rats from Asia to the east coast...
Deep-sea sponges — home to the next generation of antimicrobials?
Marine sponges and the deep-sea ecosystem are comparatively under-studied and under-exploited compared with life in shallower waters - but a...
Smithsonian manatee count informs policy recommendations
Credit: Ana Endara, STRI All three of the world's manatee species are threatened with extinction: the Amazonian Manatee, the African...
SLU biologist receives $480,000 to study singing insects’ serenades
Credit: Ellen Hutti, Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS - Thanks to a recent $480,000 grant from the National Science Foundation...
Energy dense foods may increase cancer risk regardless of obesity status
Credit: C.A. Thomson Philadelphia, PA, August 17, 2017 - Diet is believed to play a role in cancer risk. Current...
Smells like queen spirit
Credit: JUERGEN LIEBIG RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- Queen ants spend most of their time having babies. To reign supreme in...
New gene catalog of ocean microbiome reveals surprises
Credit: HOT Program, UHM SOEST Microbes dominate the planet, especially the ocean, and help support the entire marine food web....
Federal snack program does not yield expected impacts, Virginia Tech researchers find
Credit: Virginia Tech A well-intentioned government regulation designed to offer healthier options in school vending machines has failed to instill...
Scientists compare soil microbes in no-till, conventional tilling systems of Pacific Northwest farms
Credit: The American Phytopathological Society St. Paul, Minn. (August 2017)--In recent decades, growers have increasingly been adopting no-till farming to...
Agroindustrial waste can be used as material for housing and infrastructure
Converting waste into resources, substituting toxic raw materials for healthy inputs, migrating from harmful to sustainable production processes. These are...
Wistar scientists develop novel immunotherapy technology for prostate cancer
PHILADELPHIA -- (Aug. 17, 2017) -- A study led by scientists at The Wistar Institute describes a novel immunotherapeutic strategy...
Slowing dangerous bacteria may be more effective than killing them, researchers report
Credit: Illustration by Jennifer Oosthuizen, CDC CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered a mechanism that...
The laws of attraction: Pheromones don’t lie, fruit fly research suggests
Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Life as a fruit fly seems pretty simple: Hatch, grow, eat some...
Managing western flower thrips
Pesticide evaluation is an important aspect of agricultural research providing useful information to farmers and professionals involved in the pesticide...
Peroxisomes identified as ‘fighters’ in the battle against bacterial infections
Credit: Melissa Fabrizio A new addition to the fight against bacteria comes in the unlikely form of an organelle that...
