Biology
Help from the stomach for dry eyes
Credit: Benjamin Winkeljann / Technical University of Munich After a long day of working at the computer, scratchy contact lenses...
Brown to lead ‘NeuroNex’ center for creating bioluminescent neuroscience tools
Credit: Nathan Shaner PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With up to $9.2 million in funding over five years from the National Science...
Salk’s Reuben Shaw receives National Cancer Institute Outstanding Investigator Award
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA -- (Aug. 1, 2017) Salk Professor Reuben Shaw has received the National Cancer Institute (NCI)...
Exercise incentives do little to spur gym-going, study shows
Credit: CWRU Even among people who had just joined a gym and expected to visit regularly, getting paid to exercise...
Into a competitive world, guppies are born not just bigger, but more mature
Credit: Terry Dial PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Throughout nature, moms engage in a trade-off: Churn out a bevy of offspring and...
Research at University of Illinois to investigate oil field biosouring with new technology
Credit: Tom Murphy A new research project at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University...
Lab led by Zhe Han, Ph.D., receives $1.75 million from NIH to continue pioneering research
Credit: Children's National Health System The National Institutes of Health has awarded $1.75 million to a research lab led by...
Geologist offers new clues to cause of world’s greatest extinction
A study by a researcher in the Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences offers new clues to what may...
Research on nitric oxide-releasing nanoparticles reveals viable skin infection treatment
WASHINGTON (July 31, 2017) -- George Washington University (GW) researchers have found that topically applied nitric oxide-releasing nanoparticles (NO-np) are...
New system could remove two water pollutants from ag fields
Credit: Laura Christianson URBANA, Ill. - Algae blooms in the Gulf of Mexico use up the majority of the oxygen...
Big data approach can predict toxicity of chemicals, save animals
Delhi -- Experts from across India will gather from July 31 to August 1 at the Indian Institute of Technology...
Scientists discover biomarkers which could lead to better treatments for CF pat
Credit: JD Howell, McMaster University Researchers have identified two new biological markers of cystic fibrosis (CF), a genetic disease which...
Leaf beetles: Even a tiny dose of pesticide will impair reproduction
Credit: Photo: Bielefeld University One finding is that leaf beetles lay roughly 35 per cent fewer eggs after coming into...
Beware doping athletes! This sensor may be your downfall
Credit: University at Buffalo. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Scientists searching for traces of drugs, bomb-making components and other chemicals often shine...
Study reinforces the Amazon forest’s importance in regulating atmospheric chemistry
Credit: photo: GOAmazon Airborne measurements made as part of the Green Ocean Amazon experiment (GOAmazon) show that the Amazon rainforest...
Toward a better sweat test for babies with cystic fibrosis
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an incurable genetic disease in which patients have chronic lung infections. The sooner CF is diagnosed,...
Materials emitted by water pipe-repair method may pose health risks
Credit: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- New research is calling for immediate safeguards and the study of a widely...
Methane-eating microbes may reduce release of gases as Antarctic ice sheets melt
Credit: Reed Scherer GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Lurking in a lake half a mile beneath Antarctica's icy surface, methane-eating microbes may...
Aardvarks’ fate points to worrying consequences for wildlife, due to climate change
Credit: Wits University The aardvark, a highlight for anyone on a game-viewing African safari, will become increasingly rare as the...
Cells that stand in the way of HIV cure: Discovery expands understanding of marrow’s role
Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Every day, 17 million HIV-infected people around the world swallow pills that...
