Biology
Virus-derived expression vectors as gene therapy vehicles
Even as new viruses are being identified, the emerging field of virus discovery, identification of their nucleotide sequences, gene expression...
Surveying sea floor animals for offshore renewable energy
CORVALLIS, Ore. - There is growing interest in developing offshore wind and wave energy facilities in the Pacific Northwest. But...
Role of cooperativity in hydrophobic interactions revealed in real-time monitoring
Credit: Department of Chemistry, HKUST Hydrophobic interactions is one major type of intermolecular force that plays a vital role in...
New ways to create and deliver medications for immune-medicated neuropathies
Researchers at LSTM are looking at new ways to create and deliver medications for a wide range of immune-medicated neuropathies,...
CNIC scientists discover an essential mechanism in the immune response
Credit: CNIC Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) have discovered that the transcriptional regulator CTCF...
Smelling your food makes you fat
Credit: Céline Riera & Andrew Dillin, UC Berkeley Our sense of smell is key to the enjoyment of food, so...
Marine parasites: Different strokes for different folks
Credit: C. Nagler, LMU Munich The bigger the host, the better for its guests. That certainly holds for parasitic barnacles....
One-step protein purification achieves high yields, purity and activity
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A novel method to improve the high-yield, high-purity, high-activity purification of complex proteins by 10-...
Global erosivity map shows differences between climatic regions
Soil is our most important source of food. And yet, much of the world's soils are being eroded faster than...
Krill hotspot fuels incredible biodiversity in Antarctic region
CORVALLIS, Ore. - There are so many Antarctic krill in the Southern Ocean that the combined mass of these tiny...
Mothers with history of herpes can protect their offspring from neurological infection
WASHINGTON, DC - July 5, 2017 - Pregnant women with a previous history of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1)...
Saving the paintbrush lily from extinction
Credit: Stefan Els A major effort is underway to conserve the last remaining 60 individual paintbrush lilies (Haemanthus pumilio) in...
Kinect scan of T. rex skull addresses paleontological mystery
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers Last year, a team of forensic dentists got authorization to perform a 3-D scan of...
Study sheds light on new Lyme disease-causing bacteria
Annapolis, MD; July 5, 2017--A new species of bacteria that causes Lyme disease needs the same amount of time for...
Remote Amazonian cities more vulnerable to climate change
Credit: Luke Parry Amazonians living in remote cities are more vulnerable to flooding and droughts than more accessible centres, researchers...
Hot imagery of wintering bats suggests group behavior for battling white-nose syndrome
Credit: Paul Cryan, USGS. Public domain Hot new imagery from temperature-sensing cameras suggests that bats who warm up from hibernation...
Gut bacteria can help to predict how the body will respond to fatty foods
Chemical signatures from gut bacteria which show up in urine can be used to predict how the body will respond...
The big ecological roles of small natural features
Orono, Maine -- Ecologists and conservationists have long recognized that keystone species have major ecological importance disproportionate to their abundance...
The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group announces Allen Discovery Center at UW Medicine
Credit: Jay Shendure The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group announced today the creation of an Allen Discovery Center for Cell...
To treat or not to treat
It's a mark on your skin you've never noticed before. It's a spot with irregular borders, or a mole that...
