Biology

Multiple sclerosis can be inhibited or reversed using a novel gene therapy technique that stops the disease's immune response in...

Researchers discover new cattle disease and prevent it from spreading

Within Danish cattle breeding the semen of one breeding bull is used to inseminate a lot of cows. Due to...

Drug combination may improve impact of immunotherapy in head and neck cancer

Credit: UC San Diego Health Checkpoint inhibitor-based immunotherapy has been shown to be very effective in recurrent and metastatic head...

NSF awards Indiana University $4 million to advance medical nanotechnology

Credit: Image courtesy of the Vikram Jadhao Lab Only a year after establishing the intelligent systems engineering program in the...

10,000 year-old DNA proves when fish colonialized our lakes

DNA in lake sediment forms a natural archive displaying when various fish species colonized lakes after the glacial period. This...

Real or fake? Creating fingers to protect identities

Credit: Michigan State University Do you know how safe it is to use your finger as a security login? And...

3-D analysis of dog fossils sheds light on domestication debate

ITHACA, N.Y. - In an effort to settle the debate about the origin of dog domestication, a technique that uses...

Plant physiology: Adjusting to fluctuating temperatures

Later leaf emergence, earlier leaf loss: A new study of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich shows that the average vegetation periods...

Scientists find cellular backup plan for keeping iron levels just right

Iron is essential for cells to function, but excess iron can damage cells. Accordingly, cells have sophisticated molecular mechanisms to...

Researchers stumped by plants with multiple chromosomes set January meeting to collaborate

Credit: (Texas A&M AgriLife Research photo by Kathleen Phillips) Some of the world's most beloved plants -- coffee, bananas, potatoes,...

Small intestine permeable peptides facilitate digestive tract absorption

Credit: Professor Sumio Ohtsuki Biopharmaceuticals, medium- and high-molecular weight biologically active macromolecules, are not easily absorbed by the small intestine,...

Sandia Labs wins 5 regional technology transfer awards

Credit: Sandia National Laboratories/Randy Wong ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories won five awards from the 2017 Federal Laboratory Consortium...

MDI Biological Laboratory study finds immune system is critical to regeneration

Credit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE -- The answer to regenerative medicine's most compelling question -- why some organisms...

Test for safe CO2 storage to aid world-leading technology project

A new method that inexpensively monitors the safe storage of industrial greenhouse gas emissions is to be used by a...

Using AI, citizen science and disaster response to help victims of Hurricane Irma

A highly unusual collaboration between information engineers at Oxford, the Zooniverse citizen science platform and international disaster response organization Rescue...

Protected waters foster resurgence of West Coast rockfish

Credit: Advanced Survey Technologies, Fisheries Resources Division, NOAA Fisheries/Southwest Fisheries Science Center West Coast rockfish species in deep collapse only...

Bite force research reveals dinosaur-eating frog

Credit: Kristopher Lappin Scientists say that a large, now extinct, frog called Beelzebufo that lived about 68 million years ago...

Research provides clues to treat depression, autism and other neuropsychiatric disorders

Credit: Florida Atlantic University Alterations in a naturally occurring chemical in the brain called serotonin have been linked to a...

Shedding light on brain activity