Biology
Chemists perform surgery on nanoparticles
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University A team of chemists led by Carnegie Mellon University's Rongchao Jin has for the first time...
Healthy diet? That depends on your genes
ITHACA, N.Y. - A recently published Cornell University study describes how shifts in the diets of Europeans after the introduction...
Metastatic breast cancer cells use hedgehog to ‘evilize’ docile neighbors
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in Nature Communications shows that...
Artificial cartilage under tension as strong as natural material
Credit: Athanasiou lab, UC Davis Biomedical engineers at the University of California, Davis, have created a lab-grown tissue similar to...
OSU researcher part of $14 million NSF program for improved genomic tools
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Coral researcher Virginia Weis of Oregon State University is one of eight researchers selected for a new...
Tuning into the channel
Credit: ERIK JEPSEN/UC SAN DIEGO PUBLICATIONS The Santa Barbara Channel is one of the most productive ecosystems in the world,...
Study sheds new light on inherited testicular cancer risk
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - An analysis of data from five major studies of testicular cancer has identified new genetic...
Researchers find glass eels use internal compass to find their way home
Credit: Institute of Marine Research MIAMI--Scientists are closer to unraveling the long-standing mystery of how tiny glass eel larvae, which...
Can a single exercise session benefit your brain?
Credit: Henriette van Praag (photo on left); MarathonFoto (photo on right). Amsterdam, NL, June 12, 2017 -In a new review...
Rattling DNA hustles transcribers to targets
Credit: Georgia Tech / Edmond Chow / Jeffrey Skolnick Imagine if a dense thicket didn't obstruct your path but instead...
Lianas stifle tree fruit and seed production in tropical forests
Credit: STRI archives Woody vines, known as lianas, compete intensely with trees and their numbers are on the rise in...
Short regulatory gene spotted
An epigenetic mechanism regulating gene activity has been revealed by a KAUST-led international team of researchers investigating interactions between the...
A changing climate affects plankton populations
Credit: © 2016 J.M. Gasol Bacterial and archaeal plankton, as the most abundant form of life in the oceans, profoundly...
Fasting glucose as a marker for greater weight loss on a high-fiber, low-glycemic diet
SAN DIEGO and BOSTON (June 11, 2017, 3:00 ET) -- Researchers from the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center...
Joanna S. Fowler, PhD, receives SNMMI 2017 Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award
Credit: SNMMI DENVER, Colo. - Joanna S. Fowler, PhD, senior chemist emeritus of the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory...
Short duration of breastfeeding and maternal obesity linked to fatty liver in adolescents
Credit: Journal of Hepatology Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 12, 2017 - Infants who were breastfed for less than six months...
Journal AAS publishes first data description paper: Data collection and sharing
Credit: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences Scientific data isn't useful in isolation. So Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (AAS) is helping bridge...
Infants born preterm may lack key lung cells later in life
Mice born into an oxygen-rich environment respond worse to the flu once fully grown due to an absence of certain...
Chemists brought mixed folded proteins to life
Scientists from ITMO University in Saint Petersburg and Hebrew University in Jerusalem have found a way to recover a protein...
Removal of aging cells could extend human life
Credit: UNIST A recent study, led by an international team of researchers confirms that targeted removal of senescent cells (SnCs),...
