Biology
Commandeering microbes pave way for synthetic biology in military environments
Credit: US Army Graphic by Autumn Kulaga ADELPHI, Md. -- A team of scientists from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory...
Yongxin Zhao receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Yongxin (Leon) Zhao, assistant professor of biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University has received a National...
NHGRI Scientific Director Dan Kastner named 2018 Federal Employee of the Year
Credit: Braun Film and Video, Inc Daniel Kastner, M.D., Ph.D., scientific director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI),...
Single atoms break carbon’s strongest bond
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory An international team of scientists including researchers at Yale University and the U.S. Department of Energy's...
How the African elephant cracked its skin to cool off
Credit: Michel Milinkovitch An intricate network of minuscule crevices adorns the skin surface of the African bush elephant. By retaining...
Cross-cutting issues in environmental quality and agriculture symposium
Farmers and agronomists must continue to focus on yield when creating their management plans, as the world's population keeps growing....
Studded winter tires cost more lives than they save
Credit: Ilya Plekhanov Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have now shown that studded winter tyres cost more lives...
UM researchers publish discoveries on antibiotic resistance
Credit: Courtesy of Patrick Secor MISSOULA - University of Montana researchers recently published their new insights into how pathogenic bacteria...
‘Spacesuits’ protect microbes destined to live in space
Credit: Peidong Yang lab, UC Berkeley Just as spacesuits help astronauts survive in inhospitable environments, newly developed "spacesuits" for bacteria...
CRISPR tames the wild groundcherry
ITHACA, NY - You might not have heard of the groundcherry, or at least, never tasted one. But that could...
New tool developed at Brown will aid in understanding brain signals
Credit: Nick Dentamaro/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The human brain contains about 90 billion neurons, but Stephanie Jones, an associate...
Finding middle ground on the range
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- Cattle ranching and conservation may seem an unusual pair in the American West, but new research...
‘Turbocharging’ photosynthesis in corn hikes yield
ITHACA, N.Y.- Scientists from the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) and Cornell University have boosted a carbon-craving enzyme called RuBisCO to...
Stanford students deploy machine learning to aid environmental monitoring
Credit: NASA As Hurricane Florence ground its way through North Carolina, it released what might politely be called an excrement...
Expert: Keep up with latest discoveries through automated updates in reporting genetic test results
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Maybe the genetic test report your doctor ordered says your DNA contains many "variants of...
Super-resolution microscopy builds multicolor 3D from 2D
Credit: Christian Sieben/EPFL Super-resolution microscopy is a technique that can "see" beyond the diffraction limit of light. The technique has...
Delayed pregnancy — heart health risks for moms and sons, study shows
Knoxville, Tenn. (October 1, 2018)--Delaying pregnancy may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in both women and their children, with...
Exercise helps bones, but not metabolism, in ovarian function loss
Knoxville, Tenn. (October 1, 2018)--Exercise may reduce the risk of osteoporosis associated with the loss of ovarian function, but fitness...
Pioneering biologists create a new crop through genome editing
Crops such as wheat and maize have undergone a breeding process lasting thousands of years, in the course of which...
High CO2 levels cause plants to thicken their leaves, could worsen climate change effects
Credit: Abigail Swann Plant scientists have observed that when levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rise, most plants do...
