Biology
Bacteriophages can affect melioidosis disease acquisition
Credit: Elena Khavina/MIPT Press Office An international research team from the University of Leicester from UK, Lomonosov Moscow State University...
The spark that created life
Credit: Monash University Evolution by Darwinian natural selection is immensely powerful - both in nature and within laboratories. Using 'laboratory...
Researchers uncover previously unstudied cancer enzyme
Researchers do not know how all the proteins and enzymes in the human body function, far from it. Now researchers...
Toward an ‘ultra-personalized’ therapy for melanoma
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science With new immunotherapy treatments for melanoma, recovery rates have risen dramatically, in some cases to...
Europe’s renewable energy directive poised to harm global forests
PRINCETON, N.J.--Europe's decision to promote the use of wood as a "renewable fuel" will likely greatly increase Europe's greenhouse gas...
Shedding light on 100-year-old cancer mystery
Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) LA JOLLA, CALIF. - Sept. 12, 2018 - For almost a century,...
End of Colombia conflict may bring new threats to ecosystems
Credit: María Elena Gutiérrez Lagoueyte at Universidad EIA More than 50 years of internal conflict in Colombia have left behind...
Joan A. Steitz receives 2018 Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science
Credit: Brian Ach/AP Images for HHMI The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced today that Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)...
Beetle adapts chemical mimicry to parasitize different bee species
Credit: Photo by Leslie Saul-Gershenz) A beetle that tricks bees into carrying it into their nests where it can live...
Coral bleaching increases disease risk in threatened species
Credit: Conor Goulding/Mote Marine Laboratory Bleaching events caused by rising water temperatures could increase mortality among a coral species already...
Natural mechanism could lower emissions from tropical peatlands
Credit: Duke Univ. DURHAM, N.C. -- Scientists have long feared that as Earth warms, tropical peatlands -- which store up...
Folding poisons
Credit: Source: Klaus Aktories Treating bacterial infections with antibiotics often kills intestinal flora, leading to diarrhoea and inflammation of the...
Understanding 6th-century barbarian social organization & migration through paleogenomics
Credit: Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la Città Metropolitana di Torino Applying a comprehensive analysis of genetic, historical,...
UBC breakthrough opens door to $100 ultrasound machine
Credit: University of British Columbia Engineers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new ultrasound transducer, or probe,...
Barriers and opportunities in renewable biofuels production
Credit: Martina Butorac/Chalmers University of Technology Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable...
Engrafted stem cell-derived lung organoids that model human lung development
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 10, 2018-Researchers have now grown lung organoids from human embryonic...
Research devises protocol for measuring distances within biomolecules
Credit: Clemson University Relations CLEMSON, South Carolina -- Architects cannot build a house without the proper dimensions of the foundation....
Carbon nanodots do an ultrafine job with in vitro lung tissue
Credit: Estelle Durantie and Hana Barosova WASHINGTON, D.C., September 11, 2018 -- Epidemiological studies have established a strong correlation between...
Prenatal exposure to cannabis impacts sociability of male offspring only
Taking cannabinoids during pregnancy can cause behavioural and neuronal deficits in adult male offspring, while females remain unaffected, says new...
Pain response in babies’ brains controlled in ‘similar way to adults’
Researchers from the Department of Paediatrics and Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging at the University of Oxford, UK, have identified...
