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How plants compensate symbiotic microbes
Credit: Courtesy of the Peay Lab/Brian Steidinger "Equal pay for equal work," a motto touted by many people, turns out...
NASA space lasers map meltwater lakes in Antarctica with striking precision
Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Dr. Kelly Brunt From above, the Antarctic Ice Sheet might look like a calm,...
Banishing cigarettes into history’s ashcan
New grant expands Texas tobacco program, targets substance use patients in rural communitiesCredit: University of Houston In Texas, only 14%...
Discovery shows how tuning the immune system may enhance vaccines and ease disease
A metabolic control pathway that regulates T follicular helper cells offers targets for drugs to stimulate the adaptive immune responseCredit:...
Tiny tools: Controlling individual water droplets as biochemical reactors
Scientists develop a method to better manipulate tiny droplets in lab-on-a-chip applications for biochemistry, cell culturing, and drug screeningCredit: Ritsumeikan...
SMU professor awarded NSF grant for models to better aid evacuees after natural disasters
'We can do better with a systems approach...instead of catching up after each hurricane'Credit: SMU (Southern Methodist University) DALLAS (SMU)...
Research paves the way to early diagnosis of diabetic neuropathy
Diabetics exert less force to hold an object than people with other diseases that affect the nervous system. Grip force...
How to reduce obesity among Latino children, with precision
UC San Diego and community collaborators receive $3 million grant to develop more community-centered, precision approaches to reducing adverse childhood...
Arctic seabirds are less heat tolerant, more vulnerable to climate change
Arctic species poorly adapted for coping with rising temperatures as the Arctic continues to warmCredit: Douglas Noblet The Arctic is...
CWRU receives $1.2M W.M. Keck Foundation grant to determine ecological factors affect the evolution of our ancestors
Professor Beverly Saylor leads interdisciplinary global group applying state-of-the art technology to answer ancient questionsCredit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND,...
Researchers detail the most ancient bat fossil ever discovered in Asia
Credit: Matthew Jones LAWRENCE -- A new paper appearing in Biology Letters describes the oldest-known fragmentary bat fossils from Asia,...
Change in respiratory care strategies for preterm infants improves health outcomes
Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center A decade's worth of data shows that neonatologists are shifting the type of respiratory support...
Diversification in supply chain crucial to avoid ‘food shock’ in cities
Credit: Michael Gomez, Penn State Diversification in the sourcing of food into cities can go a long way to tempering...
Researcher selected for prestigious global fellowship on artificial intelligence
Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS -- Regenstrief research scientist and Indiana University School of Medicine faculty member Suranga Kasthurirathne, PhD, has...
Molecular imaging improves staging and treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas
Credit: Image created by M Röhrich, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany. Reston, VA--For patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDAC), molecular imaging...
New study helps explain ‘silent earthquakes’ along New Zealand’s North Island
Seamounts offer clue to solving a tectonic puzzleCredit: Christine Chesley, using GeoMapApp and data from William Ryan et al., Geochemistry,...
Igniting plasmas in liquids
This is how a nanosecond plasma forms and spreads in water via tunnel effectsCredit: © Damian Gorczany Physicists of Ruhr-Universität...
Gene therapy in early stages of Huntington’s disease may slow down symptom progression
Credit: Wenzhen Duan, M.D., Ph.D. In a new study on mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that using MRI scans...
The reproductive advantages of large male fish
Bielefeld University researchers publish systematic review and meta-analysis on mosquitofishCredit: Photo: Andrew Kahn In mosquitofish, of the genus Gambusia, male...
Researchers clarify reasons for low rate of employment among people with disabilities
Understanding the diverse issues that prevent people with disabilities from seeking work is integral to developing effective and responsive interventions,...
