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October 20, 2025

Fight or flight response may hinge on protein in skeletal muscular system

University of Cincinnati researchers hope to advance the understanding of skeletal muscular disordersCredit: Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati Researchers at the...

Inhibitory effect of strawberry geranium on inflammatory response in skin keratinocytes

Credit: Maruzen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd Strawberry geranium (Saxifraga stolonifera) has been used in Japan as a herbal medicine to treat...

Red Sea is no longer a baby ocean

Hidden structures reveal 13 million years of seafloor spreadingCredit: GEOMAR It is 2,250 kilometers long, but only 355 kilometers wide...

Engineering single-molecule fluorescence with asymmetric nano-antennas

Credit: by Wenqi Zhao, Xiaochaoran Tian, Zhening Fang, Shiyi Xiao, Meng Qiu, Qiong He, Wei Feng, Fuyou Li, Yuanbo Zhang,...

Recreating the earliest stages of life

Scientists generate synthetic mouse embryos containing the three fundamental cell types normally found in pre-implantation embryosCredit: Gladstone Institutes SAN FRANCISCO,...

Patching up your health

Researchers at Osaka University and JOANNEUM RESEARCH develop ultrathin self-powered e-health patches that can monitor a user's pulse and blood...

Climate-friendly microbes chomp dead plants without releasing heat-trapping methane

Credit: Jian-Yu Jiao/Sun Yat-Sen University The tree of life just got a little bigger: A team of scientists from the...

Successful research development approach helps cancer patients using mobile tech

Research sustainability at the UVA Center for Engineering in MedicineCredit: Dan Addison for UVA Communications, contributed photo from UVA Health...

Army-funded research paves way for improved lasers, communications

Credit: Courtesy University of Pennsylvania RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- New photonics research paves the way for improved lasers, high-speed...

Silver ions hurry up, then wait as they disperse

Rice chemists show ions' staged release from gold-silver nanoparticles could be useful propertyCredit: Rice University HOUSTON - (April 22, 2021)...

C-Path opens access to Duchenne Regulatory Science Consortium database

Database will allow sharing of individual-level data with the goal of accelerating therapy development for Duchenne muscular dystrophyCredit: C-Path TUCSON,...

Ancient Indigenous forest gardens promote a healthy ecosystem: SFU study

The researchers say this study marks the first time forest gardens have been studied in North AmericaCredit: SFU A new...

Study paves the way for new photosensitive materials

Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University Photocatalysts are useful materials, with a myriad of environmental and energy applications,...

Hungry fruit flies are extreme ultramarathon fliers

In search of food, a fly can travel six million times its body lengthCredit: Floris van Breugel In 2005, an...

Serious play: Tablet-based video games may help people with mild cognitive impairment

UMass Amherst researcher awarded NIH grant to measure effects of mobile game-playingCredit: UMass Amherst A University of Massachusetts Amherst biomedical...

MERS DNA vaccine induces immunity, protects from virus challenge in preclinical model

Dose-sparing regimens and intradermal delivery have important implication for rapid clinical development of effective, well-tolerated and easy-to-distribute vaccines against MERS...

Little crop of horrors

With genes from carnivorous plants, researchers aim to grow hardier crop plantsCredit: Tanya Renner, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. --...

Why the human body has not evolved to make childbirth easier — or has it?

Credit: The University of Texas at Austin. AUSTIN, Texas -- Despite advances in medicine and technology, childbirth isn't likely to...

Scientists uncover structure of light-driven enzyme with potential biofuel applications

Derived from microscopic algae, the enzyme converts fatty acids into starting ingredients for solvents and fuelsCredit: Damien Sorigue/Universite Aix-Marseille Although...

University, city mark Earth Day with grants for ‘green’ projects