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Newly established Bulgarian Barcode of Life to support biodiversity conservation in the country
On 27 September 2023, during a specialised symposium on DNA barcoding at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Bulgarian Barcode...
Enhancing the efficiency of plant regeneration
Crop modification can be traced to the beginning of agriculture and human civilization.Credit: Photo courtesy of Basitaan Bargmann. Crop modification...
Human disease simulator lets scientists choose their own adventure
Imagine a device smaller than a toddler’s shoebox that can simulate any human disease in multiple organs or test new...
Carbon-capture tree plantations threaten tropical biodiversity for little gain, ecologists say
The increasingly urgent climate crisis has led to a boom in commercial tree plantations in an attempt to offset excess...
$10 million award from the Department of Defense will fund pioneering Sensing and Cyber Center of Excellence
The Virginia Tech College of Engineering has received a $10 million, five-year Department of Defense award to fund groundbreaking research...
Lasers deflected using air
Using a novel method, beams of laser light can be deflected using air alone. An invisible grating made only of...
Graphene addition for enhancing the critical current density of Bi-2223 superconductors
Superconductors are materials that offer zero electric resistance to the flow of current on being cooled down below a certain...
Van Andel Institute scientist awarded $2.9 million to tackle insulin resistance, a driver of Type 2 diabetes
Van Andel Institute’s Nick Burton, Ph.D., has earned a five-year, nearly $2.9 million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes...
Marine chemical biologist Mandë Holford wins prestigious National Institutes of Health Pioneer Award for Venom Research
NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2023 — Mandë Holford, a professor in the Chemistry and Biochemistry departments at Hunter College and...
Enlighten me
Kyoto, Japan -- When life gets tough, nature usually finds a way to help the little guys. Credit: KyotoU/Rui Sun Kyoto,...
Emerging drug discovery ecosystems in Virginia
Oak Brook, IL – A Special Issue of SLAS Discovery, Emerging Drug Discovery Ecosystems, is new for September. Volume 28,...
Optimizing continuous-variable functions with quantum annealing
Quantum annealing (QA) is a cutting-edge algorithm that leverages the unique properties of quantum computing to tackle complex combinatorial optimization...
Socioeconomic status and power outages
Communities with more socioeconomic vulnerability experience longer-duration power outages than more advantaged communities, according to a study. Research has shown...
New biobanking partnership safeguards the genetic diversity of America’s endangered species
San Francisco, CA - The nonprofit Revive & Restore announces a groundbreaking new initiative to biobank U.S. endangered species, in...
How floods kill, long after the water has gone – global decade-long study
With New York declared a state of emergency following flash flooding, there is increasing concern such events will become more...
Study uncovers reasons Americans did not get booster vaccines
The paper, “Understanding low bivalent COVID-19 booster uptake among US adults,” was published in the journal Vaccine.Credit: UArizona Health Sciences...
Gut bacteria found in wild wolves may be key to improving domestic dogs’ health
BEND, Ore. – Gut microbes found in wild wolves may be the key to alleviating a debilitating gastrointestinal condition common...
Genomic analysis reveals ancient cancer lineages in clams
Credit: Pacific Northwest Research Institute Journal Nature Cancer DOI 10.1038/s43018-023-00643-7 Method of Research Experimental study Subject of Research Animals Article...
Study reveals high accuracy of MR-guided radiotherapy for intracranial itereotactic radiosurgery
A new study, led by radiation oncology physicists at Miami Cancer Institute, part of Baptist Health South Florida, displayed positive...
Gene expression signatures of human senescent corneal and conjunctival epithelial cells
“ our results from the RNA-Seq experiments show that senescent ocular surface cells, particularly SCj, have abnormal keratin expression patterns...
