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Play-doh helps plant research
Credit: Monica Moriak When plants are in distress or being fed on by insects, they have been known to send...
Long-term efficacy of AAV5-based gene therapy to treat day blind sheep with achromatopsia
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A study of a large animal model of achromatopsia caused by a mutation in...
Effective material developed to prevent post-surgical adhesion
(a) The live cells outside the 1 μL dot of PEC indicate that the material does not create a toxic...
Taking a deep look: a near infrared fluorescent dye for long term bioimaging
Credit: ITbM, Nagoya University A team of researchers at Nagoya University, RIKEN and Ehime University has succeeded in developing a...
Arctic seabird populations respond to climate change
Seabirds such as gulls can be key indicators of environmental change as their populations respond to shifts in their ocean...
3-D inks that can be erased selectively
Credit: Nature Communications 3D printing by direct laser writing enables production of micro-meter-sized structures for many applications, from biomedicine to...
NUS study: RUNX proteins act as regulators in DNA repair
Credit: National University of Singapore A study by researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the...
New research predicts landslide boundaries two weeks before they happen
University of Melbourne researchers have developed a software tool that uses applied mathematics and big data analytics to predict the...
Penn Medicine’s Carl June Receives 2018 Albany Prize
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Carl June, MD, a gene therapy pioneer at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University...
Rosenberg, NCI-supported researchers to receive 2018 Albany Prize
Credit: Rhoda Baer Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., of the Center for Cancer Research (CCR) at the National Cancer Institute...
OU study shows effects of climate warming in tallgrass prairie ecosystem
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma professor, Jizhong Zhou, and his team have completed a new study on...
Models give synthetic biologists a head start
Credit: Illustration by David Zong/Rice University HOUSTON - (Aug. 14, 2018) - Synthetic biologists have the tools to build complex,...
Natural refrigerant replacements could reduce energy costs and conserve the environment
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 14, 2018 -- The 1987 Montreal Protocol and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol called for countries around the...
Light-engineered bacterial shapes could hold key to future labs-on-a-chip
Credit: Frangipane et al., 2018 Scientists have used light patterns to control the swimming speed of bacteria and direct them...
NSF awards grant to Portland State for state-of-the-art instrument
Portland State University investigators from the Departments of Chemistry and Biology have received a $350,000 grant from the National Science...
Substances associated with bee ferocity are discovered
Credit: Iago Bueno da Silva / UNESP Brazilian researchers may have discovered why Africanized honeybees are so aggressive. The scientists...
Scientists get new tool to track new pathogen killing frogs
Credit: University of Central Florida An undergraduate researcher has developed a method to screen frogs for an infectious disease that...
Snake fungal disease alters skin microbiome in eastern Massasaugas
Credit: Photo by Michael Dreslik In the first study of its kind, researchers characterized the skin microbiome of a population...
Lipid droplets play crucial roles beyond fat storage
Credit: University of Rochester image / Zhihuan Li Lipid droplets: they were long thought of merely as the formless blobs...
Research brief: UMN researchers use green gold to rapidly detect and identify harmful bacteria
Researchers from the University of Minnesota (UMN) have developed a method to screen and identify harmful or antibiotic-resistant bacteria within...
