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New invasive bryozoan arrives in Alaskan waters
Credit: Melissa Frey, Royal BC Museum, Canada Alaska has a near-pristine marine ecosystem--it has fewer invasive species in its waters...
UCI awarded $3.4 million ‘Cancer Moonshot’ grant to study potential breakthrough in cancer
Credit: University of California, Irvine Irvine, Calif. - September 27, 2018 - UCI School of Medicine researchers have been awarded...
Amazon mangrove forest stores twice as much carbon per acre as region’s famous rainforest
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Scientists have determined for the first time that Amazon's waterlogged coastal mangrove forests, which are being clear...
Large stretches of coral reefs can be rehabilitated
Credit: Christine Sur/UC Davis Even after being severely damaged by blast fishing and coral mining, coral reefs can be rehabilitated...
Decades in the making — A breakthrough in the hunt for a vaccine against foal pneumonia
A vaccine against deadly foal pneumonia might finally be within reach, thanks to Morris Animal Foundation-funded research conducted at two...
Following the path of chemicals through the soil
Credit: Janne Hansen Maybe the genetic test report your doctor ordered says your DNA contains many "variants of unknown significance."...
How a sleeping cancer awakens and metastasizes
Credit: Egeblad lab, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have...
New gene variants associated with chronic back pain
Chronic back pain is the number one cause of years lived with disability worldwide. In a new study, Pradeep Suri...
New study hints at potential antibiotic breakthrough
The rapid emergence and global spread of antibiotic resistance demands a new approach for developing novel ones. A study published...
Aphids use sight to avoid deadly bacteria, could lead to pest control
Pea aphids - a serious agricultural pest - have the ability to see and avoid a common, aphid-killing bacteria on...
‘Cellular memory’ of DNA damage in oocyte quality control
Credit: Huanyu Qiao and Neil Hunter, UC Davis Females are born with a finite number of eggs that are steadily...
Researchers find how Natural Killer cells regulate protective HIV antibodies
DURHAM, N.C. - In the quest to develop a vaccine that triggers the immune system to prevent HIV infection, researchers...
Ledumahadi mafube — South Africa’s new jurassic giant
Credit: Copyright Viktor Radermacher A new species of a giant dinosaur has been found in South Africa's Free State Province....
Why a ‘cuckoo in the nest’ can go undetected
Credit: Professor William Foster, University of Cambridge Researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Cambridge have shed light on why...
Well established theories on patterns in evolution might be wrong
How do the large-scale patterns we observe in evolution arise? A new paper in the journal Evolution by researchers at...
Excellence funding for Inequality and Collective Behaviour cluster initiatives in Konstanz
Fantastic news for the University of Konstanz: Two of its three cluster initiatives will receive funding through the German Excellence...
Scientists propose a new model for the specialization of cells
Mathematicians at the Higher School of Economics have developed a model that explains how cell specialization arises in the context...
One hundred percent success
Credit: Photo: Jürgen Gocke It is a major boost to cutting-edge research in Freiburg: in the current Excellence Strategy competition,...
Jena’s research cluster ‘Balance of the Microverse’ to be funded in the Excellence Strategy
Credit: (Source: Sandor Nietzsche, Susanne Linde/EMZ Jena; photo edited by: Mario Kapitan) Jena (27 September 2018) The Friedrich Schiller University...
DNA vaccine targets family of tumor antigens & shows promise for cancer immunotherapy
PHILADELPHIA -- (Sept. 27, 2018) -- Scientists at The Wistar Institute have implemented a novel structurally designed synthetic DNA vaccine...
