Science News

September 16, 2025

Mercury is altering gene expression

Credit: © Dartmouth College Electron Microscope Facility, Louisa Howard The mercury found at very low concentrations in water is concentrated...

Eating habits affect skin’s protection against sun

Credit: Knight Cancer Institute DALLAS - Aug. 15, 2017 - Sunbathers may want to avoid midnight snacks before catching some...

Plant-produced polio vaccines could help eradicate age old disease

Credit: Dimond Light Source & Oxford University Plants have been used to produce a new vaccine against poliovirus in what...

Development of nanosensor capable of detecting herbicide and its target enzyme binding

Credit: Fabio L. Leite Due to the increased usage of agrochemicals, especially herbicides, in recent decades, high cumulative levels of...

Compounds in desert creosote bush could treat giardia and ‘brain-eating’ amoeba infections

Researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego and the University of Colorado...

A moth and its flame: Mate selection found to evolve from response to flower odors

For moths, love is literally in the air through the action of pheromones to attract mates. Virgin females release a...

Prematurity leaves distinctive molecular signature in infants’ cerebellum

Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON - Premature birth, which affects one in 10 U.S. babies, is associated with altered...

UMass Amherst Biogeographer leads study on wildfire risk related to invasive grasses

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Invasive plant expert Bethany Bradley at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a...

Artificial blood vessels mimic rare accelerated aging disease

Credit: Progeria Research Foundation DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers have grown miniature human blood vessels that exhibit many of the...

Researcher chosen for American Geophysical Union’s 2017 Class of Fellows

Credit: University of Delaware University of Delaware Prof. Wei-Jun Cai, who has done pioneering work on carbon biogeochemistry in estuaries...

Human intrusion on fruit bat habitats raises exposure risk to Hendra virus in Australia

Credit: James Nilson Reported today in Scientific Reports by researchers from the University of Sydney, University of Melbourne and State...

Why durian is the smelly ‘king of fruits’ (video)

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2017 -- Durian is known as the king of fruits in Southeast...

Older cancer patients rate own physical abilities as better than their caregivers do

Older cancer patients and their caregivers often differ in their assessment of the patient's physical abilities, with caregivers generally rating...

‘Acidic patch’ regulates access to genetic information

Credit: Courtesy of Nature Chromatin remodelers -- protein machines that pack and unpack chromatin, the tightly wound DNA-protein complex in...

Cancer-fighting T cells are smarter, stronger than experts thought

Credit: Yinnian Feng/Vanderbilt University Scientists studying the body's cancer-fighting T cells have a serious problem: When they culture them in...

New cancer diagnosis may come with risk of thromboembolism

WASHINGTON (Aug. 14, 2017) -- Patients newly diagnosed with cancer may have a substantially increased short-term risk of arterial thromboembolism,...

Clinical trial eligibility criteria a growing obstacle

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Aug. 14, 2017 - Despite a decade-long call for simplification of clinical trials, the number...

Discovery of new prostate cancer biomarkers could improve precision therapy

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a new cause of treatment resistance in prostate cancer. Their discovery also...

Ohio State Cancer researchers validate a clinical test for fusion genes

Columbus, Ohio - An assay that identifies a peculiar but important abnormality in cancer cells has been developed and validated...

From thousands of suspects, Yale researchers ferret out cancer-causing genes