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October 11, 2025

Humboldt Professorship for animal behaviour scientist Margaret C. Crofoot

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded a prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Professorship to the University of Konstanz for the...

New way to treat cholesterol may be on the horizon

HOUSTON - (Oct. 26, 2017) - A breakthrough discovery by scientists at Houston Methodist could change the way we treat...

Fly hunter has described 30 new species

Credit: Xiaolong Lin, NTNU University Museum Chironomids are also called non-biting midges or lake flies. Xiaolong Lin is a PhD...

Late Tiassic terrestrial ecosystem changes

Credit: Photo courtesy of Andrew V. Kearns, 2012. Boulder, Colo., USA: The Norian Chinle Formation in the Southwestern United States...

‘Bandit-masked’ feathered dinosaur hid from predators using multiple types of camouflage

Credit: David Marshall, University of Bristol Researchers from the University of Bristol have revealed how a small feathered dinosaur used...

Researchers engineer CRISPR to edit single RNA letters in human cells

The Broad Institute and MIT scientists who first harnessed CRISPR for mammalian genome editing have engineered a new molecular system...

Bat Poop: A Reliable Source of Climate Change

Credit: Dr. Bogdan Onac, University of South Florida People have long known that bat guano - the polite term for...

Imported candy at top of contaminated food list in California

Following a state law mandating testing, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued more alerts for lead in candy...

Wayne State receives $1.85 million NIH grant to identify novel antibiotic targets

Credit: Julie O'Connor, Wayne State University DETROIT - A research team from Wayne State University has received a $1.85 million...

Geobiologist receives prestigious Packard Fellowship

Magdalena R. Osburn, a Northwestern University geobiologist who studies ancient and modern microbes, has been awarded a 2017 Packard Fellowship...

Insilico to lecture on the recent advances in AI and blockchain for the pharma industry

Credit: Insilico Medicine Thursday, 10.26.2017, Baltimore, MD, Insilico Medicine, a leader in the field of artificial intelligence, is pleased to...

Researchers greenlight gas detection at room temperature

Credit: MIPT Press Office Russian researchers have developed a mechanism for detecting molecular hydrogen using green light to illuminate a...

Why insects can develop from unfertilized egg cells

A scientist from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology, has, together with his Russian colleague, explained frequent occurrence...

Targeting mitochondria in pulmonary hypertension

(Edmonton, AB) Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) is a debilitating disease of the lung blood vessels that causes heart failure and...

Blocking key pathways is a way to defeat cancer stem cells

Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences in Japan and international collaborators have found that in humanized mice,...

Brain tumors share common tricks to survive

Different types of brain tumours may use strikingly similar approaches to generate and use energy to survive in the brain,...

Blood test can effectively rule out breast cancer, regardless of breast density

NEW YORK, October 25, 2017 - A new study published in PLOS ONE demonstrates that Videssa® Breast, a multi-protein biomarker...

Sexual function concerns not always reflected in prostate cancer treatment choices

CHAPEL HILL -- Preserving sexual function was important to many men facing treatment for prostate cancer, according to a recent...

Gallbladder cancer: Pharmacist finds protein that drives tumor growth

Credit: Claudia Ehrlich Patients with gallbladder cancer often show few or no symptoms for long periods of time. As a...

Timing could matter to how responsive cancer cells are to treatment, study suggests