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February 15, 2026

Gene boosts rice growth and yield in salty soil

Credit: Jianzhong Lin Around 20% of the world's irrigated land is considered to contain elevated concentrations of salt, and the...

Metastatic cancer cells modify bone remodeling with small RNA secretion in bone metastasis

Credit: Department of Physiology and Cell Biology,TMDU Researchers at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) find a secreted microRNA molecule...

Scientists develop elastic metal rods to treat scoliosis

Credit: ©NUST MISIS NUST MISIS scientists jointly with their colleagues from the Ecole de Technologie Superiore (Montreal, Canada) have experienced...

Montana State University researchers publish study

BOZEMAN -- Researchers at Montana State University in Bozeman have published a study showing how access to high-quality fruits and...

Growing and surviving: How proteins regulate the cell cycle

Cell division is the basis of all life. Even the smallest errors in this complex process can lead to grave...

Paleontologists put the bite on an ancient reptile from New England

Credit: Yale University New Haven, Conn. - Scientists have identified a new species of reptile from prehistoric Connecticut and, boy,...

Research discovers how some cancers resist treatment

Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - An international team of researchers led by Lucio Miele, MD, PhD,...

Hip hop music teaches children, parents to recognize stroke and act quickly

DALLAS, March 22, 2018 -- An intervention that uses hip hop music with stroke education lyrics increased stroke awareness for...

New study highlights unique state of ‘restful alertness’ during transcendental meditation

Credit: Maharishi University of Management The Transcendental Meditation technique is said to lead to a state of "restful alertness," and...

DFG to establish 14 new priority programs

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) has approved the establishment of 14 new Priority Programmes (PP) for 2019. Priority...

Harvard scientists ask ‘what is the point?’ in challenge to acupuncture researchers

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 22, 2018--The effectiveness of acupuncture compared to standard treatments has...

Rate of hip replacement revision surgery declines in all age groups — except middle age

March 22, 2018 - As more patients undergo total hip arthroplasty (THA) before age 65, the rate of repeat hip...

An integrated workflow for interaction proteomics — as versatile as the Swiss Army Knife

Credit: Varjosalo Lab Proteins do not function in isolation and their interactions with other proteins define their cellular functions. Therefore,...

Novel genomics tool enables more accurate identification of rare mutations in cancer cells

Credit: New York Genome Center NEW YORK, NY (March 22, 2018) -- A new computational method developed by researchers at...

Scientists explored the structure of the key region of ‘immortality and aging’ enzyme

Credit: Elena Rodina Scientists from Moscow State University (MSU) working in an international team of researchers identified the structure of...

Discovery offers hope for improving physical performance as we age

Researchers from UNSW and Harvard Medical School have discovered that replacing two naturally occurring molecules in the body could reverse...

Study finds direct evidence of exposure of pregnant women to herbicide ingredient

INDIANAPOLIS -- The first birth cohort study of its kind has found more than 90 percent of a group of...

Electric textile lights a lamp when stretched

Credit: Johan Bodell/Chalmers University of Technology Working up a sweat from carrying a heavy load? That is when the textile...

Signalling study sheds light on conditions from alopecia to cancer

Researchers from the University of Dundee and the Francis Crick Institute have made a significant discovery about a cellular pathway...

Breakthrough in photonic biosensors could lead to super-accurate diagnostic and detectors