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Rice cultivation in Southeast Asia: 5 years of lessons learned by LEGATO
Credit: Pavel Stoev Five years of irrigated rice cultivation research reached its pinnacle at the Final LEGATO Conference, which took...
Residents of major Pakistan city are exposed to harmful pesticides
Credit: F Quaid-i-Azam University Residents and workers in a major Pakistan city are exposed to harmful levels of pesticides, new...
Penn team reverses signs of naturally occurring chronic periodontitis
Periodontitis, a gum disease present in nearly half of all adults in the United States, involves inflammation, bleeding and bone...
Researchers crack the smile, describing 3 types by muscle movement
Credit: Courtesy of Paula Niedenthal MADISON, Wis. — The smile may be the most common and flexible expression, used to...
OU Professor Recipient of National Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
University of Oklahoma Professor Joseph M. Suflita will receive a national award, the 2016 DuPont Industrial Biosciences Award in Applied...
SickKids-led project investigates malnutrition in children, liver…
Credit: © 2016 Sargent et al. Malnourished children living in the same household who are given the same food to...
Freiburg biologists explain function of Pentagone
How do the cells in a human embryo know where they are located in the body and how they should...
Dogs’ social skills linked to oxytocin sensitivity
Credit: Mia Persson The tendency of dogs to seek contact with their owners is associated with genetic variations in sensitivity...
Gene-editing technique successfully stops progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
IMAGE: Members of the UT Southwestern team whose research successfully halted progression of a form of muscular dystrophy in mice...
Study points a way to better implantable medical devices
Credit: Photo-illustration by Felice Frankel CAMBRIDGE, MA — Medical devices implanted in the body for drug delivery, sensing, or tissue...
Ninety-six scientists co-author paper on rainforest mammals
Credit: (c) Noé de la Sancha, The Field Museum. Imagine your hometown or city's entire population had to live on...
Rapid response for inflammation control in songbirds’ brains could lead to therapies…
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) March 11, 2016 — A biological process in the brains of zebra finches shows that the songbirds respond...
OU law student recipient of Udall Congressionall Internship
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma College of Law student, Aaron L. Fournier, is the recipient of a...
Pain neuron may protect fungal inflammation and bone destruction
Credit: Kenta Maruyama Pain neuron exaggerates inflammation of contact dermatitis and psoriasis. Despite its importance in allergic and autoimmune inflammation,...
New in vitro toxicology research on health risk assessment wins PETA…
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 2, 2017–Researchers have demonstrated the ability to use two new...
Antibiotics against severe salmonella infections in Africa…
"The affected countries will have a major problem if we do not manage to control salmonella bloodstream infections with new...
Nature’s masonry: The first steps in how thin protein sheets…
IMAGE: This illustration shows how hexagonal bacterial proteins (shown as ribbon-like structures at right and upper right) self-assemble into a...
Allen Cell Types Database updated with new data and models
Credit: Allen Institute The Allen Institute for Brain Science has released additional data and computer models of cell activity for...
Jens Nielsen receive gold medal for innovative research in the field of systems biology
Credit: The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark Chief Scientific Officer at the Novo...
Study offers clearest picture yet of how HIV defeats a cellular…
Credit: Graphic by Juan Perilla CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new study offers the first atomic-scale view of an interaction between...
