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Monoclonal antibody cures marburg infection in monkeys
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Tom Geisbert, University of Texas Medical Branch WHAT: Scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health...
Random process analysis could give a woman more information about which infertility treatment is best
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 6, 2017) – It's been used to study automobile cruise control systems and population...
Six teams seek to identify biological factors that influence neural…
The National Institutes of Health will fund six projects to identify biological factors that affect neural regeneration in the retina....
Dartmouth, NSF aim to turn America’s rural libraries into STEM centers
HANOVER, N.H. – Dartmouth College will use a $3 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to further help...
Significant expansion of data available in the Genomic Data Commons
The recently launched Genomic Data Commons (GDC) will get a dramatic increase in the power and utility of its resources...
IU, Regenstrief study: Early home health worker visit lowers risk of…
Credit: Eskenazi Health INDIANAPOLIS – A visit by a home health worker, such as a nurse or physical therapist, within...
nTIDE Dec 2017: Yearend job numbers cap record year for americans with…
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ – January 5, 2018. Despite December's lag in U.S. job numbers, Americans with disabilities...
UTSA researcher to study waterways contaminated by Hurricane Harvey…
Credit: Deborah Silliman, UTSA College of Engineering Vikram Kapoor, an assistant professor in The University of Texas at San Antonio...
The mysterious sexual life of the most primitive dragonfly
Credit: Adolfo Cordero-Rivera The dragonfly considered the most primitive in the world lives in Australia and Tasmania, and was believed...
Fiona Watt to receive the 2016 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award
Credit: Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine at King's College London Heidelberg, 26 February 2016 – EMBO and FEBS...
In assessing risk of hormone therapy for menopause, dose — not…
Credit: UCLA Health FINDINGS When it comes to assessing the risk of estrogen therapy for menopause, how the therapy is...
‘Shapeshifter’ that regulates blood clotting is visually…
A single molecule of von Willebrand factor is visually captured, as it elongates and relaxes in response to blood flow...
Tens of millions of trees in danger from California drought
IMAGE: This image shows progressive water stress on California's forests. Credit: Courtesy of Greg Asner. Washington, DC — California's forests...
After legal-ivory experiment, black markets thrive from greater demand, less risk
To curb the destructive illegal ivory trade, the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) announced in 2008...
Culex mosquitoes do not transmit Zika virus, Kansas State University…
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS — A Biosecurity Research Institute study has found important results in the fight against...
Mystery of how sperm swim revealed in mathematical formula
Credit: Kyoto University Researchers have developed a mathematical formula based on the rhythmic movement of a sperm's head and tail,...
Scientists discover bird blood cell which destroys fatal fungal infection
Scientists have discovered that a specialised white blood cell found in birds can destroy a potentially fatal fungal infection which...
Chemistry trick paves way for safer diabetes medication
New research from the University of Copenhagen points to an entirely new approach for designing insulin-based pharmaceuticals. The approach could...
Woodpecker drumming signals wimp or warrior
Credit: WFU/Ken Bennett Animal behavior researchers at Wake Forest University have found that the highly territorial downy woodpecker interprets drumming...
Annual influenza vaccination does not prevent natural immunity
Credit: University of Bergen Earlier studies have suggested that having repeated annual influenza vaccination can prevent natural immunity to the...
