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NIFA announces $4 million in funding for biotechnology risk assessment research
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2016 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced...
The delights of dirt
Credit: Springer Soil can be beautiful, odiferous, slimy or sublime. It provides simple pleasures, such as its rich earthy scent...
Forming a second line of plant defense — capturing disease-resistant DNA
Credit: Earlham Institute RenSeq (1) is the method to sequence Resistance (R) genes that confer disease resistance in plants. Each...
New wheat crops as an alternative to a gluten-free diet
Wheat, one of the most widely consumed grains in the world, contains gluten, a mixture of proteins that can be...
Mutations acquired trans-Pacific may be key to changes in Zika severity
Credit: Daniel Janies The Zika virus remains a mystery. Isolated from macaque monkeys in the Ziika Forest in Uganda in...
Drugs from nature: Big effects of multiple compounds in small amounts
FRANKFURT. Nature often produces a whole weaponry of active ingredients to ensure it is well prepared for any scenario that...
Using herpes drugs to slow down Alzheimer’s disease could become reality
(Umea University) The first clinical study to investigate if herpes virus drugs can have an effect on fundamental Alzheimer's disease...
Scientists redefine horned dinosaur relationships by naming 2 new ceratopsian tribes
Cleveland, Ohio . . . Scientists have named two new clades, or tribes, of horned dinosaurs (ceratopsians) based on fossils...
Salmon, blue mussel, eider, and eel die from the same vitamin deficiency
Deficiency of vitamin B1 (thiamine) in wildlife is previously known as a problem among certain species within relatively limited geographical...
Energy cascades in quasicrystals trigger an avalanche of discovery
Credit: Amanda Petford-Long/Argonne National Laboratory Most materials, when viewed at the atomic level, come in one of two types. Some...
New study seeks to use human serum to detect heart attacks
Credit: UNIST Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. Therefore, a fast and reliable...
Personalizing chemotherapy to treat pediatric leukemia
A team of UCLA bioengineers has demonstrated that its technology may go a long way toward overcoming the challenges of...
Hands-free just as distracting as handheld mobile phone use behind the wheel
Talking hands-free on a mobile phone while driving is just as distracting as a conversation using a hand-held phone, despite...
Groundbreaking study sheds light on treating cancer
Credit: UNIST The new study, by researchers from UNIST demonstrates a more holistic light-based treatment to nuke cancer cells instead...
Splice project to put a (polymer) spring into vehicle fuel efficiency
Credit: WMG/University of Warwick Researchers at WMG at the University of Warwick have won research funding worth £250,000 from Innovate...
£10 million intelligent health-care technologies research for self-management of chronic conditions
(Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Eight new research projects that will help people self-manage chronic conditions, such as COPD...
New X-ray technique could improve bomb detection and breast cancer treatment
An exciting X-ray imaging technology has been successfully developed to the point where it is now ready for translation into...
Scientists move step closer to solving fusion plasma dilemma
Credit: UNIST A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST claims to have made yet another step towards finding a solution...
New anode material set to boost lithium-ion battery capacity
Credit: UNIST A new approach developed by a team of researchers, led by Prof. Jaephil Cho (School of Energy and...
Direct observation of graphene decoupling on Cu(111)
Credit: UNIST The graphene films, grown on the copper (Cu) substrates must be detached clean without leaving residue behind, as...
