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How do people choose what plants to use?
There are about 400,000 species of plants in the world. Humans use approximately 10-15% of them to cover our basic...
Crop achilles’ heel costs farmers 10 percent of potential yield
Credit: Don Hamerman/Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Scientists assumed leaves at the top of a plant would be...
Trees supplement income for rural farmers in Africa
Credit: Daniel Miller URBANA, Ill. - Trees may be easy to spot on the plains of Africa but they are...
Bioinvasion is jeopardizing Mediterranean marine communities
Credit: Z. Fayer. Non-indigenous species (NIS) are harming indigenous species and habitats in the Mediterranean Sea, impairing potentially exploitable marine...
Insects and umami receptors
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- Insects, like mammals including humans, sort chemicals by taste into a few categories...
Your Android device’s Pattern Lock can be cracked within five attempts
Credit: Lancaster University The popular Pattern Lock system used to secure millions of Android phones can be cracked within just...
On target: UNC researcher arms platelets to deliver cancer immunotherapy
Credit: Photo courtesy of UNC-NC State Joint Biomedical Engineering Program. After surgery to remove a cancerous tumor -- even if...
Using simulation tools to optimize soft robotic systems
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan.23, 2017 -- Simulation is a valuable tool to improve the...
Synthetic nanoparticles achieve the complexity of protein molecules
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Chemists at Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated that synthetic nanoparticles can achieve the same level of...
Hearst Foundation funds TGen research into cancer-related ‘wasting syndrome’
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Jan. 23, 2017 -- The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has received a $175,000 grant from the...
Microscopic submarines for your stomach
Tiny "submarines" that speed independently through the stomach, use gastric acid for fuel (while rapidly neutralizing it), and release their...
How nicotine acts on the brains of schizophrenic patients
Several studies have indicated that schizophrenic patients are likely to show a high level of nicotine dependence. Scientists from the...
Lithuania joins the EMBO Installation Grants scheme
EMBO Programme Manager, Gerlind Wallon, explained, "EMBO Installation Grants encourage talented young group leaders to establish laboratories in countries which...
MacKinnon lab charts the anatomy of three molecular channels
Credit: Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics/The Rockefeller University Using a state-of-the-art imaging technology in which molecules are deep frozen,...
Spanish scientists create a 3-D bioprinter to print human skin
Credit: UC3M This research has recently been published in the electronic version of the scientific journal Biofabrication. In this article,...
UM announces creation of the Frost Institutes for Science and Engineering
CORAL GABLES, Fla., Jan. 23, 2017 - Recognizing the need to grow a global, interdisciplinary network focused on scientific discovery...
Engineers eat away at Ms. Pac-Man score with artificial player
Loading video... Credit: Cornell University Using a novel approach for computing real-time game strategy, engineers have developed an artificial Ms....
Strategies designed to reduce excessive body temperature during exercise are explored
Doing exercise in hot environments leads to early fatigue owing to a range of physiological factors in which high body...
Research leads to new treatment recommendations for a high-risk pediatric leukemia
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Tina Motroni Research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has identified three...
TCGA study identifies genomic features of cervical cancer
Investigators with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network have identified novel genomic and molecular characteristics of cervical cancer that...
