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‘The father of the 2 degrees limit’: Schellnhuber receives Blue Planet Prize
The world's most prestigious award for pioneers in environmental science was given to Hans Joachim Schellnhuber this week in Tokyo....
Researchers find evidence of DNA damage in veterans with Gulf War illness
Credit: Mitch Mirkin Researchers say they have found the "first direct biological evidence" of damage in veterans with Gulf War...
Forest fires on the rise as JRC study warns of danger to air quality
Credit: EU, 2017 The JRC's annual forest fires report confirms a trend towards longer and more intense fire seasons in...
International patients increasingly seek in vitro fertilization treatment in US
A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that...
New tyrannosaur fossil is most complete found in southwestern US
Credit: Mark Johnston/NHMU A remarkable new fossilized skeleton of a tyrannosaur discovered in the Bureau of Land Management's Grand Staircase-Escalante...
Dogs are more expressive when someone is looking
Dogs produce more facial expressions when humans are looking at them, according to new research from the University of Portsmouth....
Maternal diet may program child for disease risk, but better nutrition later can change that
URBANA, Ill. - Research has shown that a mother's diet during pregnancy, particularly one that is high-fat, may program her...
Benson Hill launches gene editing system
LONDON, UK. -- October 19, 2017 -- Benson Hill Biosystems, an agricultural technology company dedicated to unlocking the natural genetic...
Suicide molecules kill any cancer cell
Super assassin in every cell is poised to take out cancer cells Cancer cells treated with certain human RNA molecules...
New gene editing approach for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency shows promise in UMMS study
WORCESTER -- A new study by scientists at UMass Medical School shows that using a technique called "nuclease-free" gene editing...
Researchers demonstrate new ways to achieve selectivity for biomarkers in bioelectronics
Credit: University of Arizona Engineers at the University of Arizona have experimentally verified the electrochemical processes that control charge transfer...
Launch of the ‘Alliance of Severo Ochoa Centres and Maria de Maeztu Units of Excellence’
Credit: SEIDI The 25 centres and 16 research units accredited with the "Severo Ochoa" and "María de Maeztu" excellence distinctions...
Infidelity can be forgiven — but at a cost
Infidelity is very common. At least 20 per cent of couples - and perhaps many more, depending on where you...
Fossil coral reefs show sea level rose in bursts during last warming
Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute HOUSTON -- (Oct. 19, 2017) -- Scientists from Rice University and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's Harte...
Creating a better RNA switch
If scientists could precisely regulate gene expression, they could turn off the genes responsible for illness and disease and turn...
The microbial anatomy of an organ
Credit: Garg, et al. Cell Host & Microbe, Oct. 19, 2017. University of California San Diego researchers have developed the...
An international consortium identifies the breast cancer patients who would benefit from a treatment
Credit: IRB Barcelona Physicians currently have no tools to help them detect breast cancer patients who will suffer metastasis, a...
Veterans study reports reduction in suicide ideation after HBOT
New Orleans, LA - A pilot case control study of veterans of the US armed forces with mild traumatic brain...
The birth of a new protein
Credit: Matthew Cordes, using UCSF Chimera molecular graphics package A yeast protein that evolved from scratch can fold into a...
Phages are an effective alternative to the use of antibiotics in aquaculture
Credit: AZTI-Tecnalia Therapy with phages, instead of antibiotics, is a highly promising option in aquaculture to control the transfer of...
