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The Gold Standard: John Innes Centre receives Athena SWAN Gold award
Credit: John Innes Centre A world-leading plant and microbial science institute, the John Innes Centre, has become the first institution...
UTA develops cutting-edge lubricant technologies to improve gas mileage, reduce wear
Credit: UTA Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have developed a pipeline of new vehicle lubricant technologies that...
Penn team shows how seemingly acute viral infections can persist
Credit: University of Pennslyvania Infections caused by viruses, such as respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, measles, parainfluenza and Ebola, are...
Researchers help develop new antifungal drug
University of Liverpool researchers, working with F2G Limited (Eccles, Manchester), have developed a new antifungal drug to help in the...
New techniques may help scientists understand and manipulate bone remodeling
Osteoporosis is a disease categorized by brittle bones and increased risk of fracture. Individuals with osteoporosis, and diseases like it,...
Plant cells survive but stop dividing upon DNA damage
Credit: Masaaki Umeda (Nara, Japan) The cell cycle is the system through which a cell grows and divides. It is...
A dash of gold improves microlasers
Gold. The word brings to mind wedding rings, buried treasure and California in the 1840's. But when gold is reduced...
Predicting insect feeding preferences after deforestation
Credit: Felix Fornoff, University of Freiburg Like a scene from the movie Alien, insect parasitoids inject their eggs into unsuspecting...
Deer prefer native plants leaving lasting damage on forests
ITHACA, N.Y. - When rampant white-tailed deer graze in forests, they prefer to eat native plants over certain unpalatable invasive...
Research may lead to improvements in water use for crop irrigation
Two papers published in Irrigation and Drainage may help improve estimates of water requirements for crops, which will save water...
Lifestyle changes can close regional obesity gap, study finds
Lifestyle differences are to blame for regional variation in obesity rates in Scotland, research has found. Genetic factors cannot completely...
Preeclampsia triggered by an overdose of gene activity
Preeclampsia is the most dangerous form of hypertension during a pregnancy and can be fatal for both mother and child....
Two firms awarded seed grants to develop medical devices for children
Credit: Voxello, LLC The Philadelphia Pediatric Medical Device Consortium (PPDC) has announced its latest round of seed grants to companies...
Imaging agents developed to better monitor growth of tumors
Credit: University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB) UAlberta researchers have created two new imaging agents that could help physicians visualize the...
CRI study challenges long-standing concept in cancer metabolism
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 5, 2017 - Scientists at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern...
DSI professor conducts research to combat pancreatic cancer
Credit: DSI Tal Danino, a professor at the Data Science Institute, is conducting research that could help scientists combat the...
Good-guy bacteria may help cancer immunotherapies do their job
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 5, 2017 - Individuals with certain types of bacteria in their gut may be...
Scientists enlist supercomputers, machine learning to automatically identify brain tumors
Credit: Andreas Mang, Sameer Tharakan, Amir Gholami, Naveen Himthani, Shashank Subramanian, James Levitt, Muneeza Azmat, Klaudius Scheufele, Miriam Mehl, Christos...
New research on sperm stem cells has implications for male infertility and cancer
Credit: Huntsman Cancer Institute SALT LAKE CITY - New research from scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University...
‘Smart’ immune cells: Emerging cancer therapy research boosted with NIH award
Credit: Collins lab, UC Davis Assistant Professor Sean Collins, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in the UC Davis College...
