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Emerging disease further jeopardizes North American frogs
Credit: William Barichivich, USGS A deadly amphibian disease called severe Perkinsea infections, or SPI, is the cause of many large-scale...
Supercontinuum lasers can lead to better bread and beer
Credit: Lene Hundborg Koss, University of Copenhagen. Technologically, the supercontinuum laser has undergone extensive development since the turn of the...
Changes in non-extreme precipitation may have not-so-subtle consequences
Credit: Praveen Kumar Extreme floods and droughts receive a lot of attention. But what happens when precipitation -- or lack...
Scientists find way to convert bad body fat into good fat
Credit: Irfan J. Lodhi There's good fat and bad fat in our bodies. The good fat helps burn calories, while...
$20M NSF award to fund research into the role of microorganisms in plant, soil, water
Credit: Walter Dodds, Kansas State University LAWRENCE - The University of Kansas will partner with four other Kansas universities on...
Comprehensive meta-analysis affirms cranberries’ role in promoting a healthy urinary tract
CARVER, Mass., September 19, 2017 - A thorough review of dozens of studies led scientists to conclude that healthcare professionals...
Is there a link between breast milk nutrients, circadian rhythms, and infant health?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Sept. 19, 2017 -- The fat content and levels of several...
Sushi’s sublime secrets (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2017 -- Sushi is sublime. Just fresh fish and seasoned rice in...
HHMI selects 15 Hanna Gray Fellows to support diversity in science
Credit: HHMI The Howard Hughes Medical Institute today announced the selection of 15 exceptional early career scientists as the first...
Cell model of the brain provides new knowledge on developmental disease
By reprogramming skin cells into nerve cells, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden are creating cell models of the human...
New toolkit helps nurses use genomics in patient care
Nurses and other health professionals looking to integrate genomics into patient care now have access to an online toolkit with...
Running roaches, flapping moths create a new physics of organisms
Credit: Credit: Megan Matthews Sand-swimming lizards, slithering robotic snakes, dusk-flying moths and running roaches all have one thing in common:...
Research redefines proteins’ role in the development of spinal sensory cells
Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center/eLife A recent study led by Samantha Butler at the Eli and Edythe Broad...
A piece of the puzzle: 8 autism-related mutations in 1 gene
Scientists have identified a hotspot for autism-related mutations in a single gene. By studying data from thousands of genomes of...
NSF issues new EPSCoR awards, investing in science and engineering across nation
Credit: Walter Dodds, Kansas State University. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded five jurisdictions nearly $20 million each through...
Science denial not limited to political right
Credit: Nick Youngson In the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, many claims have been made that science denial, particularly...
PET imaging tracks Zika virus infection, disease progression in mouse model
Credit: Image courtesy of US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases For the first time, scientists have used Positron...
InDevR licenses Mount Sinai influenza antibodies for VaxArray neuraminidase potency assay
Credit: InDevR, Inc. InDevR, a Boulder-based progressive analytical technology and life science instrumentation company today announced that it has entered...
Fluorescence microscopy on a chip — no lenses required
Credit: Takehara et al. WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 19, 2017 - Fluorescence microscopy gives researchers incredible power to illuminate the tiniest...
Method to estimate abundance, trends in North Atlantic right whales confirms decline
NOAA Fisheries researchers and colleagues at the New England Aquarium have developed a new model to improve estimates of abundance...
