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Deforestation long overlooked as contributor to climate change
ITHACA, N.Y. – When it comes to tackling climate change, the focus often falls on reducing the use of fossil...
Life on the ice
Credit: James Chong For the first time scientists have directly observed living bacteria in polar ice and snow – an...
Gender roles in ancient times
Credit: Osaka University The rich mane of a lion, the colorful tail of a peacock, examples of sexual dimorphism are...
Facial recognition software helps diagnose rare genetic disease
Credit: Paul Kruszka, et al. Researchers with the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of...
Heidi M. Sosik selected as a Fellow of The Oceanography Society
Credit: Heidi N. Sosik The Oceanography Society (TOS) congratulates Dr. Heidi M. Sosik (Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) on...
Nanoparticles for 3-D printing in water open door to advanced biomedical materials
Credit: Adapted with permission from Pawar et al., Nano Lett. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01870. Copyright (2017) American Chemical Society. Researchers at the...
Imaging mRNA right where it is made — at the site of translation
Credit: American Chemical Society Think of life as a house: if DNA molecules are blueprints, then messenger RNAs (mRNAs) are...
Shedding light on arctic zooplankton in the dark
Credit: Geir Johnsen, NTNU/UNIS Some of the smallest creatures on the planet — zooplankton — make the most widespread vertical...
New gene delivery approach could allow long-term persistence in proliferating cells
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Sept. 22, 2017 — Researchers added a scaffold/matrix attachment region (S/MAR)...
Breast milk linked to significant early brain growth in preemies
Feeding premature babies mostly breast milk during the first month of life appears to spur more robust brain growth, compared...
Study shines new light on how Salmonella ‘die’ at low temperatures
Credit: Jennifer McCann / Penn State The most economical way to kill bacteria that cause common food-borne illnesses — mostly...
When it comes to the threat of extinction, size matters
Credit: Illustration: Oliver Day, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. — Animals in the Goldilocks zone — neither too big, nor...
New testing method developed for genetic mutation that causes pulmonary hypertension
Pulmonology and genetics experts from two Utah healthcare organizations have collaboratively developed a new diagnostic genomic testing method for a...
Removal of invasive shrub could be an easy way to help reduce malaria…
Credit: Muller et al., Malaria Journal, 2017' Removing the flowers of an invasive shrub from mosquito-prone areas might be a...