Topology in biology
Credit: Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization When can we say that a certain property of a system is robust? Intuitively, robustness implies that,...
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Water resources: Defusing conflict, promoting cooperation
Credit: Mimi Abebayehu/Wikimedia Commons Rivers are lifelines for many countries. They create valuable ecosystems, provide drinking water for people and raw water for agriculture and...
Chemotherapy can induce mutations that lead to pediatric leukemia relapse
A collaboration led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Shanghai Children's Medical Center and others revealed how thiopurines produce mutations that lead to multi-drug resistant...
Brain-repair discovery could lead to new epilepsy treatments
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered a previously unknown repair process in the brain that they...
Southeastern US herbaria digitize three million specimens, now freely available online
Credit: Photo courtesy of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Herbarium A network of over 100 herbaria spread out across the southeastern United States recently...
Early-life social connections influence gene expression, stress resilience
Credit: Kay E. Holekamp Having friends may not only be good for the health of your social life, but also for your actual health--if you're...
Perfecting collagen production in osteogenesis imperfecta
By studying the controversial idea that hematopoietic stem cells could give rise to osteoblasts, researchers at MUSC Health aim to address the root cause of...
‘Good cholesterol’ may protect liver
Study in mice, human blood samples, suggests HDL from the intestine may prevent liver inflammationCredit: Brad W. Warner The body's so-called good cholesterol may be...
Advanced bladder cancers respond to immunotherapy regardless of gene mutation status
Credit: UNC LIneberge Comprehensive Cancer Center CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina--A new study has demonstrated that patients with advanced bladder cancers whose tumors have a mutated...
Doctoral student bridges gap between electronics and optics
New chip can revolutionize the current data rate for processors using microwave photonicsCredit: Justin Baetge, Texas A&M Engineering According to the United Nations' telecommunications agency,...
Top geology award goes to Ian Dalziel of The University of Texas at Austin
Credit: Ian Dalziel Ian W.D. Dalziel, a professor in the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the...
Tulane spin-out company to develop new treatment for pelvic organ prolapse
BioAesthetics Corp. is teaming up with a Tulane biomedical engineering professor to develop better treatment for pelvic organ prolapseCredit: Courtesy of Nicholas Pashos and Kristin...
NIH awards more than $20 million to international HIV database centers
IeDEA program analyzes health data from over 2 million people to advance HIV careCredit: NIAID WHAT: The National Institutes of Health has renewed grants to...
Investigational magnetic device shrinks glioblastoma in first-in-world human test
Credit: Houston Methodist Houston Methodist Neurological Institute researchers from the department of neurosurgery shrunk a deadly glioblastoma tumor by more than a third using a...
Cattle losing adaptations to environment, MU researchers find
Researchers pave the way for genetic tests of cattle that can look for the presence of specific adaptations, such as heat resistanceCredit: University of Missouri....
