Hope for a vaccination against Staphylococcus areus infections?
An epitope based immunisation as a new vaccination strategyCredit: NIAID Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) ranks among the globally most important causes of infections in humans...
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CAREER awardee investigates quantum’s ‘sweet spot’
Electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Boulat Bash applies quantum methods to super-secret sensing and communication.Credit: University of Arizona College of Engineering When someone wants...
Scientists discover how the potentially oldest coral reefs in the Mediterranean developed
Credit: ICM-CSIC, University of Southampton A new study from the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC, Spain) and the National Oceanography Centre brings unprecedented insights...
The physics behind tumor growth
New theory uses physics to predict the growth stages of cancerous tumorsCredit: Bean, et al. Mol. Cell, 2006. DOI: 10.1016/j. molcel.2005.10.035. DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers...
Estrogen receptors in mom’s placenta critical during viral infection
Innate immune response would harm the fetus, so placenta tamps it downCredit: Nicholas Heaton Lab, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. - Researchers at Duke and Mt....
Ten suggestions for female faculty and staff during the pandemic
Credit: University of California San Diego When university campuses sent students, staff and faculty members home in March, Padmini Rangamani, a professor at the University...
Message in a bottle: Info-rich bubbles respond to antibiotics
Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. Once regarded as merely cast-off waste products of cellular life, bacterial membrane vesicles (MVs) have since become...
Electrons caught in the act
Scientists at the University of Tsukuba combine scanning tunneling microscopy with ultrafast spectroscopy to image the motion of electrons with unprecedented resolution, which may lead...
Memory fail controlled by dopamine circuit, study finds
'Transient forgetting' mechanism revealed; pauses thought without abolishing long-term memoriesCredit: Scripps Research JUPITER, FL - In a landmark neurobiology study, scientists from Scripps Research have...
Inflammation caused by scorpion venom should be blocked immediately, study shows
In an article published in Nature Communications, Brazilian researchers show for the first time that in severe cases of scorpion envenomation it is the neuroimmune...
CNIO participates in a study that defines the most important genes that increase breast cancer risk
The most ambitious international research ever conducted on the inheritance of breast cancer, based on the analysis of 113,000 samplesCredit: A. Garrido, CNIO Genetic inheritance...
Innovations through hair-thin optical fibres
Study by the University of Bonn shows what miniaturised optical filters make possibleCredit: © Uni Bonn Scientists at the University of Bonn have built hair-thin...
NUI Galway contribute to significant breast cancer risk genes study
NUI Galway breast cancer specialists contribute to international study on the identification of nine breast cancer risk genesCredit: NUI Galway Breast cancer investigators in the...
As oceans warm, large fish struggle
New tool gauges impacts of warming waters on over 200 fish speciesCredit: Credit: Ludovic Lhotte Warming ocean waters could reduce the ability of fish, especially...
Producing green hydrogen through the exposure of nanomaterials to sunlight
A research team from INRS has joined forces with French researchers from ICPEES to pave the way towards the production of green hydrogenCredit: Christian Fleury...
