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While estrogen receptor - + breast cancers express high levels of three anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family members, pharmacological inhibition of Bcl-2 ...

Using fungi to search for medical drugs

Credit: Jelmer Hoeksma, © Hubrecht Institute An enormous library of products derived from more than ten thousand fungi could help ...

Fire ants’ raft building skills react as fluid forces change

Scientists explore how fire ants build rafts to adapt in a very wet environmentCredit: Hungtang Ko SEATTLE, November 26, 2019 ...

UK science engineering company ready to take Purdue heating technology to the market

Credit: Alconbury Weston Limited WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A novel heating technology based on materials commonly used in the aerospace ...

MS linked to variant of common herpes virus through new method

Credit: Karolinska Institutet Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a new method to separate between two different types of a ...

Lehigh University nuclear fusion plasma control expert pursuing global energy goal

Two recently awarded DOE grants fund the work of Eugenio Schuster, who is leading research teams at existing tokamaks that ...

Nuclear reactors with a newly proposed barrier could’ve withstood Chernobyl and Fukushima

Credit: Country of Rosatom In the aftermath of the notorious accidents in the history of nuclear energy at Three Mile ...

NASA spots first tropical cyclone of Southern Pacific season

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL The tropical cyclone season in the Southern Pacific Ocean has kicked off with Tropical Cyclone Rita, and ...

16-million-year-old fossil shows springtails hitchhiking on winged termite

Credit: N. Robin, C. D'Haese and P. Barden When trying to better the odds for survival, a major dilemma that ...

FAU receives $1.3 million grant from Florida Division Of Emergency Management

FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science and FDEM project will create framework for flood risk managementCredit: Florida Atlantic University ...

Hops compounds help with metabolic syndrome while reducing microbiome diversity

Credit: (Photo courtesy of Oregon State University) CORVALLIS, Ore. - Compounds from hops may combat metabolic syndrome by changing the ...

Researchers reach milestone in quantum standardization

Credit: University of Waterloo Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a method that could pave the way to ...

How mantis shrimp make sense of the world

Researchers traced neural connections in a newly discovered brain region of mantis shrimp, gaining new insights into how the fierce ...

Wearable sweat sensor detects gout-causing compounds

Credit: Caltech There are numerous things to dislike about going to the doctor: Paying a copay, sitting in the waiting ...

Gut microbes alter characteristics of norovirus infection

Findings, in mice, could guide research into future therapiesCredit: CDC/ Charles D. Humphrey The highly contagious norovirus causes diarrhea and ...

Forest farms could create market for ginseng, other herbs

Credit: Eric Burkhart, Penn State A transition from wild collection of herbs to forest farming needs to occur in Appalachia ...

Under the lens: Link between macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa

University of Houston research team examines eye disease with $2.5 million awardCredit: University of Houston Four words you never want ...

Downstream signaling: Cilia release ectosomes to deliver important messages in the kidney

Cilia play critical roles in sending and receiving signals from distant sites through mechano- and chemosensation and now through small ...

Study paves way to better understanding, treatment of arthritis

Credit: Brian Bay, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University research has provided the first complete, cellular-level look ...

New research training group on the self-organization of soft matter