How a virus forms its symmetric shells
UC Riverside-led study could inform the design of engineered nano-shells used in drug deliveryCredit: Zandi lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Viruses -- small disease-causing...
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NIH study finds lower concentration of PrEP drug in pregnant young women
Strict adherence to daily PrEP is especially important in pregnancy, investigators concludeCredit: Peter Anderson Among African adolescent girls and young women who took HIV pre-exposure...
The AIAA taps space weather pioneer Louis Lanzerotti for a career award
Credit: New Jersey Institute of Technology Louis Lanzerotti, a distinguished research professor of physics best known for shedding light on the space environment around Earth...
‘Deceptively simple’ process could boost plastics recycling
The method also could advance producing plastics from natural oilsCredit: University of Houston Plastics are a victim of their own success, so inexpensive, easy to...
Rice, know thy enemy: NSF grants $2.6 million to study weedy invader
Credit: Joe Angeles/Washington University Many farmers struggle with an enemy that looks like a friend. Agricultural weeds that are close relatives of crops present a...
How new data can make ecological forecasts as good as weather forecasts
Credit: Illustration by E. Paul Oberlander, with permission from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution MADISON, Wis. -- When El Nino approaches, driven by warm Pacific...
Climate change at Mount Rainier to increase ‘mismatch’ between visitors, wildflowers
Credit: Elli Theobald Spring is coming, and with it comes the promise of warmer weather, longer days and renewed life. For residents of the Pacific...
The Protein Society announces DiversifyProteinScience
Credit: DiversifyProteinscience CANYON COUNTRY, CA - The Protein Society, the premier international society dedicated to supporting protein research, announces the launch of DiversifyProteinScience. This web...
Annual Review of Cancer Biology uses Subscribe to Open to publish 2020 volume open access
Pilot OA program generates widespread support from institutional subscribersCredit: Annual Reviews Nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews is pleased to announce that the 2020 volume of the...
Firearm violence solutions from a public health perspective
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (March 9, 2020) - While firearm violence is a major public health challenge in the United States, it has often been...
Advanced optical imaging technique may lead to structure-guided drug design
Credit: Ken Scar, Clemson University CLEMSON, South Carolina -- A Clemson University College of Science researcher, together with a team of researchers primarily at Heinrich Heine University...
Major grant funds Derfner-Lieberman Regenerative Rehabilitation Lab at Kessler Foundation
Derfner Foundation awards $250,000 to Kessler Foundation to expand regenerative rehabilitation research to improve the lives of people with disabling injuriesCredit: Kessler Foundation/Jody Banks East...
St. Jude finds cancer drug resistance genes and possibly how to limit their effects
Drug resistance is a leading cause of cancer death in children and adults with leukemia. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have developed a novel...
New paragliding spy drone can be fired from 40mm grenade launcher
US Army files for patentCredit: US Army Two researchers working for the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have come up with a drone design that shoots...
Copy/paste and delete — or how to thrive without gene regulation
IST Austria scientists demonstrate alternative evolutionary strategy -- study published in Nature Ecology & EvolutionCredit: IST Austria - Guet group Natural environments are constantly changing....
