Genetic adaptation to climate change is swift in crop pests
Credit: N/A Fruit flies have the uncanny ability to wake up from a months-long hibernation right when their food of choice--say, the fruit from apple...
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‘Cellular compass’ guides stem cell division in plants
Credit: Andrew Muroyama The stem cells tasked with creating and maintaining biological tissues have a difficult job. They have to precisely divide to form new...
Invasive shrimp-sucking parasite continues northward Pacific expansion
Credit: Amanda Bemis and Gustav Paulay/Florida Museum CALVERT ISLAND, British Columbia --- Researchers have identified an invasive blood-sucking parasite on mud shrimp in the waters of British Columbia's...
Scientists to explore new frontiers in Parkinson’s disease research with $7.2M grant
Aligning science across Parkinson's initiative supports international project aiming to unravel the biology of a gene linked to Parkinson's diseaseCredit: Leschziner Lab, UC San Diego...
Rapid blood test could detect brain injury in minutes, study shows
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, Sept. 17, 2020 - A blood protein test could detect the severity of head trauma in under 15 minutes, according to research...
NASA finds tropical storm Noul packing a punch
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Powerful storms with heavy rainmaking capabilities appeared over the coast of central Vietnam in NASA provided infrared imagery on Sept. 17. NASA's...
Introducing COVID19questions.org
Clinicians, researchers, patients and the general public are invited to submit questions that could be answered by COVID-19 patient medical record data from 200+ hospitalsCredit:...
MDI Biological Laboratory receives grant to study tendon regeneration
Prayag Murawala, Ph.D., will study tendon regeneration after injury in salamandersCredit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE -- Modern medicine has made tremendous strides in...
New research shows how fast our brains are at ‘recording’ new words
Credit: Alexandra M. Razorenova, et al/ Frontiers of Neuroscience How much time does a brain need to learn a new word? A team of Skoltech...
New method adds and subtracts for sustainability’s true measure
Sidesteps could open gates to next virusCredit: Michigan State University Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability From loaning pandas to welcoming tourists to hike to...
Yousefi to develop artificial intelligence to improve glaucoma research, diagnosis
Credit: UTHSC Memphis, Tenn. (September 17, 2020) - Siamak Yousefi, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and the Department of Genetics, Genomics,...
NRL, NCATS scientists develop method to safely study COVID-19, other contagious diseases
Credit: National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences WASHINGTON -- Scientists and researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences...
NASA-NOAA satellite catches nighttime view of major hurricane Teddy
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) An early morning infrared image of Hurricane Teddy taken from NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP...
Projects led by Pitt chemical engineers receive more than $1 million in NSF funding
Credit: University of Pittsburgh Two projects led by professors in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of...
PET/MRI improves lesion detection, reduces radiation exposure
Credit: Images created by Ole Martin, University Dusseldorf, Medical Faculty and Benedikt Schaarschmidt, University Hospital Essen. Reston, VA--A single-center observational study of more than 1,000...
