Stand Up To Cancer Laura Ziskin Prize awarded to Drs. Leisha A. Emens and Xiang Zhang
Credit: Stand Up To Cancer LOS ANGELES - January 28, 2020-- Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) has awarded the 2020 Laura Ziskin Prize in Translational...
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Researchers generalize Fourier’s heat equation, explaining hydrodynamic heat propagatio
Theory is in striking agreement with pioneering experimental results in graphite published last yearCredit: @Michele Simoncelli, EPFL Fourier's well-known heat equation, introduced in 1822, describes...
A better building block for creating new materials
Credit: Felice Macera When chemists or engineers want to make a new type of material, they head to the laboratory and start "cooking." Much like...
Critically injured soldiers have high rates of mental health disorders
New UMass Amherst study found military members with serious brain injuries are at greater riskCredit: UMass Amherst U.S. combat soldiers who suffered a moderate or...
Harrington Seed Destructor kills nearly 100 percent of US agronomic weed seeds in lab study
Credit: Lauren Quinn, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - In the battle against herbicide-resistant weeds, farmers are increasingly eager to add non-chemical control methods to...
Bad to the bone: Specific gut bacterium impairs normal skeletal growth and maturation
Segmented filamentous bacteria, a specific bacterium within the healthy gut microbiome, significantly influences the immune system to impair bone mass accrual during post-pubertal skeletal developmentCredit:...
Bad to the bone: Specific gut bacterium impairs normal skeletal growth and maturation
Segmented filamentous bacteria, a specific bacterium within the healthy gut microbiome, significantly influences the immune system to impair bone mass accrual during post-pubertal skeletal developmentCredit:...
Concordian examines the link between cognition and hearing or vision loss
Social factors do not explain how they are connected, new research showsCredit: Concordia University There is a long-established and widely recognized link between declines in...
What’s in your water?
Researchers identify new toxic byproducts of disinfecting drinking waterCredit: Marissa Lanterman/Johns Hopkins University Mixing drinking water with chlorine, the United States' most common method of...
Six patients with rare blood disease are doing well after gene therapy clinical trial
Treatment uses person's own stem cells instead of donor cellsCredit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center/Nature Medicine UCLA researchers are part of an international team...
Scientists create listeriosis-immune mice by turning off gene in myeloid cells
The study provides exciting material for understanding the mechanisms of the immune response to pathogenic microorganisms.Credit: ITMO University An international research team which includes specialists...
Researchers develop method to assess geographic origins of ancient humans
Study focused on ancient skull and mandible remains at Crenshaw, a Caddo Indian site in southwest Arkansas.Credit: University Relations / University of Arkansas Working with...
Protein pores packed in polymers make super-efficient filtration membranes
Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin AUSTIN, Texas -- A multidisciplinary team of engineers and scientists has developed a new...
NIH grant will help NIU professor study links between exercise, brain health
Credit: Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Ill. -- Angela Grippo's New Year's resolution is exercise, exercise, exercise, but the Northern Illinois University psychology professor won't be...
Senior Chemist Mark Beno receives posthumous AAAS fellow distinction
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Mark Beno, a senior chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, has been posthumously awarded the distinction...
