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...
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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...
Chan Zuckerberg initiative awards $1.3 million to advance biomedical imaging
New grant will increase collaboration between imaging centers worldwide and fuel scientific discoveryCredit: Photo by Daniel Gütl, winner of the 2017 Euro-BioImaging "Research. Captured "...
Methanogenic microorganisms as workhorses of the industrial bioeconomy
Credit: (c) Nicole Matschiavelli The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the research consortium with a grant of more than two million...
Hungry for hutia? Our taste for Bahamas’ ‘most peaceable rodent’ shaped its diversity
Credit: Kristen Grace/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The Bahamian hutia, a large Caribbean rodent with a blissed-out disposition, presents a curious case study in how...
UT microbiologist receives DOE grant to investigate Peatland carbon processes
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Department of Energy A University of Tennessee, Knoxville, microbiologist has received a portion of a $3.1 million grant from the US...
Artificial intelligence predicts treatment outcome for diabetes-related vision loss
New algorithm poised to help doctors individualize treatment for diabetic macular edemaCredit: Sina Farsiu, Duke University WASHINGTON -- A new approach that uses artificial intelligence...
Second of its kind ‘sharpshooter’ leafhopper from Brazil ‘strikes’ with its colouration
Credit: Gabriel Mejdalani When, in 2014, Brazilian researchers stumbled across a never-before-seen red-eyed leafhopper feeding inside the rosettes of bromeliads, growing in the restingas of...
The UC3M and SENER aeroespacial work on a helicon plasma thruster for space platforms
Within the framework of the European research project HIPATIACredit: Credits: SENER Aeroespacial. The HPT is a new electric space propulsion technology that can provide a...
The universities of Bern and Zurich offer continuing education in gender-specific medicine
Credit: USZ At present, a focus on males in basic research and clinical trials means that models of disease are also based on men. Symptoms...
