Warming ocean, old-forest loss put a squeeze on an elusive seabird
Credit: Photo courtesy OSU College of Forestry CORVALLIS, Ore. - Squeezed by changing ocean conditions that limit their food options and the long-term loss of...
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Just add water: Biodiversity resurgence in effluent-fed desert riverbeds
Dragonflies, mayflies and caddisflies may be small, but their appearance could signal a big comeback for the beleaguered rivers of the American SouthwestCredit: Courtesy of...
The co-occurrence of cancer driver genes, key to precision medicine
Researchers from the Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology Laboratory at IRB Barcelona develop a system to predict tumour response to different treatments.Credit: SBNB lab (IRB...
Researchers find new way to protect plants from fungal infection
Credit: Perino et al. in Phytopathology Widespread fungal disease in plants can be controlled with a commercially available chemical that has been primarily used in...
Ecologists confirm Alan Turing’s theory for Australian fairy circles
International research team led by Göttingen University shows patterned vegetation regenerates by "ecosystem engineering" of the grassesCredit: S Getzin, University of Göttingen Fairy circles are...
Wels catfish genome assembled
Credit: Anti Vasemägi/EMÜ An international research team led by scientists from Estonian University of Life Sciences has for the first time sequenced and assembled the...
CSU secures $3.1 million from NIH to advance SolaVAX coronavirus vaccine research
Credit: Ron Bend/Colorado State University A team of scientists at Colorado State University was awarded a base contract worth $3.1 million from the National Institutes...
ALSA Ventures closes US $59 million European Biotech Venture Capital Fund
ALSA Ventures today announced first closing of its European biotechnology investment fund with commitments of US$59M.Credit: ALSA Ventures London, UK - ALSA Ventures today announced...
BioCanRx invests $10 million in promising new cancer immunotherapy research and biomanufacturing
Funding will move novel cancer technologies from the lab to the clinicCredit: BioCanRx OTTAWA, ON (Tuesday, September 22, 2020, 8 a.m. ET) - BioCanRx, Canada's...
Thin and ultra-fast photodetector sees the full spectrum
Researchers have developed the world's first photodetector that can see all shades of light, in a prototype device that radically shrinks one of the most...
Cincinnati Children’s scientists identify hormone that might help treat malabsorption
Human intestinal organoids grown from stem cells used to model congenital disorder in babiesCredit: Heather A. McCauley, PhD/Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Scientists at Cincinnati...
Web resources bring new insight into COVID-19
Credit: CDC Researchers around the world are a step closer to a better understanding of the intricacies of COVID-19 thanks to two new web resources...
New drug candidate found for hand, foot and mouth disease
Targeting RNA with small molecules could pave the way for new antiviralsCredit: Courtesy of the Hargrove lab DURHAM, N.C. -- A study appearing next week...
Diabetes dramatically reduces the kidney’s ability clean itself
Credit: Kim Ratliff, Augusta University photographer AUGUSTA, Ga. (September 22, 2020) - The kidneys often become bulky and dysfunctional in diabetes, and now scientists have...
Dr. Malene Hansen receives 2020 BIG Award
Hansen is the first scientist to receive grants in four different award categories offered by AFARCredit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. Malene Hansen, Ph.D.,...