‘Gentle recovery’ of Brazil’s leatherback turtles
Credit: Banco de Imagens Projeto TAMAR Brazil's leatherback turtles are making a "gentle recovery" after 30 years of conservation efforts, new research shows. Scientists studied...
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Glowing brain cells illuminate stroke recovery research
'Optochemogenetics' removes the fiber optic cableCredit: Shan Ping Yu A promising strategy for helping stroke patients recover, transplanting neural progenitor cells to restore lost functions,...
Physicists use light waves to accelerate supercurrents, enable ultrafast quantum computing
Credit: Jigang Wang/Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - Jigang Wang patiently explained his latest discovery in quantum control that could lead to superfast computing based...
Noninvasive test improves detection of aggressive prostate cancer
50% of treatments could have been avoided using new tool, UCLA-led study finds A team of researchers from UCLA and the University of Toronto have...
Study finds electronic cigarettes damage brain stem cells
UC Riverside research on mouse neural stem cells has implications for nicotine useCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A research team at the...
Good medicine depends on diversity
Columbia University leads a national study to facilitate greater inclusion of ethnic minorities in genetic studiesCredit: Photo courtesy of National Institutes of Health Precision medicine...
‘Full of surprises’
Condensed matter theorist Cenke Xu receives 2019 Simons Investigator Award Not long ago, UC Santa Barbara condensed matter physicist Cenke Xu received one of those...
Hubble captures the galaxy’s biggest ongoing stellar fireworks show
In the mid-1800s, mariners sailing the southern seas navigated at night by a brilliant star in the constellation Carina. The star, named Eta Carinae, was...
New study solves mystery of salt buildup on bottom of Dead Sea
Credit: NASA/Hubble WASHINGTON--New research explains why salt crystals are piling up on the deepest parts of the Dead Sea's floor, a finding that could help...
Researchers discover genetic mutation behind serious skull disorder
CORVALLIS, Ore. - A collaboration led by scientists at Oregon State University, the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and Erasmus University in The...
Scissors get stuck — another way bacteria use CRISPR/Cas9
Cas9 represses gene activity, important for virulence In biotech these days, CRISPR/Cas9 is a hot topic, because of its utility as a precise gene editing...
Transformer cells: Shaping cellular ‘behaviour’
Scientists listed the most promising technologies in cell therapy Scientists from the Sechenov University, conjointly with their fellow Chinese and American researchers, have examined the...
Machine detection of human-object interaction in images and videos
Credit: Virginia Tech Jia-Bin Huang, assistant professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center,...
$3.1 million NIH grant given to create universal flu vaccine
Credit: Virginia Tech In the race to create a universal flu vaccine not dependent on predicting strains of flu, the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine's...
NASA finds winds tore Tropical Storm 04W apart
Credit: NASA/NRL Visible imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed Tropical Cyclone 04W had been torn apart from wind shear in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. On...
