Light-engineered bacterial shapes could hold key to future labs-on-a-chip
Credit: Frangipane et al., 2018 Scientists have used light patterns to control the swimming speed of bacteria and direct them to form different shapes, according...
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NSF awards grant to Portland State for state-of-the-art instrument
Portland State University investigators from the Departments of Chemistry and Biology have received a $350,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a state-of-the-art liquid...
Substances associated with bee ferocity are discovered
Credit: Iago Bueno da Silva / UNESP Brazilian researchers may have discovered why Africanized honeybees are so aggressive. The scientists detected higher levels of certain...
Scientists get new tool to track new pathogen killing frogs
Credit: University of Central Florida An undergraduate researcher has developed a method to screen frogs for an infectious disease that has been linked to mass...
Snake fungal disease alters skin microbiome in eastern Massasaugas
Credit: Photo by Michael Dreslik In the first study of its kind, researchers characterized the skin microbiome of a population of free-ranging snakes to begin...
Lipid droplets play crucial roles beyond fat storage
Credit: University of Rochester image / Zhihuan Li Lipid droplets: they were long thought of merely as the formless blobs of fat out of which...
Research brief: UMN researchers use green gold to rapidly detect and identify harmful bacteria
Researchers from the University of Minnesota (UMN) have developed a method to screen and identify harmful or antibiotic-resistant bacteria within one hour using a portable...
When mixing granular matter, order among disorder
Mixing liquids is easy, or at least scientifically understood: a drop of food coloring will eventually mix into a cup of water through diffusion, and...
Model way to protect trees
Oak processionary moth and ash dieback are among the most notorious tree pests and diseases intro-duced into the UK. And many exotic pests and diseases...
Rare cancer could be caught early using simple blood tests
Credit: Wikipedia Commons A pioneering study into myeloma, a rare cancer, could lead to GPs using simple blood tests to improve early diagnosis. The study...
Researchers predict risk for common deadly diseases from millions of genetic variants
Credit: Lauren Solomon A research team at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Harvard Medical School reports a new...
Researchers uncover a major new vulnerability of childhood leukemia
Credit: Kateřina Čermáková Childhood leukemia is a diagnosis that no family ever wants to endure. While the treatment of most types of leukemia has improved...
MD Anderson and Accelerator Life Science Partners launch Magnolia Neurosciences
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Accelerator Life Science Partners, a leading life science investment and management firm, today announced the launch...
Disrupted nitrogen metabolism might spell cancer
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Nitrogen is a basic building block of all the body's proteins, RNA and DNA, so cancerous tumors are greedy for...
Blood test could detect kidney cancer up to 5 years earlier
Scientists have discovered that a marker in the blood could help predict the risk that a person will develop kidney cancer, according to research* published...
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