Showtime for photosynthesis
One of nature's most important chemical reactions is now being captured in a breakthrough 'molecular movie'Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Using a unique combination...
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Mona Ghassemi receives award from Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Credit: Virginia Tech United States government agencies, including the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and NASA, all have aircraft or spacecraft engaged in...
Technology for cloud efficiency for databases during data-intensive COVID-19 pandemic
Credit: Purdue University/Somali Chaterji WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University data science and machine learning innovator wants to help organizations and users get the...
Psoriasis patients’ mental health is more than skin-deep
Credit: Peter Istvan Treatment of the common disease psoriasis, usually focuses on treating the skin. However, psoriasis patients often have other physical diseases that can...
Not children, but ‘super-happy families’ the aim of assisted reproduction
Credit: Linköping University Researcher Judith Lind has studied how staff at fertility clinics view the assessments that childless couples and women undergo in order to...
International study approaches new therapeutic strategies for lung cancer
Recently published in Nature Communications, the study advances in the evolution of resistance to different tumor inhibitors with a view to developing more effective therapies...
New microscopy method provides unprecedented look at amyloid protein structure
Measuring the location and orientation of single molecules could provide new insights into Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseasesCredit: Tianben Ding, Tingting Wu and Matthew D. Lew,...
How efficient are solar power storage systems?
'Testbench' project improves quality of measurement results and facilitates comparisonCredit: Photo: Shutterstock/Victor Josan More and more photovoltaic systems are equipped with batteries that store power...
Alien frog invasion wreaks havoc on natural habitat
A warning on World Environment DayCredit: Christine Taylor Indiscriminate feeding by an alien population of the carnivorous spotted-thighed frog - could severely affect the native...
Scientists aim gene-targeting breakthrough against COVID-19
Cellular delivery system developed at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry could be missing link in battle against SARS-CoV-2Credit: R.N. Zuckermann A team of scientists from Stanford...
Study ties stroke-related brain blood vessel abnormality to gut bacteria
NIH funded study supports link between high levels of gram-negative bacteria and a stroke- seizure- and headache-inducing vascular malformationCredit: Courtesy of Awad lab University of...
Discovery of a novel gene involved in DNA damage repair and male fertility
Clarifying the mechanisms for meiotic recombination in sperm productionCredit: Dr. Kei-ichiro Ishiguro A research group from the Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics (IMEG) at...
Small see-through container improves plant micrografting
Credit: The Plant Journal A type of plant grafting needing a tremendous amount of precision and skill has now been made faster and easier thanks...
Intranasal delivery of MSCs provides hope for treating Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: AlphaMed Press Durham, NC - In the search for a cure for Alzheimer's disease, mesenchymal stem cells and their derived extracellular vesicles (MSC-EVs) offer...
Immune from chronic stress? Limit inflammatory signaling to specific brain circuits
Study sheds light on neuroinflammation and psychological disordersCredit: Florida Atlantic University Anxiety and depression are significantly heightened during times of great stress such as the...