Texas Biomed awarded $2.8 Million NIH grant for novel TB research
Mechanisms under study could lead to new host drug targetsCredit: Texas Biomed San Antonio, Texas (September 25, 2019) - Researchers at Texas Biomedical Research Institute...
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NIH new innovator award given to Wistar researcher
Credit: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA -- (Oct. 1, 2019) -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced that Zachary T. Schug, Ph.D., assistant professor...
High-fructose and high-fat diet damages liver mitochondria, study finds
Increases fatty-liver disease risk and metabolic syndromeCredit: Stephanie M. McPherson BOSTON - (October 1, 2019) - Researchers at Joslin Diabetes Center have found that high...
Earthquake in the cell
Scientists discover how a modification of the nuclear lamina maintains nuclear shapeCredit: © MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Adam Karoutas The genetic material of each...
Scientists quantify global volcanic CO2 venting; estimate total carbon on Earth
Scientists update estimates of Earth's immense interior carbon reservoirs, and how much carbon Deep Earth naturally swallows and exhalesGas sampling at Lastarria Volcano (northern Chile)...
Emerging parasitic disease mimics the symptoms of visceral leishmaniasis in people
Credit: CDC/James Gathany WHAT: A new study published this week online in Emerging Infectious Diseases suggests that transmission of a protozoan parasite from insects may...
NASA satellite sees a large Hurricane Lorenzo headed toward Azores
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Hurricane Lorenzo was heading toward the Azores Islands when NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite...
Squid-inspired robots might have environmental, propulsion applications
Scientists studied fluid mechanics to simulate and build a squidlike robot that's fast, quiet and hard to see.Credit: Qiang Zhu WASHINGTON, D.C., October 1, 2019...
Three UC San Diego researchers receive top honors with NIH Director’s Awards
Rob Knight, PhD, awarded the Pioneer Award; Omar Akbari, PhD, and Shadi Dayeh, PhD, receive the New Innovator Award, recognizing innovative approaches to biomedical researchCredit:...
Early warning signals heralded fatal collapse of Krakatau volcano
GFZ Potsdam researchers reconstruct the flank collapse event that triggered a tsunami which killed 430 people in December 2018 - new approach towards better early...
Discovery enables clear identification of diseased beta cells in type 2 diabetes
This study not only solves the problem of cell separation in the laboratory, but helps improve understanding of how type 2 diabetes progresses as a...
Record breaking observations find most remote protocluster of galaxies
Credit: NAOJ/Harikane et al. An international team of astronomers with participation by researchers from DAWN, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen has discovered a protocluster...
Modeling the complexity of the world’s water
Research team led by Pitt receives more than $1.3 million to develop 'CyberWater' modeling frameworkCredit: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH (Oct. 1, 2019) -- Understanding the...
Uncovering new therapeutic targets for airway inflammation in sickle cell disease
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 30, 2019--A new study by De, Agrawal, Morrone et al, chal-lenges the common notion that...
Beyond Einstein: Mystery surrounding photon momentum solved
Physicists at Goethe University measure miniscule effect with new super COLTRIMS apparatus / Publication in Nature PhysicsCredit: Alexander Hartung FRANKFURT. Albert Einstein received the Nobel...
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