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Credit: Caltech Caltech scientists have created a strain of bacteria that can make small but energy-packed carbon rings that are ...

NUS engineers pioneer greener and cheaper technique for biofuel production

Credit: National University of Singapore A team of engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently discovered that a ...

OIST to harness energy from ocean waves in the Maldives

Credit: OIST The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with ...

It’s all about the (stem cell) neighborhood

Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School Stem cells have the ability to develop, or differentiate, into the many different cell types in ...

Bertarelli Symposium 2018 to tackle the mysteries of the senses

Our senses -- vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, pain -- form the very foundation of our ability to understand and ...

Better roads essential for safer cycling

Credit: QUT CARRS-Q A QUT-led study of Queensland motorists and cyclists recommends that efforts to improve cyclist safety during overtaking ...

Climate change is wreaking havoc on delicate relationship between orchids and bees

Credit: University of Sussex The first definitive demonstration of climate change upsetting the vital interdependent relationships between species has been ...

New immunotherapy for lung cancer shows promise of success

Credit: Sarah Pack, Medical University of South Carolina In a groundbreaking development, results from a recent clinical trial to treat ...

An index measures similarity between cancer cells and pluripotent stem cells

The theory that cancer progression involves the acquisition by tumor cells of features similar to those of stem cells has ...

Columbia scientists build better way to decode the genome

Credit: Credit: Mann Lab/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute The genome is the body's instruction manual. It contains the raw information -- in ...

Attention deficit disorders could stem from impaired brain coordination

Credit: CWRU School of Medicine Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and colleagues have discovered how two ...

Research predicts likelihood of HIV testing based on race, sex/gender & sexual orientation

A new study has identified factors that lead to increased HIV testing among young adults, specifically how a person's race, ...

X-linked genes help explain why boys of all ages face higher respiratory risk

Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON - Human airways already demonstrate gender-based differences in DNA methylation signatures at birth, providing ...

More dairy associated with higher bone density and greater spine strength in men over 50

BOSTON -- Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife's Institute for Aging Research (IFAR), Wageningen University, Tilburg University, University of Reading, and Beth ...

National Foundation for Cancer research scientists among the National Academy of Inventors’ class

BETHESDA, MD - In an event this afternoon at the historic Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, two funded scientists of ...

Parents struggle to discuss sex with LGBTQ teens

'My challenge is I have no idea what sex is really like for men, especially for gay men' Parents don't ...

MRI analysis with machine learning predicts impairment after spinal injury, study shows

Leesburg, VA, April 2, 2018 - A test of machine-learning algorithms shows promise for computer-aided prognosis of acute spinal cord ...

Injecting gene cocktail into mouse pancreas leads to humanlike tumors

Credit: Dr. Bruno Doiron/UT Health San Antonio Novel technology developed at UT Health San Antonio gives rise to mouse pancreatic ...

‘Sleeping’ stem cells could aid brain repair