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A scientist from The Cleveland Museum of Natural History led research that revised the horned praying mantis group and traced ...

Tennessee’s Tyson Raper named 2018 Outstanding Young Cotton Physiologist

Credit: Ginger Rowsey, courtesy UTIA. JACKSON, Tenn. – Tyson Raper, assistant professor with the University of Tennessee Department of Plant ...

$8.9 million collaborative grant to understand how dangerous virus ‘hides’ to attack…

Credit: Jason Ryder The University of Arizona's Felicia Goodrum, PhD, and some of the nation's most prominent human cytomegalovirus researchers ...

Grant enables study of mosquito virus as a genetic lab tool, malaria biocontrol

Credit: Jason Rasgon lab A virus that infects a species of malaria-transmitting mosquito could help scientists gain a better understanding ...

Berkeley Lab gets $4.6 million in functional genomics catalog project

Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab The Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is set to receive nearly $4.6 ...

Discovery of a unique subcellular structure determining the orientation of cell division

Cell division is a fundamental process of life, producing two cells from one single cell at each cell division. During ...

ECDC rapid risk assessment outlines actions to reduce the spread of the mcr-1 gene

The recently recognised global distribution of the mcr-1 gene poses a substantial public health risk to the EU/EEA. The gene ...

Enzyme with surprising dual function

Credit: © Foto: Barbara Frommann/Uni Bonn Scientists at the University of Bonn have clarified a surprising dual function of ceramide ...

Scientists surprised to discover lymphatic ‘scavenger’…

Credit: UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience The brain has its own inbuilt processes for mopping up damaging cellular waste — ...

Over 10,000 Canadian women per year can stop taking blood thinners for unexplained clots

Credit: The Ottawa Hospital A Canadian-led research group has developed and validated a rule that could let half of women ...

Alcohol use affects levels of cholesterol regulator through…

In an analysis of the epigenomes of people and mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the National Institutes of ...

Routine hospital tool found to predict poor outcomes after liver transplantation

Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES (Aug. 10, 2017) — A routinely used hospital tool can predict which liver transplant recipients are ...

Troubling inconsistency found in dialysis testing methods — with patient care implications

Credit: Josh Barney | University of Virginia Health System A blood test used to determine the health and well-being of ...

Coagulation Sciences selects Enercon as its contract manufacturer

Credit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE — Coagulation Sciences LLC, a medical device startup that is being incubated at ...

Expanding geographic sharing of donor kidneys would increase…

Credit: University of Kansas News Service LAWRENCE — Broadening the geographic range that a number of deceased-donor kidneys would be ...

Does socioeconomic status affect women’s decisions not to continue breastfeeding?

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 26, 2017–A new study has shown that among women who ...

$8.9M collaborative grant to understand how dangerous virus ‘hides’ to attack another…

Credit: Jason Ryder The University of Arizona's Felicia Goodrum, PhD, and some of the nation's most prominent human cytomegalovirus researchers ...

Tracking effects of a food preservative on the gut microbiome

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Antimicrobial compounds added to preserve food during storage are believed to be benign and ...

Early diagnostic imaging to prevent kidney disease

Credit: Osaka University Osaka University researchers, in collaboration with several Japanese companies, translate neuroimaging tools to study renal fibrosis in ...

Aggressive form of leukemia linked to defective ‘protein factory’