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Credit: The American Journal of Pathology Philadelphia, April 9, 2018 - Angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels, is essential for tumor growth. A new...

Vaccination apathy fueled by decades of misinformation

A legacy of social and political factors rather than bad parenting may be influencing people's decisions not to vaccinate their children, according to a study...

Wheat research discovery yields genetic secrets that could shape future crops

Credit: CSIRO A new study has isolated a gene controlling shape and size of spikelets in wheat in a breakthrough which could help breeders deliver...

There’s no such thing as oversharing in conservation

Credit: Michigan State University Social gadflies in an organization are the new superheroes of conservation, according to a study in this month's Nature Sustainability. Conservation...

Discovery of compounds that keep plants fresh

April 8, 2018

Credit: ITbM, Nagoya University A team of scientists at Nagoya University has discovered new compounds that can control stomatal movements in plants. Some of the...

Using the past to predict the future: climate change impacts on the sagebrush sea

LOGAN, UTAH, USA- Scientists from Utah State University developed a new way to use long-term population data to model how species could respond to climate...

Fluorescent dye could enable sharper biological imaging

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HIV Cell dysfunction discovery sheds light on how virus works

Credit: Carla Shaffer / AAAS A team of chemical and biomedical engineers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin,...

OU graduate students earn NSF National Research Traineeship program fellowships

Credit: University of Oklahoma University of Oklahoma graduate students from diverse disciplines earned one-year, $34,000 fellowships in support of aeroecology and environmental sustainability rese..

Index of tumor cells opens a new perspective to prevent cancer progression

Researchers from the School of Medicine in Ribeirão Preto (FMRP), at the University of São Paulo (USP), in collaboration with international groups, have developed indices...

How pathogenic bacteria prepare a sticky adhesion protein

Credit: Yu Chen, Harvard Medical School Researchers at Harvard Medical School, the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Georgia have described how...

Smartphone ‘scores’ can help doctors track severity of Parkinson’s disease symptoms

Credit: Noam Finkelstein/Johns Hopkins U Parkinson's disease, a progressive brain disorder, is often tough to treat effectively because symptoms, such as tremors and walking difficulties,...

Research offers clues for improved influenza vaccine design

Credit: NIH WHAT: Influenza vaccines that better target the influenza surface protein called neuraminidase (NA) could offer broad protection against various influenza virus strains and...

Genetics of the modern heirs of the Incas shed new lights about their origins and lineages

Credit: Jose Sandoval A multinational South American team from Peru, Brasil and Bolivia led by the Universidad de San Martin de Porres at Lima, Peru,...

Nova-like explosion of spinning live bacteria explained