SLAS Discovery releases first issue of 2020
Featured article, 'The National Cancer Institute's Plated Compound Sets Can Be a Valuable Resource for Academic Researchers,' now availableCredit: David James Group Oak Brook, IL...
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Bern and Fribourg researchers identify neurons responsible for rapid eye movements/REM during sleep
Credit: Courtesy of Carolina Gutierrez Herrera REM - Rapid Eye Movement - is not only the name of a successful American rock band, but also...
The Quantum Information Edge launches to accelerate quantum computing R&D
Credit: (Credit: sakkmesterke/Shutterstock) A nationwide alliance of national labs, universities, and industry launched today to advance the frontiers of quantum computing systems designed to solve...
UTHealth’s Cynthia Ju awarded NIH grants for liver injury research
Credit: UTHealth Tiny solutions are being sought for big liver problems by a scientist at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science...
Bark beetles control pathogenic fungi
Credit: Gernot Kunz Bark beetles control Ants and honeybees share nests of hundreds or thousands of individuals in a very small space. Hence the risk...
Developing drugs that activate defences against tumours
Bielefeld University to coordinate European research networkCredit: Photo: Bielefeld University Doctors treat tumours mainly through surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. Over the next four years, a...
Berlin’s bright sky isn’t a bat’s thing
Credit: ISS047-E-29989 courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis People can hardly imagine a city without night-time street lighting. But how do nocturnal animals such...
Prospective memory key to performance of everyday life activities in multiple sclerosis
Kessler Foundation MS researchers identify deficits in time-based prospective memory as factors adversely affecting performance of everyday life activitiesCredit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ. December...
Permanent predator-prey oscillations
Research elucidates fundamental ecological concept of predator-prey interactionsCredit: Guntram Weithoff/ University of Potsdam Predator-prey cycles are among the fundamental phenomena of ecological systems: the population...
How plant metabolites affect the ecosystem
German Research Foundation (DFG) funds new research unitCredit: Photo: Bielefeld University Plants are often very individual when it comes to their specific defence chemicals and...
Less abundant species of animals and plants are organised in ghettos to survive
Credit: Bruno Glätsch An international research team in which Spanish experts participate has shown that sparse species are associated spatially in 90 % of the...
What will you do with your body after you die? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2019 -- After you die, your body has quite a few options -- from being turned into...
Telomere research at Marshall published in Nature Communications
Credit: Marshall University HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Findings from a recent research project, conducted by a Marshall University scientist and assistant professor in the Marshall University...
Electron pulser for ultrafast electron microscopy wins 2019 R&D 100 award
This low-cost laser-free device can be retrofit into conventional transmission electron microscopes to image the dynamic behaviors of energy and biological materials over very short...
Ecological impacts of palm stearin spill to the coastal ecosystem
HKU marine ecologists reveal ecological impacts of the accidental palm stearin spill to the coastal ecosystem of Hong KongCredit: @The University of Hong Kong In...
