Airline industry could fly thousands of miles on biofuel from a new promising feedstock
Credit: Claire Benjamin/University of Illinois A Boeing 747 burns one gallon of jet fuel each second. A recent analysis from ...
UAlberta chemist creates next generation of neuroscience tools
UAlberta chemistry professor Robert Campbell is developing new ways to see and manipulate the activity of neurons in the brain, ...
These mutations could be key to understanding how some harmful conditions develop
A team of researchers led by a bioinformatician at the University of California San Diego has developed a method to ...
As athletes collide in arenas this fall, NJIT concussion experts look to assess and heal
Credit: NJIT Amid the adrenaline rush and dreams of glory in sports arenas large and small this fall, there will ...
The evolutionary origin of the gut
Credit: Sabrina Kaul-Strehlow, Patrick Steinmetz How did the gut, the skin and musculature evolve? This question concerns scientists for more ...
Muscle nuclei: May the force be with you
Credit: Image and video: William Roman, Edgar Gomes Lab Concept and animation: Ana de Barros, iMM Lisboa A group of ...
Cold region ‘tipping point’ now inevitable
Credit: Juha Aalto The decline of cold regions called periglacial zones is now inevitable due to climate change, researchers say. ...
Livestock production, a much smaller challenge to global food security than often reported
Credit: GLEAM 2.0 Philadelphia, PA, September 11, 2017 - Humans face mounting challenges when it comes to finding ways to ...
Half-a-billion-year-old fossils shed light animal evolution on earth
Credit: University of Bristol Scientists have discovered traces of life more than half-a-billion years old that could change the way ...
Biodiversity just as powerful as climate change for healthy ecosystems
Credit: Emmett Duffy/Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Biodiversity is proving to be one of humanity's best defenses against extreme weather and ...
Northeastern biophysics study makes exciting advancements for the future of DNA sequencing
Credit: Image courtesy of Ella Maru Studio A Northeastern research team has developed new technology that optimizes DNA sequencing using ...
Springer Nature pioneers charitable incentive system for peer reviewers
Peer reviewers are enabling people in developing countries to access safe drinking water as the result of a collaboration between ...
Crapemyrtle pest to be targeted by $3.3 million grant to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension
Credit: (Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service photo by Kathleen Phillips) COLLEGE STATION -- The most popular flowering shrub in the ...
How liver cancer develops
Credit: USZ Liver cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related death and represents the fastest rising cancer worldwide. In most ...
Toxicologists recommend human cell-based methods to identify asthma-causing chemicals
Credit: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Chemicals that could potentially cause asthma through an immune reaction could be better identified ...
Biotech hormone reduces cost of inducing ovulation in livestock
A Brazilian startup called Kimera Biotecnologia, based in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, has produced the first biotech version of equine chorionic ...
Scientists construct first predictive model of inflammatory bowel disease
STAMFORD, Conn. & NEW YORK, NY -- September 11, 2017 -- Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount ...
Georgetown hosts global health security expert Beth Cameron
WASHINGTON (Sept. 11, 2017) - Georgetown University's Center for Global Health Science and Security and the Georgetown Global Health Initiative ...
Protein research could help in hunt for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s cures
Credit: University of Kent Protein research at University of Kent could help in hunt for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's cures Research ...
The business of bioanalysis: Expert panel addresses hot topics in industry
Filmed at the 11th WRIB (Los Angeles, CA, USA, 3-7 April 2017), the series covers conversation between Scott Fountain (Charles ...
