Diabetes treatment may keep dementia, Alzheimer’s at bay
Study finds progression of dementia and Alzheimer's signature tangles are much faster in people with untreated diabetes Patients on medication for type 2 diabetes may...
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Dr. Anne Bertolotti to present at the 6th Aging Research for Drug Discovery Forum in Basel
Credit: Insilico Medicine Monday, March 25, 2019 - Today Insilico Medicine, a biotechnology company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline utilizing the next generation artificial...
Ascribe Bioscience receives SBIR award from NSF
New agbiotech startup company based on technology developed at the Boyce Thompson Institute is developing a novel seed treatment technology to protect plants against pests...
ANU scientists solve mystery shrouding oldest animal fossils
Credit: Ilya Bobrovskiy, The Australian National University (ANU) Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have discovered that 558 million-year-old Dickinsonia fossils do not reveal...
UA Physician and iTether create app for pregnant women, new moms, with opioid addiction
Credit: Sun Czar Belous PHOENIX - A cell phone app for pregnant women and new moms struggling with opioid addiction is helping them get to...
Earth’s deep mantle flows dynamically
As ancient ocean floors plunge over 1,000 km into the Earth's deep interior, they cause hot rock in the lower mantle to flow much more...
Biologists have identified ‘doppelganger’ frogs with different genes
Scientists are studying how genome protects itself from foreign DNACredit: Vladimir Vershinin Biologists have found that lake frogs of the same "appearance" have different mitochondrial...
Removal of ‘zombie cells’ alleviates causes of diabetes in obese mice
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic researchers and their collaborators have shown that when senescent cells -- also known as "zombie cells" -- are removed from...
First textbook in marine renewable energy explores harnessing ocean power
URI professor co-authors offshore renewable energy bookCredit: (URI photo/Michael Salerno) KINGSTON, R.I., -- March 21, 2019 - Offshore renewable energy is an emerging and rapidly...
Gunnerus Award goes to expert on biodiversity
Ecology professor Sandra Myrna Díaz is the winner of the 2019 Gunnerus Award in Sustainability Science.Credit: Sandra M. Díaz Professor Sandra Myrna Díaz from Argentina...
Hollings researcher receives funding to harness power of imaging
Thierry Pécot, Ph.D., a researcher at Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina, received a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to...
Studying plasma physics in exploding stars — NSF CAREER award
Credit: Virginia Tech Assistant Professor Bhuvana Srinivasan of the Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering has been selected for a National Science...
EASI Genomics: A project to provide free-of-charge access to sequencing technologies
New project in the field of genomicsCredit: © CRG 2019. All rights reserved The European Advanced infraStructure for Innovative Genomics (EASI-Genomics), a project funded under...
Extremely accurate measurements of atom states for quantum computing
Credit: Weiss Laboratory, Penn State A new method allows the quantum state of atomic "qubits"--the basic unit of information in quantum computers--to be measured with...
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Credit: Plant Biomechanics Group Freiburg The Freiburg biologists Dr. Simon Poppinga, Anna Westermeier and Prof. Dr. Thomas Speck, working in cooperation with researchers from the...
