Relieving antibiotic resistance: Researchers take steps toward new treatment for E. coli
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan. -- By understanding the functional differences between proteins expressed by two E. coli strains, ...
NSF funds new multidisciplinary approaches to study the brain
Credit: Homewood Photography The National Science Foundation (NSF) made 19 awards to cross-disciplinary teams from across the United States to ...
One step closer in explaining MS relapse during upper respiratory infection
Credit: Lauren D. Quinn URBANA, Ill. - For most of us, the flu is just the flu. We suffer through ...
Gulf Research Program announces 2017 Early-Career Research and Science Policy Fellowships
WASHINGTON - The Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today announced the recipients of ...
New scanning process allows unprecedented look inside live insects
Credit: Danny Poinapen/Western University, London, Canada Until now, insects have been too wriggly to make good subjects for scientists wanting ...
Laser mapping project shows effects of physical changes in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys
Credit: David Haney Researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) have publicly released high-resolution maps of Antarctica's McMurdo Dry ...
Scientists restore youthful plasticity to the brains of adult mice
Credit: Elissa Pastuzyn Like much of the rest of the body, the brain loses flexibility with age, impacting the ability ...
Local collaboration key to protecting pollinators while managing ticks, mosquitoes
Annapolis, MD; Aug. 3, 2017 -- Managing mosquito and tick populations and protecting the health of pollinators are growing concerns ...
Warm periods in the 20th century are not unprecedented during the last 2,000 years
Credit: Yang Liu & Jingyun Zheng A great deal of evidence relating to ancient climate variation is preserved in proxy ...
Swedish researchers and global fishing companies form coalition for sustainable seas
Credit: Photo: Wikimedia commons The initiative marks the first time that companies from Asia, Europe and the US have joined ...
Protein critical to early stages of cellular HIV infection identified
Credit: Department of Molecular Virology,TMDU Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU)-led researchers identify a protein critical to the early stages ...
Multi-nutrient rice against malnutrition
Nearly every second person eats primarily rice to meet the daily calorie needs. A meal of rice stops the hunger, ...
Power-to-liquid: 200 liters of fuel from solar power and the air’s carbon dioxide
Credit: Photo: VTT Production of liquid fuels from regenerative electric power is a major component of the energy turnaround. The ...
New battery is activated by your spit
Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York BINGHAMTON, NY - Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York ...
Sleep makes it possible for babies to associate words with content — and not with noise
Credit: MPI CBS While babies sleep, astonishing processes take place in their brains. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for ...
No longer water under the bridge, statistics yields new data on sea levels
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (August 8, 2017) - While the scientific community has long warned about rising sea levels and their destructive ...
Research-focused UH biotech program to expand nationally
Credit: University of Houston An innovative approach integrating classroom instruction and research at the University of Houston will be spread ...
Asian hornet to colonize UK within 2 decades without action
Credit: National Bee Unit Honey bees across Europe have been impacted by Asian hornet since it first arrived in France ...
Newly discovered pathway for pain processing could lead to new treatments
The discovery of a new biological pathway involved in pain processing offers hope of using existing cancer drugs to replace ...
Dopaminergic neurons derived from iPSCs in non-human primate model
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 8, 2017-Researchers have demonstrated the ability to generate dopaminergic neurons ...
