Boyce Thompson Institute researchers uncover new structures at plant-fungal interface
New discovery could eventually help reduce the use of fertilizer in agricultureCredit: Jotham Austin II and R. Howard Berg For hundreds of millions of years,...
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Mini cheetah is the first four-legged robot to do a backflip
Robot's lightweight, high-power design is the perfect platform to share and play, developers sayCredit: Photo: Bryce Vickmark MIT's new mini cheetah robot is springy and...
Radiography of marine litter in Spanish waters
Credit: Santiago García Rivera Marine litter is a growing problem in the Mediterranean Sea, but few studies have focused on its composition, spatial distribution and...
Promising new pancreatic cancer treatment moves forward
SALT LAKE CITY - Even among cancers, pancreatic cancer is an especially sinister form of disease. The one-year survival rate is extremely low, and treatment...
Researchers 3D print ultra-strong steel parts from powder
Credit: US Army photo by David McNally ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Soldiers needing replacement parts may turn to 3-D printers in the future to...
Biodiversity crisis: Technological advances in agriculture are not a sufficient response
Credit: HUTAN-KOCP Leipzig, Halle. Rapid population and economic growth are destroying biological diversity - especially in the tropics. This was reported by a research team...
A common genetic signature has been discovered among three cancer prone rare skin diseases
Research lead by a lecturer at the UC3MCredit: UC3M Through a global gene expression analysis (transcriptomic), the researchers were able to find and confirm a...
New Finnish research and innovation unity promotes oat consumption and business
Oats and oat-based innovations possess a significant global potential for Finnish food industry. Therefore, we want to understand the impact of oat cultivars and oat...
Checking DNA base editor’s mistakes and tricks to reduce them
IBS-developed Digenome-seq technique reveals the accuracy of CRISPR-based editing tool that changes DNA letter A to GCredit: IBS Researchers at the Center for Genome Engineering,...
Pancreatic cancer collective comments on promising new pancreatic cancer
Credit: Lustgarten Foundation and Stand Up To Cancer Lustgarten Foundation and Stand Up To Cancer, strategic partners in the Pancreatic Cancer Collective, offer comments on...
NextCure and Yale publish Nature Medicine paper detailing novel immunomedicine target Siglec-15
-- S15 represents a potential novel target for patients not responding to current immunotherapy drugs -- -- S15 is a major immune suppressor in B7-H1-...
How new species arise in the sea
Study sheds new light on a fundamental question in evolutionary biologyCredit: Photo: Kosmas Hench/GEOMAR For a new species to evolve, two things are essential: a...
Neurodegenerative diseases identified using artificial intelligence
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence platform to detect a range of neurodegenerative disease in human brain tissue samples, including Alzheimer's disease and chronic traumatic...
New quantum sensor could improve cancer treatment
A new quantum sensor developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) has proven it can outperform existing technologies and...
Using sleep disorder to predict Parkinson’s disease
Large international study will help select and categorize patients for better clinical trialsCredit: The Neuro A large multi-centre study of more than 1,200 patients provides...
