Critical collections
More than a century ago, when botanists and naturalists were in the field collecting plant and animal specimens, they couldn't have imagined that scientists would...
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White matter pathway and individual variability in human stereoacuity
Credit: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Researchers in the Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), the National Institute of Information and...
Repurposing FDA-approved drugs can help fight back breast cancer
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Screening Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved compounds for their ability to stop cancer growth in the lab led to the...
Internists and Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health awarded grant
Washington, DC (November 19, 2018) -- Advancing racial equity in their climate resilience work is the goal of two medical organizations recently accepted for a...
UB spinoff Cytocybernetics looks to move into new market with funding from NIH
Credit: Sandra Kicman / University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Cytocybernetics, a University at Buffalo spinoff, has received a $250,000 Small Business Innovation Research award...
Identification of LZTR1 leads to novel insights into RAS-driven diseases
Mutations in RAS proteins initiate many of the most aggressive tumors, and the search for pharmacological inhibitors of these proteins has become a priority in...
Google data shows public interest in conservation is rising
PRINCETON, N.J.--The public's interest in conservation is rising, according to a new analysis led by Princeton University. Based on an adapted version of Google Trends...
Study links social isolation to higher risk of death
A large American Cancer Society study links social isolation with a higher risk of death from all causes combined and heart disease for all races...
New research questions role of gut parasite in intestinal diseases such as IBS
New University of Kent-led research on the way a common gut parasite behaves could help lead to a better understanding of its role in the...
Computational chemistry supports research on new semiconductor technologies
Credit: Image: Aaron Beller As new methods have become available for understanding and manipulating matter at its most fundamental levels, researchers working in the interdisciplinary...
Vine compound starves cancer cells
Credit: Pictures: Severin Muyisa / Suresh Awale Professor Gerhard Bringmann, an expert in natural product chemistry, and his team from the Institute of Organic Chemistry...
RUDN chemists made an electrode for hydrogen fuel production out of Chinese flour
A RUDN chemist developed a new method of obtaining a porous carbon material on the basis of Chinese flour and water. The samples of the...
Hidden giants in forest soils
Credit: Jeff Blanchard Characterizing the diversity of microbial cells in a handful of soil is so complex it was considered impossible. To date, only a...
Duke forms prototype of robot dog nose
DURHAM, N.C. -- Every day, thousands of trained K9 dogs sniff out narcotics, explosives and missing people across the United States. These dogs are invaluable...
Insilico Medicine to present ‘Cure a disease in a year’ challenge at BioDataWorld 2018
Credit: Insilico Medicine Friday, November 16 - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company developing the end-to-end drug discovery and real world evidence pipeline utilizing the next...
