UC San Diego signs MOU with Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation at Kobe
Credit: FBRI The University of California San Diego and the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation at Kobe (FBRI) have entered into a five-year memo...
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SwRI improves structural health monitoring with magnetostrictive transducer
Credit: Image Courtesy of Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Oct. 29, 2018 -- A new, more powerful generation of a patented Southwest Research Institute...
Illinois study provides whole-system view of plant cold stress
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - When temperatures drop, plants can't bundle up. Stuck outside, exposed, plants instead undergo a series...
Plant-based ‘road salt’ good for highways but not for insects
New Orleans (October 29, 2018)--Beet juice deicer, a natural alternative to road salt that is considered to be an eco-friendlier winter road management solution, may...
Crystals that clean natural gas
Credit: © 2018 KAUST Removing the troublesome impurities of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and carbon dioxide (CO2) from natural gas could become simpler and more effective...
Beyond 1984: narrow focus on wildfire trends underestimates future risks to water security
Credit: Chris Brown/Utah State University Dramatic increases in wildfire over the last few decades have garnered considerable media attention. Numerous headlines have claimed that the...
New platform based on biology and nanotechnology carries mRNA directly to target cells
Credit: Nuphar Veiga/American Friends of Tel Aviv University. Delivering an effective therapeutic payload to specific target cells with few adverse effects is considered by many...
Hidden costs of disease to greater Yellowstone elk
Credit: Mark Gocke/Wyoming Game and Fish Department For decades researchers have known that a bacterial disease in elk, bison and cattle in the Greater Yellowstone...
Study sheds light on why a warmer world may equal a wetter Arctic
Credit: Douglas Levere / University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the globe, and as it does,...
Deconstructing the superfood that determines honeybee hierarchy
Katharina Paschinger's father, a conservation chemist in Vienna, was a devoted beekeeper. Paschinger remembers fondly that he would bring royal jelly, an important food for...
Imaging collaboration sheds new light on cancer growth
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have uncovered new insights into how the normal controls on cell growth are...
Anti-cancer virus fits tumor receptor like a ‘key in a lock’
Credit: OIST and University of Otago Seneca Valley Virus sounds like the last bug you'd want to catch, but it could be the next breakthrough...
RNA-protein network may explain why melanoma grows more
Credit: Nobuhiro Takahashi With 5-year survival rates being around 30% for patients with distant metastatic disease, cutaneous melanoma is the leading cause of skin cancer...
Cancer’s most deadly assassin exists in every cell
Kill code is triggered by chemotherapy Potential to trigger kill code without using chemotherapy, avoiding side effects 'I want to utilize a mechanism that nature...
Biologists discover source for boosting tumor cell drug sensitivity
Credit: Manqing Li, Michael David Lab, UC San Diego DNA-damaging agents, or "DDAs," make up the most widely used group of cancer drugs. Yet their...
