Kent State biologist wins grant to study neurological roots of chronic stress and fear
Credit: Kent State University Kent State Biologist Wins Grant to Study Neurological Roots of Chronic Stress and Fear People who suffer trauma will, with few...
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IUPUI biologists use ‘mini retinas’ to better understand connection between eye and brain
Credit: Department of Biology, School of Science at IUPUI INDIANAPOLIS -- IUPUI biologists are growing 'mini retinas' in the lab from stem cells to mimic...
Rice U. scientists uncover relationship between tremors, water at the Cascadia margin
Credit: Jonathan Delph/Rice University The earthquakes are so small and deep that someone standing in Seattle would never feel them. In fact, until the early...
Mapping the chromatin landscape of human cancer
By mapping the largely uncharted chromatin landscape of primary human cancers, researchers have revealed new insights into the regulation of different cancer-related genes. Their study...
Researchers observe novel bat behavior in Panama
Credit: Thomas Hiller Baby birds learn to fly. Baby mammals switch from milk to solid food. Baby bats, as winged mammals, do both at the...
CCNY finds K-core as a predictor of structural collapse in mutualistic ecosystems
A network metric called the K-core could predict structural collapse in mutualistic ecosystems, according to research by physicists at The City College of New York....
Belgian researchers discover a novel method to block immunosuppression in cancer
Belgian research groups from the UCLouvain and WELBIO, VIB and Ghent University, and the biotechnology company argenx elucidated the three-dimensional structure of an assembly of...
CCNY study breaks Förster resonant energy transfer (FRET) distance limit
(City College of New York) Using engineered nanocomposite structures called metamaterials, a City College of New York-led research team reports the ability to measure a...
Science Agora 2018
JST (President: Michinari Hamaguchi) will be holding Science Agora 2018 in the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) and the Telecom Center Building...
Biomarkers facilitate early detection of glaucoma
The team headed by Dr. Jacqueline Reinhard and Prof. Dr. Andreas Faissner from the Department of Cell Morphology and Molecular Neurobiology in Bochum, together with...
Bacteria: Protein researchers decipher resistance mechanism
Credit: Milton Stubbs Worldwide, resistance to antibiotics is on the rise. In order to understand why bacteria are becoming immune to previously well-functioning drugs, scientists...
ICTA-UAB to design participative and concurred forest fire prevention strategies
Scientists from the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) aim to design prevention strategies for forest fires occurring...
A new process for full utilization of softwood bark
In the Finnish mechanical and chemical forest industry, three million tonnes of softwood bark are produced annually, presently mainly used for energy production. Using a...
DNA ‘dances’ in first explanation of how genetic material flows through a nucleus
Credit: D. Saintillan, M.J. Shelley and A. Zidovska/PNAS 2018 DNA flows inside a cell's nucleus in a choreographed line dance, new simulations reveal. The finding...
New role for protein could lead to novel treatments for cancer and vascular disease
Credit: EMBO Reports Researchers at York University have found a new role for a well-known protein in the body that may explain, in part, what...
