Scientists engineer unique ‘glowing’ protein
Credit: Vera Nazarenko et al. Biophysicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have joined forces with colleagues from France and Germany to create...
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Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation announces the first award recipients of its Diagnostics Accelerator Program
First award recipients of $50 Million research program -- created to address urgent need for rapid, affordable, and easy-to-use diagnostic tests/biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease and...
Boston College biologist awarded grant by the Knights Templar Eye Foundation
$65,000 award will support research into parasite toxoplasma gondiiCredit: Peter Julian/Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass. (5/30/2019) - Boston College biologist Klemens Engelberg has been awarded...
Fishing among worst jobs for health
People working in the fishing industry have among the poorest health of all workers in England and Wales, new research suggests. University of Exeter researchers...
Insilico Medicine to present at the CogX Festival of AI and Emerging Technology
Credit: Insilico Medicine Thursday, May 30, 2019 - Insilico Medicine, a biotech company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline utilizing the next generation artificial intelligence,...
Unknown mini-proteins in the heart
Credit: Franziska Trnka, MDC A team led by Professor Norbert Hübner's MDC research group has observed the human heart cells' "protein factories" in action, examining...
NICER’s night moves trace the X-ray sky
Credit: NASA/NICER In this image, numerous sweeping arcs seem to congregate at various bright regions. You may wonder: What is being shown? Air traffic routes?...
Scientists demonstrate plant stress memory and adaptation capabilities
Credit: Victor Bulgakov Russian and Taiwanese scientists have discovered a connection between the two signalling systems that help plants survive stress situations, demonstrating that they...
‘Slothbot’ takes a leisurely approach to environmental monitoring
Credit: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech For environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, infrastructure maintenance and certain security applications, slow and energy efficient can be better than fast...
IU cancer researcher, collaborators earn $4.1 million grant from Cancer Moonshot
Credit: Memorial Sloan Kettering INDIANAPOLIS -- A team of researchers from Indiana University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have been awarded a $4.1 million...
Resistance to Fusarium head blight holding in Illinois, study says
Credit: Fred Kolb, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Illinois wheat growers, take heart. A new University of Illinois study shows no evidence of a...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope emerges successfully from final thermal vacuum test
Credit: Northrop Grumman NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has successfully cleared another critical testing milestone, taking this ambitious observatory one step closer to its 2021...
Novel protocol significantly improves outcomes in locally advanced pancreatic cancer
Combination of intensive chemotherapy, radiation therapy and blood-pressure drug losartan allows surgical removal of previously unresectable tumors, extends patient survival Locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC)...
Towards a new era of small animal imaging research
A collaborative study between McGill University and the University of Antwerp allows PET scanning on animals without the use of anesthesia. Have you ever spent...
Dyson-Hudson receives grant to study treatment for shoulder injuries in wheelchair users
The New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research awarded a $549,000 grant to Trevor Dyson-Hudson, MD, of Kessler Foundation; the grant is one of three...
