The truth about catnip (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 2017 -- Catnip is notorious for its euphoric effects on our feline ...
USC publishes results of a fasting mimicking diet that may reverse diabetes
Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 23, 2017 - A landmark study published today in Cell finds that providing mice with a ...
New paper published in Phytobiomes may lead to novel methods of Rhizoctonia solani control
Credit: The American Phytopathological Society St. Paul, Minn. (February 2017)--Rhizoctonia species--and R. solani specifically--are a complex group of soil fungi ...
Almost 4 decades later, mini eyeless catfish gets a name
Credit: Courtesy of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. After almost four decades, an elusive, eyeless catfish measuring ...
Nematode resistance in soybeans beneficial even at low rates of infestation
Credit: USDA-ARS URBANA, Ill. - Each spring, tiny roundworms hatch and wriggle over to the nearest soybean root to feed. ...
NASA sees another quick Tropical Cyclone demise in South Pacific
Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of the end of Tropical Cyclone 8P as it was being ...
Study reveals PGK1 enzyme as therapeutic target for deadliest brain cancer
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Discovery of a dual role played by the enzyme phosphoglycerate kinase 1 (PGK1) may indicate ...
Researchers uncover a role for HSP90 in gene-environment interactions in humans
February 23, 2017 (Cambridge, MA) -- Proteins do most of the work inside the human body, supporting the structure, function, ...
Gene mutations cause leukemia, but which ones?
Kevin Watanabe-Smith, Ph.D., likens cell mutations to typos in text messages. "Mutations are part of life. They are mistakes in ...
Boston researcher receives global surgery award
(Boston)--Maunil Bhatt, MD, a post graduate resident in the Department of Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston ...
New gene sequencing software could aid in early detection, treatment of cancer
Credit: Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University A research team from the United States and Canada has developed and successfully tested new ...
New link found between sex and viruses
Credit: Felix Rey, Pasteur Institute Sexual reproduction and viral infections actually have a lot in common. According to new research, ...
Hitching a ride with a predator
Credit: Kate Broadley and Clayton Lamb EDMONTON (Under embargo until Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 10 a.m. MST)--In the middle ...
PERK protein opens line of communication between inside and outside of the cell
Credit: KU Leuven - Alex van Vliet PERK is known to detect protein folding errors in the cell. Researchers at ...
Diving deep into the dolphin genome could benefit human health
Credit: NOAA In movies and TV shows, dolphins are often portrayed as heroes who save humans through remarkable feats of ...
Vast luminous nebula poses a cosmic mystery
Credit: Cai et al., Astrophysical Journal (Figure 2) Astronomers have found an enormous, glowing blob of gas in the distant ...
Julia Hirschberg elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Credit: Jeffrey Schifman/Columbia Engineering Professor Julia Hirschberg has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the ...
Brains of the operation — NASA team develops modular avionics systems for small missions
Credit: Credits: NASA/W. Hrybyk In just two years' time, a team of NASA engineers accomplished what some thought impossible: the ...
UC researchers teach drones to land themselves on moving targets
Credit: UC Creative Services/Andrew Higley The buzzword in drone research is autonomous -- having the unmanned aerial vehicle do most ...
Direct-to-consumer genomics: Harmful or empowering?
Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS -- Thanks to recent scientific advances and plunging costs in genetic sequencing, consumers now ...
