DFG announces winners of 2019 Leibniz Prizes
Germany's most prestigious research award, Awards ceremony on March 13, 2019 in Berlin The latest recipients of Germany's most prestigious research prize have been announced....
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Colorado River Delta report provides restoration road map
International Boundary and Water Commission releases report on four-year scientific study by a University of Arizona-led binational teamCredit: Ernesto García Arvizu, Universidad Autónoma de Baja...
Control HIV by treating schistosomiasis, new study suggests
Credit: Wetzel and Shaefer, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain, 2001 Of the 34 million people worldwide with HIV, and the 200 million with schistosomiasis, the majority...
NIH scientists find that breast cancer protection from pregnancy starts decades later
Breast cancer risk remains elevated 20-30 years after childbirthCredit: NIEHS In general, women who have had children have a lower risk of breast cancer compared...
Open science and data initiative announced for neurofibromatosis
Major research funders join together to advance research into genetic disorderCredit: Children's Tumor Foundation New York/Baltimore/Seattle - The Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF), together with the...
DFG to fund 9 new Research Units and 1 Clinical Research Unit
Topics range from rheumatoid arthritis to the effects of volcanic eruptions on the Earth's climate system; approximately €28 million for the first funding period The...
A painless adhesive
Adhesives for biomedical applications can be detached with lightCredit: (Video courtesy of Zhigang Suo/Harvard SEAS) Pulling off a Band-Aid may soon get a lot less...
Building an AI to predict if you carry a killer on your skin
Staphylococcus epidermidis is an ubiquitous colonizer of healthy human skin, but it is also a notorious source of serious nosocomial infections with indwelling devices and...
A summary of electrospun nanofibers as drug delivery system
This article by Dr. José Manuel Cornejo Bravo et al. is published in Current Drug Delivery, Volume 15 , Issue 10 , 2018Credit: José Manuel...
Breastfeeding for more than 6 months associated with smaller maternal waist circumference
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 14, 2018--Breastfeeding for more than 6 months was found to be independently associated with smaller...
Two UTA researchers elected fellows of National Academy of Inventors
National honorsCredit: UT Arlington Two leading University of Texas at Arlington faculty have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, bringing the total...
HIV vaccine protects non-human primates from infection
LA JOLLA, CA - For more than 20 years, scientists at Scripps Research have chipped away at the challenges of designing an HIV vaccine. Now...
Folate deficiency creates hitherto unknown problems in connection with cell division
Folate deficiency creates more problems in connection with DNA replication than researchers had hitherto assumed, researchers from the University of Copenhagen show in a new...
There is hope amidst environmental anxiety, says a scholar of ecotheology
Credit: Mika Federley, University of Helsinki Eco-anxiety encompasses difficult emotions experienced to a significant degree due to environmental issues. Environmental researcher Panu Pihkala says that...
Wiring diagram of the brain provides a clearer picture of brain scan data
Researchers use connectome to reconcile seemingly inconsistent neuroimaging findings BOSTON - Already affecting more than five million Americans older than 65, Alzheimer's disease is on...
