Study: Antibiotics destroy immune cells and worsen oral infection
New research shows that the body's own microbes are effective in maintaining immune cells and killing certain oral infections. A team of Case Western Reserve...
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How reliable are turtles for measuring ocean trash and marine health?
Credit: Bo Blinski Master Honu When a sea turtle turns up dead on the beach, it often makes the news, especially if the death appears...
Once majestic Atlantic Forest ’empty’ after 500 years of over-exploitation
New research finds that 500 years of over-exploitation has halved mammal populations in South America's once majestic Atlantic Forest. A new analysis of mammal populations...
Fuels without fossils
Credit: University of Delaware Two chemical engineers at the University of Delaware are developing new, better ways to produce fuels from sunlight. Feng Jiao, associate...
Transforming carbon dioxide
Credit: Feng Jiao A team of researchers at the University of Delaware's Center for Catalytic Science and Technology (CCST) has discovered a novel two-step process...
UM chemist, students take flight with groundbreaking wildfire emission study
Credit: Ali Akherati. MISSOULA - Most aircraft slicing through the smoke above wildfires either drop water or smokejumpers in an effort to manage fire on...
The grim, final days of a mother octopus
Credit: Yan Wang, UChicago Octopuses are the undisputed darlings of the science internet, and for good reason. They're incredibly intelligent problem-solvers and devious escape artists...
$2.8 million federal grant awarded to TGen-UNM consortium to address diabetic blindness
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Sept. 25, 2018 -- Diabetes is an increasing global epidemic that is expected to grow by more than 50 percent in the...
NIH-funded genome centers to accelerate precision medicine discoveries
Credit: National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health. The All of Us Research Program awarded funds totaling $28.6 million to establish three genome...
Study finds that enzymes ‘partner up’ to accelerate cancer, aging diseases
Credit: Zach Donnell BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A new study from molecular biologists at Indiana University has identified cellular processes that appear to supercharge both the...
How leaves talk to roots
Credit: Katharina Markmann New findings show that a micro RNA from the shoot keeps legume roots susceptible to symbiotic infection by downregulating a gene that...
Diversity in the brain — how millions of neurons become unique
Credit: Image: University of Basel, Biozentrum How is it possible that so many different and highly specific neurons arise in the brain? A mathematic model...
The crazy dance of falling knots
Credit: Source: P. Szymczak, UW Physics Can the topology of microobjects influence the way they move in a fluid? Experiments and simulations of Polish and...
NSF grant awarded to UTSA to train diverse leaders in environmental science and ecology
Developing the next generation of dynamic science leaders from diverse student populations is the goal of a three-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) award to...
Funded by new tax credits, US carbon-capture network could double global CO2 headed underground
Credit: Images by Ryan Edwards, Princeton University With the right public infrastructure investment, the United States could as much as double the amount of carbon...
