Doing right by the whales
These are not good times for the North Atlantic right whale. Ship strikes and gear entanglement play major roles in the mortality of these highly...
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PNNL technology clears way for ethanol-derived jet fuel
Credit: PNNL/Andrea Starr RICHLAND, Wash. -- ASTM International recently revised ASTM D7566 Annex A5 -- the Standard Specification for Aviation Turbine Fuel Containing Synthesized Hydrocarbons...
Stanford nectar research sheds light on ecological theory
Credit: Manpreet Dhami, Tadashi Fukami and Lydia-Marie Jouber A sticky drop of nectar clinging to the tip of a hummingbird's beak drips into the next...
Volcanic activity, declining ocean oxygen triggered mass extinction of ancient organisms
Credit: Stephen Bilenky TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Global climate change, fueled by skyrocketing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, is siphoning oxygen from today's oceans at an...
Orange peels may hold secret to airborne medicine, safer bridges
Credit: Dr. Andrew Dickerson's lab Bartenders and cooks have long recognized the value of an orange twist, but thanks to researchers at the University of...
Making the oxygen we breathe, a photosynthesis mechanism exposed
Credit: Georgia Tech / Brumfield / Barry Lab Arguably, the greatest fueler of life on our planet is photosynthesis, but understanding its labyrinthine chemistry, powered...
Researchers identify new gene changes that point to elevated prostate cancer risk
As the result of a six-year long research process, Fredrick R. Schumacher, PhD, a cancer epidemiology researcher at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine,...
Children’s Tumor Foundation Drug Discovery Awards announced
The Children's Tumor Foundation (CTF), the largest non-governmental funder of neurofibromatosis (NF) research, and PLOS ONE, a leading peer-reviewed scientific journal, are pleased to announce...
Large-scale study indicates novel, abundant nitrogen-fixing microbes in surface ocean
Credit: Delmont et al (2018) Nature Microbiology, doi: 10.1038/s41564-018-0176-9 WOODS HOLE, Mass.-- Move over, cyanobacteria! A large-scale study of the Earth's surface ocean indicates the...
Researchers Discover New Type of Stem Cell State
Credit: Courtesy Prof. John R. Bracht. It's not the amount of fat, but the ability to store fat in the right locations, that equates to...
Key cancer-fighting gene’s secret weapons revealed
Credit: The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute The findings revealed that a special group of genes that function within the body's normal DNA repair process...
A new therapy proves effective against brain metastasis
A study published in Nature Medicine by a team led by Manuel Valiente, head of the Brain Metastasis Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research...
USC scientists help identify genetic markers for prostate cancer in global DNA download
An international team of researchers including USC scientists has found scores of new genetic markers in DNA code that increase prostate cancer risk -- powerful...
DIY brings high throughput to continuous cell culturing
Credit: C. Bashor/Rice University HOUSTON -- (June 11, 2018) -- Rice University's Caleb Bashor never planned to be an inventor or do-it-yourselfer, but there was...
Pandoravirus: Giant viruses invent their own genes
Credit: IGS- CNRS/AMU Three new members have been isolated and added to the Pandoravirus family by researchers at the Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory (CNRS/Aix?Marseille...
