Classifying microbes differently leads to discovery
Changing the way microbes are classified can reveal similarities among mammals' gut microbiomes, according to a new study. The study, published in mBio, proposed an...
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Is the next big step in cancer therapy personalized vaccines?
Credit: UC San Diego Health Tamara Strauss has been living with high-grade, stage IV pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer for more than three years. Current treatments, although...
Cancer stem cells use normal genes in abnormal ways
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center CDK1 is a "normal" protein - its presence drives cells through the cycle of replication. And MHC Class I...
Innovative tool allows continental-scale water, energy, and land system modeling
A new large-scale hydroeconomic model, developed by the Water Program at IIASA, will allow researchers to study water systems across whole continents, looking at sustainability...
Liver-on-a-chip, the ideal test environment for CRISPR
Credit: Marco-Alexis Chaira Tempe, Ariz. - Two Arizona State University professors are among the first recipients of Somatic Cell Genome Editing (SCGE) grants from the...
Irrigating vegetables with wastewater in African cities may spread disease
Urban farmers growing vegetables to feed millions of people in Africa's ever-growing cities could unwittingly be helping to spread disease by irrigating crops with wastewater,...
NIH programs shed light on gene variants and their connections to health and disease
Programs supported by the National Institutes of Health are establishing which genes and genomic variants play a role in human disease, enabling their use in...
How the grid cell system of the brain maps mental spaces
It has long been known that so-called place cells in the human hippocampus are responsible for coding one's position in space. A related type of...
Does climate vary more from century to century when it is warmer?
Century-scale climate variability was enhanced when the Earth was warmer during the Last Interglacial period (129-116 thousand years ago) compared to the current interglacial (the...
Understanding the neurological code behind how flies fly
Credit: Alexandra Yarger, Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND--A common flesh fly takes off and maneuvers effortlessly, its head and body steadied by a hidden, miniscule...
He’s in a rush, she isn’t: Reproductive strategy drives slower female aging
Credit: Karin Söderlund Leifler/Linköping University The aging of males and females is influenced by how they choose to invest their available energy, according to a...
FutureNeuro partners with Ergo to develop eHealth technology for people with epilepsy
Thursday, 11 October 2018 - FutureNeuro, the SFI Research Centre for chronic and rare neurological conditions based at RCSI, has announced its partnership with Irish...
Long-term exposure to ozone has significant impacts on human health
A new study has utilized a novel method to estimate long-term ozone exposure and previously reported epidemiological results to quantify the health burden from long-term...
What makes tardigrades such great survivors (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Oct. 11, 2018 -- Tardigrades are tiny animals that can live in water droplets just about anywhere. When those...
Researchers discover what pneumococcus says to make you sick
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University researchers have identified a molecule that plays a key role in bacterial communication and infection. Their findings add...
