Commandeering microbes pave way for synthetic biology in military environments
Credit: US Army Graphic by Autumn Kulaga ADELPHI, Md. -- A team of scientists from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of...
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Yongxin Zhao receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Yongxin (Leon) Zhao, assistant professor of biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's...
NHGRI Scientific Director Dan Kastner named 2018 Federal Employee of the Year
Credit: Braun Film and Video, Inc Daniel Kastner, M.D., Ph.D., scientific director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), was named the Federal Employee...
Nearly 14 million additional adolescents need HPV vaccination to reach public health goal
ATLANTA -October 2, 2018,- Nearly 14 million additional adolescents (11-12 years of age) beyond those who will be vaccinated based on current rates will need...
Single atoms break carbon’s strongest bond
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory An international team of scientists including researchers at Yale University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have..
How the African elephant cracked its skin to cool off
Credit: Michel Milinkovitch An intricate network of minuscule crevices adorns the skin surface of the African bush elephant. By retaining water and mud, these micrometer-wide...
Cross-cutting issues in environmental quality and agriculture symposium
Farmers and agronomists must continue to focus on yield when creating their management plans, as the world's population keeps growing. However, environmental quality-especially water and...
Studded winter tires cost more lives than they save
Credit: Ilya Plekhanov Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have now shown that studded winter tyres cost more lives than they save. The new...
New technique uses umbilical cord stem cells for early repair of cleft palate
October 2, 2018 - A technique using umbilical cord blood stem cells could be a promising new approach for repair of cleft palate in infants,...
In tiny worms, researchers find spiking neurons — and clues about brain computation
Credit: Qiang Liu/The Rockefeller University Contrary to popular belief, the brain is not a computer. However brains do, in their own way, compute. They integrate...
Research brief: Primary care strategies to improve health of chronic disease patients
Improving primary care for patients with chronic illness is critical to improving healthcare quality, value and patient experience. Primary care providers are participating in several...
Mass. General Hospital to participate in clinical trial evaluating novel Ebola treatment
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) announced today that it will take part in an international multi-center trial evaluating ZMapp™, an experimental treatment consisting of three antibodies...
Dr. John DeLuca recognized for national contributions to the medical rehabilitation field
Credit: Kessler Foundation John DeLuca, PhD, Senior Vice President of Research and Training at Kessler Foundation, has been named 2018 Fellow of the American Congress...
Molecule studies reveal potential treatment for stroke patients
Credit: NatComm, doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-06133-0 CLEMSON, South Carolina - In an extension of research published a month ago in Nature Methods, a novel hybrid approach performed...
Temple Lung Center director reports ongoing positive results for emphysema treatment study
Credit: Temple University Health System (Philadelphia, PA) - Dr. Gerard Criner, MD, FACP, FACCP, Chair and Professor of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery at the Lewis...
