Untangling the secret of spider webs’ superpower
LOWELL, Mass. - In the "Spider-Man" movies, the superhero was able to stop a runaway train from crashing by using spider webs that he shot...
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Sequencing genomes of Nigerian women could help prevent many lethal breast cancers
Credit: The University of Chicago Medicine For the first time, DNA contributed by Sub-Saharan African women has been thoroughly evaluated with innovative genomics technology in...
Preparing for chemical attacks with improved computer models
Credit: Suddher BhimiReddy and Kiran Bhaganagar On April 4, 2017, the town of Khan Sheikhoun in northwest Syria experienced one of the worst chemical attacks...
A switch to turn fragrances on and off
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(August 21, 2018) Salk Institute and Purdue University scientists have discovered the switch in plants that turns off production of terpenoids--carbon-rich...
Researchers identify structural changes that occur in enveloped viruses before invading host
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--The critical, structural changes that enveloped viruses, such as HIV, Ebola and influenza, undergo before invading host cells have been revealed...
Orphaned elephants have a tougher social life
Credit: Jane Wynard/Save The Elephants Young female orphan elephants have a tougher social life than non-orphans, a new study suggests, adding to a growing body...
Engineers, urban designers boost efforts to protect fragile infrastructure
Researchers at New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), as part of a multinational consortium to enhance the sustainability of the food/energy/water (FEW) nexus in urban...
First in-depth profile of CAR T-cell signals suggests how to improve immunotherapy
SEATTLE -- Aug. 21, 2018 -- CAR T-cell therapy, which reprograms immune cells to fight cancer, has shown great promise in people with some blood...
Ecosystems are getting greener in the Arctic
Credit: Trevor Keenan and William Riley/Berkeley Lab In recent decades, scientists have noted a surge in Arctic plant growth as a symptom of climate change....
New type 1 diabetes therapy shows promise for long-term reversal in both humans, dogs
Credit: Purdue University/Erin Easterling WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- What if instead of daily insulin injections or wearing pumps, just getting a shot every few months...
Genetic model offers elegant tool for testing Parkinson’s disease therapies
For the past decade, Parkinson's disease researchers have relied on the experimental equivalent of using a sledgehammer to tune a guitar to test new therapies...
A new way to target high rates of obesity
A novel drug is being touted as a major step forward in the battle against Australia's escalating rates of obesity and associated metabolic diseases. As...
UGA New Materials Institute to test first fully biodegradable plastic straw
Credit: Dorothy Kozlowski/UGA A research team that includes partners from the University of Georgia New Materials Institute and the RWDC Environmental Stewardship Foundation will develop...
Plant protein complex plays large role in important growth and development process
Credit: Image courtesy of Marcela Rojas-Pierce. A little-studied plant cellular complex plays an essential role in a biological process - vacuole fusion - critical to...
Better genome editing
A major obstacle to in-cell genome editing is, well, the cell itself. "Human cells don't like to take in stuff," explained UC Santa Barbara's Norbert...
