Rosenberg, NCI-supported researchers to receive 2018 Albany Prize
Credit: Rhoda Baer Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., of the Center for Cancer Research (CCR) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), has been named a...
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OU study shows effects of climate warming in tallgrass prairie ecosystem
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma professor, Jizhong Zhou, and his team have completed a new study on the effects of climate warming...
Models give synthetic biologists a head start
Credit: Illustration by David Zong/Rice University HOUSTON - (Aug. 14, 2018) - Synthetic biologists have the tools to build complex, computer-like DNA circuits that sense...
Natural refrigerant replacements could reduce energy costs and conserve the environment
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 14, 2018 -- The 1987 Montreal Protocol and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol called for countries around the world to phase out substances...
Light-engineered bacterial shapes could hold key to future labs-on-a-chip
Credit: Frangipane et al., 2018 Scientists have used light patterns to control the swimming speed of bacteria and direct them to form different shapes, according...
NSF awards grant to Portland State for state-of-the-art instrument
Portland State University investigators from the Departments of Chemistry and Biology have received a $350,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a state-of-the-art liquid...
Substances associated with bee ferocity are discovered
Credit: Iago Bueno da Silva / UNESP Brazilian researchers may have discovered why Africanized honeybees are so aggressive. The scientists detected higher levels of certain...
Scientists get new tool to track new pathogen killing frogs
Credit: University of Central Florida An undergraduate researcher has developed a method to screen frogs for an infectious disease that has been linked to mass...
Snake fungal disease alters skin microbiome in eastern Massasaugas
Credit: Photo by Michael Dreslik In the first study of its kind, researchers characterized the skin microbiome of a population of free-ranging snakes to begin...
Lipid droplets play crucial roles beyond fat storage
Credit: University of Rochester image / Zhihuan Li Lipid droplets: they were long thought of merely as the formless blobs of fat out of which...
Research brief: UMN researchers use green gold to rapidly detect and identify harmful bacteria
Researchers from the University of Minnesota (UMN) have developed a method to screen and identify harmful or antibiotic-resistant bacteria within one hour using a portable...
When mixing granular matter, order among disorder
Mixing liquids is easy, or at least scientifically understood: a drop of food coloring will eventually mix into a cup of water through diffusion, and...
Model way to protect trees
Oak processionary moth and ash dieback are among the most notorious tree pests and diseases intro-duced into the UK. And many exotic pests and diseases...
Rare cancer could be caught early using simple blood tests
Credit: Wikipedia Commons A pioneering study into myeloma, a rare cancer, could lead to GPs using simple blood tests to improve early diagnosis. The study...
Researchers predict risk for common deadly diseases from millions of genetic variants
Credit: Lauren Solomon A research team at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Harvard Medical School reports a new...
