Glass matters
Better known as glass, silica is a versatile material used in myriad industrial processes, from catalysis and filtration, to chromatography and nanofabrication. Yet despite its...
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Response of new cotton variety (rassafa) to nitrogen fertilizer
Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.), as the greatest source of natural fibre, is one of the most valuable crops grown worldwide. Like most major field crops,...
Plants faring worse than monkeys in increasingly patchy forests of Costa Rica
Credit: Laura Bolt TORONTO, ON (Canada) - Cattle ranching, agriculture and other human activities are breaking up Costa Rican forests into isolated patchy fragments, but...
Mutating Ebola’s key protein may stop replication
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Researchers may be able to stop the replication of Ebola virus by mutating its most important protein, according to a paper...
Extracellular vesicles could be personalized drug delivery vehicles
Credit: Xin Zou Creating enough nanovesicles to inexpensively serve as a drug delivery system may be as simple as putting the cells through a sieve,...
It’s mostly luck, not pluck, that determines lifetime reproductive success
ITHACA, N.Y. - A tree will drop hundreds of seedlings over the course of its lifetime, but only a small fraction will ever get to...
Babies fed soy-based formula have changes in reproductive system tissues
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Infants who consumed soy-based formula as newborns had differences in some reproductive-system cells and tissues, compared to those who used...
News from Molecular & Cellular Proteomics
How a losing a skin protein can lead to cancer Dystrophic epodermolysis bullosa, or DEB, is a rare, inherited skin fragility disorder characterized by severe...
Polymer nanoparticle shows ability to locate and treat breast tumors
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - March 12, 2018 - One major problem in treating cancer is identifying the location of small tumors and treating them before they...
National Academies review of the draft Fourth National Climate Assessment
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to review the draft Fourth National Climate...
Gerontologists tackle social isolation, increasingly a public health concern
Social connectivity and meaningful social engagement must be promoted as integral components of healthy aging, according to a new collection of articles in the latest...
SLU researchers discover structure of protein associated with inflammation, Parkinson’s
Credit: Saint Louis University / Ellen Hutti. ST. LOUIS -- In a recent paper published in Nature Communications, Saint Louis University scientists report that they...
A game changer: Metagenomic clustering powered by supercomputers
Credit: Georgios Pavlopoulos and Nikos Kyrpides, JGI/Berkeley Lab Did you know that the tools used for analyzing relationships between social network users or ranking web...
Stroke research: 32 hits
Researchers have analyzed genetic data from half a million subjects in a search to identify the underlying causes of stroke, a complex vascular disease. Scientists...
CRISPR helps find new genetic suspects behind ALS/FTD
Credit: Courtesy of Gitler Lab, Stanford University, CA. NIH-funded researchers at Stanford University used the gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 to rapidly identify genes in the...
