Fantastic news for the University of Konstanz: Two of its three cluster initiatives will receive funding through the German Excellence Strategy starting 1 January 2019....
Mathematicians at the Higher School of Economics have developed a model that explains how cell specialization arises in the context of resource constraints. The results...
Credit: Photo: Jürgen Gocke It is a major boost to cutting-edge research in Freiburg: in the current Excellence Strategy competition, scientists at the University of...
Credit: (Source: Sandor Nietzsche, Susanne Linde/EMZ Jena; photo edited by: Mario Kapitan) Jena (27 September 2018) The Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany) was granted funding...
PHILADELPHIA -- (Sept. 27, 2018) -- Scientists at The Wistar Institute have implemented a novel structurally designed synthetic DNA vaccine to simultaneously target multiple members...
From December 9 - 14, 2018, dozens of the world's top coral reef experts will convene in Florida in an urgent, coordinated effort to help...
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM All living beings need cells and energy to replicate. Without these fundamental building blocks, living organisms on Earth would not be able to...
Credit: Darya Shepeleva ITHACA, N.Y. - In 1959, Russian scientists began an experiment to breed a population of silver foxes, selecting and breeding foxes that...
Credit: ©UNIGE / Marc Heijde The induction of flowering is of major importance from an ecological and agronomic point of view. Timely and synchronous flowering...
Credit: Sam Nugen/Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - To rapidly detect the presence of E. coli in drinking water, Cornell University food scientists now can employ...
In obesity research, the body mass index (BMI) has been traditionally used to determine if an individual is normal weight, underweight, overweight or obese. However,...
Credit: Lara Bogart WASHINGTON, D.C., September 27, 2018 -- Iron oxide nanoparticles are used in sentinel node detection, iron replacement therapy and other biomedical applications....
The first study to document interactions between feral cats and a wild rat colony finds that contrary to popular opinion, cats are not good predators...
Credit: Matthias Forwick However, there was a small ice-free 'polynya' between the frozen continents and the open ocean where microscopic marine life prevailed, which would...
Credit: Bill Kelly, Kelly Design Company Hartford, Conn. - A new study of parents' fast-food restaurant purchases for their children finds that 74 percent of...
