Seeking new relationships with invasive species
With summer nearly here in North America, we often hear about invasive plants popping up in undesirable locations, "colonizing" different areas. But what if we...
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Genetic soil prospecting yields wealth of potential antibiotics
Credit: Zosia Rostomian image, Berkeley Lab. Soil, the source of our best antibiotics, can be more thoroughly mined for new drugs and other useful chemicals...
UGA and UConn Health researchers discover roles and teamwork of CRISPR-Cas proteins
Credit: UGA Recently published research from the University of Georgia and UConn Health provides new insight about the basic biological mechanisms of the RNA-based viral...
Muscle growth in the computer: international team wants to unravel the formation of myofibrils
Credit: Katharina Knaut How the bicep tenses is no longer a secret. In every muscle cell there are so-called myofibrils, which contract at the same...
Periodontal cell sheet technique promotes bone and ligament formation on dental implant
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 11, 2018--Researchers used periodontal ligament (PDL)-derived stem cells to create a cell sheet, attached it...
E- textiles control home appliances with the swipe of a finger (video)
Credit: American Chemical Society Electronic textiles could allow a person to control household appliances or computers from a distance simply by touching a wristband or...
Interest in tandem solar cells heats up
For decades, silicon solar cells have been used to convert energy from sunlight into electricity. However, recent improvements in perovskite alternatives are moving tandem devices...
Stem cell-derived organoids for testing gene delivery to retinal & photoreceptor cells
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 12, 2018--A new study that compared six of the most promising adeno-associated viral (AAV) gene...
For 100 million years, amber freezes a tableau of tick’s worst day ever
Credit: University of Kansas LAWRENCE -- One day in Myanmar during the Cretaceous period, a tick managed to ensnare itself in a spider web. Realizing...
Breathing better may be an added benefit of biodiversity
Credit: Geoffrey Donovan, U.S. Forest Service A Forest Service study of nearly 50,000 children in New Zealand has found that those who live in greener...
Tiny termite house: How termites destroy from the inside out
Credit: The National Pest Management Association FAIRFAX, VA. (June 13, 2018) - The National Pest Management Association revealed a high-definition, behind-the-walls look at the destructive...
Carlex Glass America licenses ORNL superhydrophobic coatings for automotive applications
Credit: Jason Richards/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 13, 2018--Carlex Glass America LLC has exclusively licensed optically clear, superhydrophobic...
Bristol scientists discover a new way to find mass extinctions
Credit: Mike Benton, University of Bristol During the history of the Earth, there were many mass extinctions, when huge numbers of species died out. They...
No link found between oral antifungal drug and stillbirth
New research from a Swedish and Norwegian team of researchers led from Karolinska Institutet does not support a suggested link between treatment with the oral...
Study reveals simple chemical process that may have led to the origin of life on Earth
Credit: Credit: Kuhan Chandru Research led by Kuhan Chandru and Jim Cleaves from the Earth-Life Science Institute at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, has shown...
