Wayne State awarded $2.28 million from NIH to study buprenorphine
Credit: Wayne State University DETROIT – A team led by Wayne State University School of Medicine researcher Mark Greenwald, Ph.D., will use a four-year, $2,279,723...
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Heidi M. Sosik selected as a Fellow of The Oceanography Society
Credit: Heidi N. Sosik The Oceanography Society (TOS) congratulates Dr. Heidi M. Sosik (Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) on her selection as as a...
Facial recognition software helps diagnose rare genetic disease
Credit: Paul Kruszka, et al. Researchers with the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and their collaborators, have...
Gender roles in ancient times
Credit: Osaka University The rich mane of a lion, the colorful tail of a peacock, examples of sexual dimorphism are abundant. Osaka University Professor Hajime...
Life on the ice
Credit: James Chong For the first time scientists have directly observed living bacteria in polar ice and snow – an environment once considered sterile. The...
Shedding light on arctic zooplankton in the dark
Credit: Geir Johnsen, NTNU/UNIS Some of the smallest creatures on the planet — zooplankton — make the most widespread vertical migration of biomass on Earth....
Imaging mRNA right where it is made — at the site of translation
Credit: American Chemical Society Think of life as a house: if DNA molecules are blueprints, then messenger RNAs (mRNAs) are orders, describing the required parts...
Nanoparticles for 3-D printing in water open door to advanced biomedical materials
Credit: Adapted with permission from Pawar et al., Nano Lett. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01870. Copyright (2017) American Chemical Society. Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's C..
New gene delivery approach could allow long-term persistence in proliferating cells
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Sept. 22, 2017 — Researchers added a scaffold/matrix attachment region (S/MAR) to a conventional adeno-associated virus...
Suicide molecules kill any cancer cell
Northwestern scientist and lead study author Marcus Peter – Credits: Northwestern University Super assassin in every cell is poised to take out cancer cells Cancer...
In a nutshell: Walnuts activate brain region involved in appetite control
Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON – Packed with nutrients linked to better health, walnuts are also thought to discourage overeating by promoting feelings...
Fasting plasma glucose and insulin are determinants of dietary weight loss success
San Diego, CA and Copenhagen, Denmark, June 11, 2017 – Researchers from the University of Copenhagen, together with colleagues from the University of Colorado, Tufts...
Study shines new light on how Salmonella ‘die’ at low temperatures
Credit: Jennifer McCann / Penn State The most economical way to kill bacteria that cause common food-borne illnesses — mostly caused by Salmonella enterica —...
Breast milk linked to significant early brain growth in preemies
Feeding premature babies mostly breast milk during the first month of life appears to spur more robust brain growth, compared with babies given little or...
An evolutionary breakpoint in cell division
Credit: Osaka University Japanese researchers from Osaka University have discovered that the interaction between two proteins, M18BP1/KNL2 and CENP-A, is essential for cell division in...
