Van Andel Research Institute scientists help redefine how cancer is categorized
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (April 5, 2018) -- Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) announced today that the work of its scientists is featured in 27 papers...
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Ten researchers to receive Germany’s most important award for early career researchers
This year ten researchers - five women and five men - will receive the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, the most important award for early career researchers...
New butterfly species discovered nearly 60 years after it was first collected
Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace In 1959, a then-teenage lepidopterist Thomas Emmel collected 13 fawn-colored butterflies in the highlands of Mexico. Nearly 60...
NCBS evolutionary biologists win American Society of Naturalists 2018 Presidential Award
Credit: NCBS The American Society of Naturalists (ASN) conferred its prestigious 2018 Presidential Award to evolutionary biologists from the National Centre for Biological Sciences of...
Pesticides give bees a hard time
Credit: Photo: Ricarda Scheiner In February 2018, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) confirmed that the pesticide group of neonicotinoids is harmful to bees. A...
Penguins go through the flow
Credit: Photo by © Céline Le Bohec (CNRS / IPEV / CSM) Colonies of breeding king penguins behave much like particles in liquids do, according...
Researchers identify the cells that trigger flowering
ITHACA, N.Y. - How do plants "know" it is time to flower? A new study uncovers exactly where a key protein forms before it triggers...
The humble fruit fly continues to boost biomedical discovery
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine For more than 100 years, the humble fruit fly has been used to understand fundamental biological processes and has been...
Study finds brain differences in athletes playing contact vs. noncontact sports
Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A study from researchers at Indiana University in the journal NeuroImage: Clinical has found differences in the brains of...
When kids’ autistic brains can’t calm down
CHICAGO --- One third of children who have autism spectrum disorder also have epilepsy. It's related to a major autism risk gene, which is mutated...
Insilico Taiwan calls Taiwanese AI talents with MolHack starting from April 23
Credit: Insilico Medicine April 5, Taipei, To attract Taiwanese talents for research and development in artificial intelligence (AI) and big data application, Insilico Medicine, one...
Class clowns: Playful boys viewed more negatively than playful girls, study finds
New research shows that playful boys are viewed as rebellious and disruptive by their 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade teachers whereas playful girls are not....
A vaccine for edible plants? A new plant protection method on the horizon
Credit: 123rf Novel technologies are being sought to replace the traditional pesticides used to protect plants, particularly edible plants such as cereals. A new collaborative...
Charting an underexplored landscape: The genitourinary microbiome
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON-(April 5, 2018)-More sensitive cultivation methods and precise 16S rRNA gene sequencing techniques have revealed that the human bladder host..
ASH partners with UNC, a ClinGen grantee, to curate genomic data for blood research
(WASHINGTON, April 5, 2018) -- The American Society of Hematology (ASH) today announced a partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC),...
