Credit: University of Pennsylvania Filtration membranes are, at their core, sponge-like materials that have micro- or nanoscopically small pores. Unwanted chemicals, bacteria and even viruses...
Plant-derived oils are widely used all over the world both for food and for industrial purposes. In recent years they have also attracted attention as...
The research group led by Miguel Soares at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC; Portugal) was specifically selected by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to...
Credit: David Kust/Entomological Society of America Annapolis, MD; September 11, 2017–A much greater number of monarch butterflies perished in a snowstorm in March 2016 in...
Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU A new study into pythons and boas has for the first time found the two groups of snakes evolved independently to...
Credit: Journal of the American College of Surgeons CHICAGO (Jan. 19, 2017): A new smartphone app called WoundCare is successfully enabling patients to remotely send...
Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Some scientists call it the "final frontier" of our DNA — even though it lies at the...
Credit: Kory Gozjack ATLANTA–Sex-changing fish exhibit differences in androgen receptor (AR) expression in muscles that are highly sensitive to androgens (male sex hormones) and essential...
Credit: Photo by Duke Photo. DURHAM, N.C. — The latest round of failed drug trials for Alzheimer's has researchers questioning the reigning approach to battling...
Credit: Portland State University (Portland, Ore.) — Portland State biologist Ken Stedman has received a $540,000 grant from NASA to study the evolution of viruses,...
Credit: Mia Kjaergaard, DBU The Danish concept Football Fitness has proved to be just as effective as tablets for countering high blood pressure. Furthermore, women...
Credit: LANL Prominent researchers Angel E. Garcia and Laura Smilowitz of Los Alamos National Laboratory have been named Fellows of the American Association for the...
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center A study involving the recently approved CD19-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy shows that 42 percent of patients...
Credit: Rice University A new study by Rice University researchers takes a step toward what they see as key to the advance of neuroscience: a...
IMAGE: Shelley Velleman, chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, lectures to students in her anatomy and physiology course about the different facial...
