Monoclonal antibody cures marburg infection in monkeys
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Tom Geisbert, University of Texas Medical Branch WHAT: Scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health have found that an experimental...
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Random process analysis could give a woman more information about which infertility treatment is best
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 6, 2017) – It's been used to study automobile cruise control systems and population growth of certain animal species,...
Six teams seek to identify biological factors that influence neural…
The National Institutes of Health will fund six projects to identify biological factors that affect neural regeneration in the retina. The projects are part of...
Dartmouth, NSF aim to turn America’s rural libraries into STEM centers
HANOVER, N.H. – Dartmouth College will use a $3 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to further help small, rural libraries nationwide to...
Significant expansion of data available in the Genomic Data Commons
The recently launched Genomic Data Commons (GDC) will get a dramatic increase in the power and utility of its resources with the announcement today of...
IU, Regenstrief study: Early home health worker visit lowers risk of…
Credit: Eskenazi Health INDIANAPOLIS – A visit by a home health worker, such as a nurse or physical therapist, within a week of an older...
nTIDE Dec 2017: Yearend job numbers cap record year for americans with…
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ – January 5, 2018. Despite December's lag in U.S. job numbers, Americans with disabilities continued to show strong gains...
UTSA researcher to study waterways contaminated by Hurricane Harvey…
Credit: Deborah Silliman, UTSA College of Engineering Vikram Kapoor, an assistant professor in The University of Texas at San Antonio Department of Civil and Environmental...
The mysterious sexual life of the most primitive dragonfly
Credit: Adolfo Cordero-Rivera The dragonfly considered the most primitive in the world lives in Australia and Tasmania, and was believed to be extinct four decades...
Fiona Watt to receive the 2016 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award
Credit: Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine at King's College London Heidelberg, 26 February 2016 – EMBO and FEBS announce Fiona Watt, Director of...
In assessing risk of hormone therapy for menopause, dose — not…
Credit: UCLA Health FINDINGS When it comes to assessing the risk of estrogen therapy for menopause, how the therapy is delivered — taking a pill...
‘Shapeshifter’ that regulates blood clotting is visually…
A single molecule of von Willebrand factor is visually captured, as it elongates and relaxes in response to blood flow conditions, for the very first...
Tens of millions of trees in danger from California drought
IMAGE: This image shows progressive water stress on California's forests. Credit: Courtesy of Greg Asner. Washington, DC — California's forests are home to the planet's...
After legal-ivory experiment, black markets thrive from greater demand, less risk
To curb the destructive illegal ivory trade, the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) announced in 2008 that it would suspend its...
Culex mosquitoes do not transmit Zika virus, Kansas State University…
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS — A Biosecurity Research Institute study has found important results in the fight against Zika virus: Culex mosquitoes do...
