New research to help reduce number of algae blooms that form annually
Credit: Nate Edwards/BYU Photo The massive algal blooms caused by excess fertilizer from farms and cities running off into water supplies are having severe human...
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Zika virus research at Biosecurity Research Institute aims to control, fight mosquitoes
Loading video… Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS — Kansas State University is helping the fight against Zika virus through mosquito research. The university's Biosecurity...
Immune receptor that’s typically activated by bacteria is a…
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Feb. 6, 2017) – Bladder dysfunction is a reality for about half of patients with diabetes and now scientists have...
Mini-protein rapid design method opens way to create a new class of…
https://scienmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/protein.mp4 Credit: Randy Carnell/UW Medicine Scientists have created a high-speed method to generate thousands of different, small, stable proteins fro..
Study calls for action to help adolescents with diabetes transition to adult care
Credit: McGill University Health Centre Montreal, Aug. 16, 2017 – Adolescence can be a turbulent period of life, with struggles to establish autonomy, identity issues...
‘The blob’ of abnormal conditions boosted Western US ozone…
Credit: Dan Jaffe/University of Washington Bothell An unusually warm patch of seawater off the West Coast in late 2014 and 2015, nicknamed "the blob," had...
Bacterial outer membrane vesicles: An emerging tool in vaccine…
Credit: Kendrick B. Turner and Scott A. Walper, Bentham Science Publishers Outer membrane vesicles, biological nanoparticles shed during normal growth by bacteria, have seen significant...
26 jaguars killed in Panama so far this year
Credit: Fundación Yaguará, Panama Ricardo Moreno, research associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama and director of the Yaguará Panamá Foundation, reported...
Study suggests gut bacteria can aid recovery from spinal cord injury
Credit: Kigerl et al., 2016 Researchers from The Ohio State University have discovered that spinal cord injury alters the type of bacteria living in the...
European Medium-Range Weather Forecast — model upgraded to best ever
Credit: ECMWF More accurate global weather predictions at record-breaking resolution Number of grid points tripled to 900 million, evenly distributed around the globe Gain in...
A horse is a horse, of course, of course — except when it isn’t
Credit: Illustration © Jorge Blanco An international team of researchers has discovered a previously unrecognized genus of extinct horses that roamed North America during the...
‘Nudges’ an inexpensive, effective way to increase…
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Keeping messages brief and simple can produce gains when trying to encourage patients to complete a...
Shape-shifting agent targets harmful bacteria in the stomach
Credit: Images courtesy of Jianjun Cheng, University of Illinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new shape-shifting polymer can target and kill Helicobacter pylori bacteria in the...
Reduced impact logging still harms biodiversity in tropical…
Credit: Felipe Franca More than 403 million hectares of tropical forests worldwide have been earmarked for timber concessions with selective logging a common economic activity....
A moving story of FHL2 and forces
Credit: Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore Researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have revealed the molecular events..
