See how immune cells break through blood vessel walls
Credit: Barzilai et al./Credit Required In any given second, thousands of immune cells are poking holes in your blood vessels as they travel out of...
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Biophysics plays key role in immune system signaling and response
Credit: Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech How big you are may be as important as what you look like, at least to immune system cells...
Immune responses against a virus-related skin cancer suggest ways to improve immunotherapy
Credit: Fred Hutch News Service SEATTLE - Researchers at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington say a new study suggests...
Why scientists should research emojis and emoticons :-P
Credit: Trends in Cognitive Sciences More than 90% of online populations now incorporate emojis and emoticons into their texts and emails, and researchers are wondering...
Scientists discover drug that increases ‘good’ fat mass and function
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--January 17, 2017--Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes identified an FDA-approved drug that can create the elusive and beneficial brown fat. Mice treated with...
Largest Populus SNP dataset holds promise for biofuels, materials, metabolites
Credit: Genevieve Martin/Oak Ridge National Laboratory/US Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Jan. 17, 2017--Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)...
NASA’s Aqua satellite sees Tropical Depression 01W ending near Southern Vietnam
Credit: Credit: NASA NASA's Aqua satellite provided a visible-light image of Tropical Depression 01W as it headed toward southern Vietnam for a brief landfall on...
First cell culture of live adult human neurons shows potential of brain cell types
Credit: The lab of James Eberwine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA - Studying brain disorders in people and developing drugs to treat...
GeoVax to collaborate with Georgia State on development of hepatitis B therapeutic vaccine
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--The Georgia State University Research Foundation has entered into a research collaboration agreement with GeoVax Labs, Inc., a Georgia-based biotechnology ..
Discovery could lead to jet engines that run hotter — and cleaner
COLUMBUS, Ohio--Researchers here have made a discovery in materials science that sounds like something from the old Saturday morning cartoon Super Friends: They've found a...
A tale of two pulsars’ tails: Plumes offer geometry lessons to astronomers
Credit: Nahks Tr'Ehnl Like cosmic lighthouses sweeping the universe with bursts of energy, pulsars have fascinated and baffled astronomers since they were first discovered 50...
Scientists develop new wheat-wheatgrass hybrid
Credit: WSU MOUNT VERNON, Wash. - With a hybrid crop called Salish Blue, scientists at Washington State University have combined wheat and wheatgrass in a...
Three questions climate science must answer
The signing of the Paris agreement in 2015 may give the impression that the major questions concerning climate change have at last been answered and...
New species of moth named in honor of Donald Trump ahead of his swearing-in as president
Credit: Dr. Vazrick Nazari Days before Donald J. Trump steps forward on the Inaugural platform in Washington to assume the role of the 45th President...
Wheat virus crosses over, harms native grasses
Credit: Photo by Layne Cameron EAST LANSING, Mich. - Once upon a time, it was thought that crop diseases affected only crops. New research shows,...
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