Cancer cells’ transition can drive tumor growth, UF Health researchers find
Credit: Mindy C. Miller/UF Health GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- As cancerous tumors fester in the body, they need an ever-increasing blood supply to deliver the oxygen...
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National Family Forests Education Award goes to UT Extension’s David Mercker
Credit: Photo courtesy UTIA. A multi-partner program coordinated by UT Extension forestry specialist David Mercker has been awarded the 2016 Family Forests Education Award by...
UT Extension’s Shirley Hastings celebrated as legend
Credit: Photo courtesy UTIA. Shirley Hastings, director of UT Extension Strategic Planning and former associate dean of Family and Consumer Sciences, has been honored as...
Crop Science Society celebrates two UTIA turf specialists
Credit: Photo courtesy CSSA. Among the awards presented by the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) at its November 6-9 annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona,...
Study shows discrimination interacts with genetics and impacts health
It's no secret that discrimination is stressful for those who experience it, but turns out the issue is more than skin deep -- these stressors...
Stressed snakes strike first
Loading video... Credit: Tracy Langkilde, Penn State Whether a wild cottonmouth snake will attempt to strike in an encounter depends on its baseline stress level,...
Live cell imaging using a smartphone
Credit: Linda Koffmar A recent study from Uppsala University shows how smartphones can be used to make movies of living cells, without the need for...
Platform for rapid innovation
Cambridge, Mass. - December 21, 2016 - When Regina Dugan, Facebook's Vice President of Engineering and head of Building 8, spoke at Harvard University on...
New approach captures the energy of slow motion
Credit: Qing Wang, Penn State A new concept in energy harvesting could capture energy currently wasted due to its characteristic low frequency and use it...
Researchers confirm molecule’s role in kidney formation
Credit: Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame Research in the laboratory of Rebecca Wingert, the Gallagher Family Associate Professor of Adult Stem Cell Research in the...
Why big brains are rare
Credit: David Kilper/Washington University As a species we're so brain-proud it doesn't occur to most of us to ask whether a big brain has disadvantages...
New insight for developing more effective drugs to combat inflammatory bowel disease
Credit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestine that includes Crohn's disease and...
The last frontier
UC Santa Barbara neuroscientist Kenneth S. Kosik has been studying the brain for decades. His UC Santa Barbara neurobiology lab focuses on the evolution of...
NSF-funded startups demo tech at CES 2017 Eureka Park
More than 20 small businesses funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) will showcase their early stage technologies at the 2017 CES, a global conference...
Penn: Epigenetic change ties mitochondrial dysfunction to tumor progression
Credit: University of Pennsylvania Mitochondria, the mighty energy factories of the cell, often malfunction in cancer, as well as in other conditions such as aging,...
