Protein insights to help find heart disease cure
Research led by The Australian National University (ANU) has uncovered new insights into how the human genome gets through the daily grind with the help...
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Scientists uncover re-evolution of disruptive camouflage in horned praying mantises
A scientist from The Cleveland Museum of Natural History led research that revised the horned praying mantis group and traced the evolution of its distinctive...
Tennessee’s Tyson Raper named 2018 Outstanding Young Cotton Physiologist
Credit: Ginger Rowsey, courtesy UTIA. JACKSON, Tenn. – Tyson Raper, assistant professor with the University of Tennessee Department of Plant Sciences and UT Extension cotton...
$8.9 million collaborative grant to understand how dangerous virus ‘hides’ to attack…
Credit: Jason Ryder The University of Arizona's Felicia Goodrum, PhD, and some of the nation's most prominent human cytomegalovirus researchers have been awarded a five-year,...
Grant enables study of mosquito virus as a genetic lab tool, malaria biocontrol
Credit: Jason Rasgon lab A virus that infects a species of malaria-transmitting mosquito could help scientists gain a better understanding of mosquito biology and eventually...
Berkeley Lab gets $4.6 million in functional genomics catalog project
Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab The Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is set to receive nearly $4.6 million over four years as...
Discovery of a unique subcellular structure determining the orientation of cell division
Cell division is a fundamental process of life, producing two cells from one single cell at each cell division. During animal development, a fertilized egg...
ECDC rapid risk assessment outlines actions to reduce the spread of the mcr-1 gene
The recently recognised global distribution of the mcr-1 gene poses a substantial public health risk to the EU/EEA. The gene is widespread in several continents...
Enzyme with surprising dual function
Credit: © Foto: Barbara Frommann/Uni Bonn Scientists at the University of Bonn have clarified a surprising dual function of ceramide synthase. The enzyme not only...
Scientists surprised to discover lymphatic ‘scavenger’…
Credit: UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience The brain has its own inbuilt processes for mopping up damaging cellular waste — and these processes may provide...
Over 10,000 Canadian women per year can stop taking blood thinners for unexplained clots
Credit: The Ottawa Hospital A Canadian-led research group has developed and validated a rule that could let half of women with unexplained vein blood clots...
Alcohol use affects levels of cholesterol regulator through…
In an analysis of the epigenomes of people and mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the National Institutes of Health report that drinking alcohol...
Routine hospital tool found to predict poor outcomes after liver transplantation
Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES (Aug. 10, 2017) — A routinely used hospital tool can predict which liver transplant recipients are more likely to do poorly...
Troubling inconsistency found in dialysis testing methods — with patient care implications
Credit: Josh Barney | University of Virginia Health System A blood test used to determine the health and well-being of dialysis patients produces worryingly inconsistent...
Coagulation Sciences selects Enercon as its contract manufacturer
Credit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE — Coagulation Sciences LLC, a medical device startup that is being incubated at the MDI Biological Laboratory in...
