Squeezing life from DNA’s double helix
Credit: Xiaojiang Chen, USC For years, scientists have puzzled over what prompts the intertwined double-helix DNA to open its two strands and then start replication....
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CSU uses test for chronic wasting disease to study brain ailments in people
Credit: CSU Photography Wildlife disease experts at Colorado State University are investigating whether a test developed to detect early-stage chronic wasting disease in deer might...
Study first to show role of Parkin gene in eye lens free radical formation, cell survival
Credit: Florida Atlantic University Although mutations in the PARK2 gene that encodes the Parkin protein are associated with developing early-onset Parkinson's disease (PD), much remains...
Study offers approach to treating pain
Credit: Nereo Kalebic/EMBL For many patients with chronic pain, any light touch - even just their clothes touching their skin - can be agony. Scientists...
A skillful rescue robot with remote-control function
Credit: Hiroshi Yoshinada A group of Japanese researchers developed a prototype construction robot for disaster relief situations. This prototype has drastically improved operability and mobility...
Magnetic mirror could shed new light on gravitational waves and the early universe
Credit: Giampaolo Pisano, Cardiff University WASHINGTON -- Researchers have created a new magnetic mirror-based device that could one day help cosmologists discover new details about...
Revolutionary image-guided device targets brain regions associated with neuropsychiatric disorders
Credit: Soterix Medical Inc The EEG-Guided High-Definition tES (HD-tES) system is a breakthrough in allowing identification of brain regions associated with brain disease and then...
NASA communications network to double space station data rates
Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Amber Jacobson, producer Life aboard the International Space Station depends upon massive amounts of data, used for...
Sugar and sweeteners — how do they affect our appetite?
What should healthy young men who want to watch their weight and manage their blood sugar levels drink? Can they risk something sugary or will...
Supercomputer simulation reveals 2-D glass can go infinitely soft
Credit: Hayato Shiba Scientists in Japan have revealed that if a glassy solid possesses a planar (sheet-like) structure, it can exhibit enhanced thermal vibration motion...
Lehigh University’s Dr. Nelson Tansu elected Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
Credit: Lehigh University Professor Nelson Tansu of Lehigh University's P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science has been named a Fellow of the National...
Are we running out of vanilla? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2016 -- Vanilla is more than a standby ice cream flavor. It's used to flavor approximately 18,000...
NIFA announces $4 million in funding for biotechnology risk assessment research
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2016 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced the availability of up to...
The delights of dirt
Credit: Springer Soil can be beautiful, odiferous, slimy or sublime. It provides simple pleasures, such as its rich earthy scent after warm rain or the...
Forming a second line of plant defense — capturing disease-resistant DNA
Credit: Earlham Institute RenSeq (1) is the method to sequence Resistance (R) genes that confer disease resistance in plants. Each plant typically carries hundreds of...
