Praise for polymer science
Credit: Courtesy Photo UC Santa Barbara engineer Glenn Fredrickson has received the 2016 William H. Walker Award for Excellence in Contributions to Chemical Engineering Literature...
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Happy salmon swim bette
(Umea University) What makes young salmon decide to leave their rivers and head out to Sea has been a hot topic for decades now. Current...
Ice age vertebrates had mixed responses to climate change
Credit: Edward Myers New research examines how vertebrate species in the eastern United States ranging from snakes to mammals to birds responded to climate change...
Put people at the center of conservation, new study advises
Credit: Nathan Bennett People must be part of the equation in conservation projects. This will increase local support and the effectiveness of conservation. That's the...
Scientists improve predictions of how temperature affects the survival of fish embryos
Credit: Douglas Killam, Calif. Department of Fish and Wildlife. Scientists closely tracking the survival of endangered Sacramento River salmon faced a puzzle: the same high...
Tenaya Therapeutics launches with the goal of curing heart disease
A new biopharmaceutical company, Tenaya Therapeutics Inc., will build on discoveries in cardiovascular disease research made at the Gladstone Institutes, concentrating on regenerative medicine and...
Nomads no more, leatherback turtles find permanent coastal home
Credit: Nathan Robinson, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - Endangered leatherback sea turtles are known for their open-ocean migratory nature and nomadic foraging habits - traveling...
Controlling gene activity in human development
Researchers at the Babraham Institute have revealed a new understanding of the molecular switches that control gene activity in human embryonic stem cells. This insight...
Mount Sinai establishes 3-D printing services for clinicians and researchers
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System Mount Sinai Health System today announced the creation of the Medical Modeling Core, a collaboration led by the Department of...
An amino acid controls plants’ breath
Credit: IBS Plants breathe and "sweat" through stomata, microscopic pores found on leaves, stems and other plant organs. Through the stomata, plants take up carbon...
What makes a neuron a neuron?
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - It remains unclear to scientists why almost every RNA-binding protein has a sibling - or "paralog." While such sibling proteins have the...
Side effects of leukemia drug can be safely reduced by halving dose
Patients with a chronic type of leukaemia could safely reduce the side effects of life-long treatment by cutting their dose in half, according to the...
How to turn white fat brown
Credit: The laboratory of Zoltan Arany, MD, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA-- A signaling pathway in fat cells may one day...
Unique strain of lactic acid bacteria in Buryat milk is found
Credit: Lidia Stoyanova Scientists from the Microbiology Department of the Faculty of Biology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University have discovered a new strain of...
Assassins on the rise: A new species and a new tribe of endemic South African robber flies
Credit: Torsten Dikow Discovery of a new species of assassin flies led to the redescription of its genus. This group of curious predatory flies live...
