Freedom and flexibility: Thinking outside the cell for functional genomics
Over the past two decades, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley...
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Boosting natural defenses to fight antibiotic-resistant pneumonia
Credit: Adobe Stock/Wikimedia Commons Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat in bacterial pneumonia. While immune-stimulating treatments can help the body kill the bacteria, they can...
Insilico to present the advances in AI for biomarker development of human aging
Credit: Insilico Medicine Wednesday, April 4th, 2018, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based company specializing in the application of artificial intelligence for drug discovery,...
Satellites, supercomputers, and machine learning provide real-time crop type data
Credit: Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Corn and soybean fields look similar from space - at least they used to. But now,...
Microscopic revelations point to new blood infection therapies
Credit: Riley Brandt, University of Calgary Researchers at the University of Calgary's Cumming School of Medicine (CSM) have for the first time been able to...
Post-Ebola cataract surgery can safely restore vision
Credit: Steven Yeh, MD Cataract surgery can be safely performed on Ebola virus disease survivors with impaired vision, Emory Eye Center ophthalmologists and 40 colleagues...
Notre Dame researchers developing renewable energy approach for producing ammonia
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are developing a renewable energy approach for synthesizing ammonia, an essential component of fertilizers that support the world's...
Evan Snyder elected to Association of American Physicians
Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) La Jolla, Calif., April 4, 2018 - Evan Y. Snyder, M.D., Ph.D., professor and founding director, Center...
Healthy red blood cells owe their shape to muscle-like structures
Credit: Fowler Lab, The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, CA - April 4, 2018 - Red blood cells are on a wild ride. As they...
How did gonorrhea become a drug-resistant superbug?
Credit: Nicholas Lab, UNC School of Medicine CHAPEL HILL, NC - The bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is resistant to multiple standard...
Visually appealing solar modules as architectural elements in building facades
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Metropolia University of Applied Sciences together with the industrial partners are investigating opportunities to extend integration of visually...
Algae, impurities darken Greenland ice sheet and intensify melting
Credit: A. Hubbard/J.Ryan The Dark Zone of Greenland ice sheet is a large continuous region on the western flank of the ice sheet; it is...
Frankfurt University Library joins the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Frankfurt am Main, April 2018. The University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg (UB JCS) in Frankfurt am Main just joined the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) as...
Study: Climate change could impact critical food supplies for migratory birds
Ithaca, NY--Climate change could disrupt a critical fueling-up stage for migratory birds just as they're preparing to depart on their autumn journeys to Central America,...
How genes shape behavior
Credit: Andres Bendesky NEW YORK -- Some species of roundworms are just one millimeter long. Their brains have only 302 neurons, compared to our own...
