Gut microbes contribute to recurrent ‘yo-yo’ obesity
Credit: Nature Following a successful diet, many people are dismayed to find their weight rebounding - an all-too-common phenomenon termed "recurrent" or "yo-yo" obesity. Worse...
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Geneticist Stephen J. Elledge wins Breakthrough Prize
Stephen J. Elledge, the Gregor Mendel Professor of Genetics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, has been named a 2017 recipient of...
Exploring how rice could survive salt stress
Credit: © 2016 KAUST Rice is a staple for more than half of the world's population, yet it is also the most salt-sensitive cereal crop....
The promise of greener power generation
Credit: © 2016 KAUST Modeling the combustion of fossil fuels by KAUST researchers has helped to characterize some of the components of methane, laying the...
A traditional Japanese art inspires a futuristic innovation: Brain ‘organoids’
Credit: UBC The ancient Japanese art of flower arranging was the inspiration for a groundbreaking technique to create tiny "artificial brains" that could be used...
Stereochemistry: Self-amplifying selectivity
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich chemist Oliver Trapp has designed and synthesized a catalyst which flexibly molds the handedness of the reaction products with which it...
Hubble spotlight on irregular galaxy IC 3583
Credit: Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA This delicate blue group of stars -- actually an irregular galaxy named IC 3583 -- sits some 30 million light-years...
AACR recognizes Fergus Couch and Max Wicha for contributions to breast cancer reseach
SAN ANTONIO -- The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) will honor two renowned researchers for their work in breast cancer at the 2016 San...
Mount Sinai Health System researchers present influential research at ASH 2016
(San Diego, CA - December 1, 2016) - Physicians and researchers from Mount Sinai Health System are presenting influential research and study updates at the...
Research uses mobile technology to help people quit smoking
What if a smartphone app could help you avoid relapsing back to smoking even before you knew you were at risk? A researcher from the...
New method improves stability, extends shelf life of protein drugs
Credit: University of Notre Dame Gaining access to important biopharmaceuticals needed to treat illnesses and autoimmune diseases is one of the biggest obstacles developing countries...
New tool uses UV light to control inflammation
Black light does more than make posters glow. Cornell researchers have developed a chemical tool to control inflammation that is activated by ultraviolet (UV) light....
Tunneling holds key to high-speed modulation of transistor and laser development
Credit: University of Illinois In 2004, electrical engineering pioneers Nick Holonyak, Jr. and Milton Feng at the University of Illinois invented the transistor laser--a three-port...
Fast, efficient sperm tails inspire nanobiotechnology
Credit: Cornell University Just like workers in a factory, enzymes can create a final product more efficiently if they are stuck together in one place...
Penn Medicine team to present findings of personalized cellular therapies at ASH Meeting
PHILADELPHIA - Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) will present the latest...
