Resistance to drug of last resort found in farm animals in US
Washington, DC - Dec. 5, 2016 - Carbapenems are one of the most important classes of antibiotics used in humans, and are an important agent...
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Fish fossils reveal how tails evolved, Penn professor finds
Credit: John Megahan Despite their obvious physical differences, elephants, lizards and trout all have something in common. They possess elongated, flexible structures at the rear...
Gene editing yields tomatoes that flower and ripen weeks earlier
Credit: Lippman lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Using a simple and powerful genetic method to tweak genes native to two popular varieties of...
A new dead zone in the Indian Ocean could impact future marine nutrient balance
Credit: SDU Large areas of the global ocean, so called marine "dead zones" contain no oxygen and support microbial processes that remove vast amounts of...
Age of world’s worshipers could shape global issues
NEW YORK (December 5, 2016)--The relative portion of older adherents to the world's religions will shift in the coming decades, according to a study by...
3-D solutions to energy savings in silicon power transistors
Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology In electronics, lower power consumption leads to operation cost savings, environmental benefits and the convenience advantages from longer running devices....
Safer, less vulnerable software is the goal of new NIST computer publication
Credit: Hanacek / NIST We can create software with 100 times fewer vulnerabilities than we do today, according to computer scientists at the National Institute...
$434,000 to environmental humanities
Credit: Stefan Holgersson The Seed Box, Sweden's largest research programme in the environmental humanities, is now allocating grants to researchers, writers and artists around the...
Availability of human food shortens and disrupts bears’ hibernation
Credit: Journal of Zoology With winter approaching, bears all over the world are getting ready to hibernate. New research suggests that not all bears will...
Protein synthesis: Ribosome recycling as a drug target
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich researchers have elucidated a mechanism that recycles bacterial ribosomes stalled on messenger RNAs that lack termination codons. The protein involved p..
Flowers use physics to attract pollinators
Credit: New Phytologist A new review indicates that flowers may be able to manipulate the laws of physics, by playing with light, using mechanical tricks,...
Researchers stress the need for research on Ebola virus disease in great apes
Credit: Mammal Review Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a threat to human health, but it also threatens the survival of African great apes. A new...
Kids’ restaurant menu items often include excess calories
Most kids' menu items offered by the nation's top 200 restaurant chains exceed the calorie counts recommended by nutrition experts, a new RAND Corporation study...
New compound targets TB bacterium’s defense against the immune system
Credit: Sello Lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Part of the reason tuberculosis-causing bacteria are so good at colonizing the human body is that...
How will electronic medical records and patient portals change patient care
Healthcare Transformation (), a breakthrough new peer-reviewed, open access journalzine spearheaded by Stephen Klasko, MD, MBA, President, Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) and CEO Jefferson Health...
