New study explains factors that influence the timing of infectious disease outbreaks
Credit: UGA The delay between the time when a disease outbreak becomes possible and when it actually happens depends chiefly on how frequently infection is...
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ZSL honors WCS’s Dr. John Robinson with its Lifetime Achievement Award
Credit: O. Landgrand London, November 1, 2016 -- The ZSL (Zoological Society of London) Awards Committee has presented the ZSL Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr....
State’s 3 largest public research institutions to increase collaboration
The state's three largest public research institutions have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, which expresses the intent of the parties to increase research collaborations on...
PET imaging visualizes hard-to-diagnose cardiac amyloidosis
Credit: W. Phillip Law/Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia Reston, Virginia - Researchers at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, have demonstrated that cardiac amyloidosi..
Hospital for Special Surgery survey defines need for health outreach programs
Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), which has an Outpatient Center in Stamford, plans to increase outreach and educational programs to...
Two antibiotics fight bacteria differently than thought
Credit: Alexander Mankin, UIC Two widely prescribed antibiotics -- chloramphenicol and linezolid -- may fight bacteria in a different way from what scientists and doctors...
NSF supports completion of The Jefferson Project at Lake George Sensor Network
Credit: IBM Troy, N.Y. -- With support from the National Science Foundation, The Jefferson Project at Lake George is poised to complete the most powerful...
TSRI scientists develop new toolkit for exploring protein biology
Credit: Biomedical Graphics LA JOLLA, CA - November 1, 2016 - Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a broadly useful method to...
Database captures most extensive urban tree sizes, growth rates across United States
Credit: U.S. Forest Service Albany, Calif. - Sometimes in the cramped environs of U.S. cities every inch counts, especially if attempting to make space for...
New drug combination has potential to significantly improve chemotherapy success
Credit: UGA Athens, Ga. - University of Georgia researchers have found a way to enhance chemotherapy's cancer-killing powers, bringing science one step closer to a...
Researchers identify new drug target for gastrointestinal stromal tumors
Credit: UC San Diego Health Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Mayo Clinic provide the first evidence that the Hedgehog...
There’s money in your wearable fitness tracker
Your wearable fitness tracker is great at counting the number of steps you took today, but it could also provide a new source of currency...
Cosmic connection
We humans may be more aligned with the universe than we realize. According to research published in the journal Physical Review C, neutron stars and...
Study highlights diversity of arthropods found in US homes — From swabs of dust
Credit: Anne A. Madden, with the assistance from Robert Mcgugan at the University of Colorado, Boulder Nanomaterials Characterization Facility. False-coloring done by Robin Hacker-Cary. Researchers..
Bacteria can’t get a grip on self-healing, slippery surface
BOSTON - Implanted medical devices like catheters, surgical mesh and dialysis systems are ideal surfaces on which bacteria can colonize and form hard-to-kill sheets called...
