New study reveals when West Antarctica’s largest glacier started retreating
Credit: James Smith @ British Antarctic Survey Reporting this week (Wednesday Nov. 23) in the journal Nature an international team led by British Antarctic Survey...
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Uncovering the secrets of friction on graphene
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon in sheets just one atom in thick, has been the subject of widespread research, in large...
JNeurosci: Highlights From the Nov. 23 issue
Check out these newsworthy studies from the November 23, 2016, issue of JNeurosci. Media interested in obtaining the full text of the studies should contact...
Fat cell biologist awarded diabetes research prize
Credit: Charles LeDuc/Columbia University Medical Center NEW YORK, NY (November 23, 2016)--Columbia University has awarded the 2016 Naomi Berrie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Diabetes...
The eye has it: Vitreous gel could hold clues to visual impairment
Research is underway at Rochester Institute of Technology that will give scientists a better understanding of the vitreous humor, or gel, that fills the eye...
Cancer signaling pathway could illuminate new avenue to therapy
MADISON, Wis. -- Researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and Carbone Cancer Center have better defined a pro-growth signaling...
Writing an equation for soil success
Credit: Ole Wendroth. Soil isn't one size fits all. It may look the same under your feet - but under a microscope, that's a different...
NASA sees Tropical Storm Otto heading toward landfall in Central America
Credit: Credits: NASA/NOAA/MODIS Rapid Response Team Satellites are keeping track of late-season Tropical Storm Otto as it threatens Central America. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured...
Jet lag and obesity share similar pathways to liver cancer
Since 1980, the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of liver cancer, has nearly tripled, and obesity related liver disease is one of...
Harnessing the power of predatory bacteria as a ‘living antibiotic’
A naturally occurring predatory bacterium is able to work with the immune system to clear multi-drug resistant Shigella infections in zebrafish, according to a study...
Gut’s microbial community shown to influence host gene expression
Credit: Bryce Richter/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- In our guts, and in the guts of all animals, resides a robust ecosystem of microbes known as the...
Medicare beneficiaries face high out-of-pocket costs for cancer treatment
Beneficiaries of Medicare who develop cancer and don't have supplemental health insurance incur out-of-pocket expenditures for their treatments averaging one-quarter of their income with some...
Countdown to the space mission ‘Solar Orbiter’
Credit: Jürgen Haacks, CAU Around five years ago, a team led by a physicist from Kiel University, Professor Robert Wimmer-Schweingruber, won the coveted tender for...
Pioneers in IVC filter removal
Most filters -- whether for water or a furnace -- eventually need to be removed or replaced to avoid complications. Blood clot filters, which are...
VIB scientists discover neuron-producing stem cells in the membranes covering the brain
In a cross-domain study directed by professor Peter Carmeliet (VIB - KU Leuven), researchers discovered unexpected cells in the protective membranes that enclose the brain,...
