New genetic clue to peanut allergy
Canadian researchers have pinpointed a new gene associated with peanut allergy, offering further evidence that genes play a role in the development of food allergies...
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Scientists describe ‘enigmatic’ species that lived in Utah some 500 million years ago
Credit: Julien Kimmig | KU News Service LAWRENCE -- To the untrained eye, it looks like a flower crudely etched into rock -- as if...
New materials may provide better ways to capture and store solar energy
Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - A research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), funded by two significant National Science Foundation (NSF) grants...
‘Ridiculously healthy’ elderly have the same gut microbiome as healthy 30 year-olds
Credit: Schulich Medicine & Dentistry, Western University In one of the largest microbiota studies conducted in humans, researchers at Western University, Lawson Health Research Institute...
Grazing horses on better pastures
Credit: Michelle DeBoer When you picture a horse, you may imagine it grazing contentedly in a grassy pasture. Grazing lets horses move around naturally outdoors...
Ketone nutritional supplements: Good or bad for athletic performance?
Credit: UBC Okanagan In the quest to improve physical performance, many athletes are turning to untested nutritional supplements. But in the case of one recently...
Intermountain healthcare researchers launch major three-year genomics breast cancer study
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Cancer researchers at Intermountain Medical Center and the Intermountain Precision Genomics Program in Salt Lake City are launching an exciting, new...
Predatory bacteria: The quest for a new class of antibiotics
Credit: OIST/American Chemical Society In 2016 the World Health Organization named antibiotic resistance as "one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and...
World’s ‘better’ countries have higher rates of cancer
The world's "better" countries, with greater access to healthcare, experience much higher rates of cancer incidence than the world's "worse off" countries, according to new...
Better managing plastic waste in a handful of rivers could stem plastics in the ocean
Massive amounts of plastic bits that are dangerous to aquatic life are washing into the oceans and into even the most pristine waters. But how...
A fashionable chemical and biological threat detector-on-a-ring
Credit: American Chemical Society Wearable sensors are revolutionizing the tech-world, capable of tracking processes in the body, such as heart rates. They're even becoming fashionable,...
Gel to fight rheumatoid arthritis
Credit: Park J. et al, Advanced Materials (2017) IBS scientists at the Center for Self-Assembly and Complexity, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), invented...
Researchers identify gene to help hybrid wheat breeding
Australian researchers at the University of Adelaide have identified a naturally occurring wheat gene that, when turned off, eliminates self-pollination but still allows cross-pollination -...
Scientists develop tool which can predict coastal erosion and recovery in extreme storms
The damage caused to beaches by extreme storms on exposed energetic coastlines and the rate at which they recover can now be accurately predicted thanks...
Danforth Center receives $3.4 million to improve maize architecture
Credit: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center ST. LOUIS, MO, October 11, 2017 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, one of the world's largest independent...
