Caribbean praying mantises have ancient African origin
Credit: Gavin Svenson, Ph.D. Three seemingly unrelated praying mantis groups inhabiting Cuba and the rest of the Greater Antilles actually share an ancient African ancestor...
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New study funded points to unexpected benefits of rabies vaccination in dogs
The rabies vaccine is extremely effective at preventing this fatal disease in dogs, but new research, funded by Morris Animal Foundation, shows the vaccine may...
Illinois researchers develop gene circuit design strategy to advance synthetic biology
Credit: University of Illinois Department of Bioengineering. Over the last 17 years, scientists and engineers have developed synthetic gene circuits that can program the functionality,...
Portland State study links cancerous toxins to cannabis extract
(Portland, Ore.) Sept. 25, 2017 - Researchers at Portland State University found benzene and other potentially cancer-causing chemicals in the vapor produced by butane hash...
Amount of water in stem cells can determine its fate as fat or bone
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers. BUFFALO, N.Y. - Adding or removing water from a stem cell can change the destiny of the cell, researchers have...
Scientists unlock mysteries of how Ebola uses people’s immune defenses to cause infection
GALVESTON, Texas - Scientists from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have gained new insight into how the Ebola virus uses the body's...
Notre Dame cancer researchers publish new papers on ovarian cancer tumor growth
Credit: Matt Cashore Two papers involving ovarian cancer research at the University of Notre Dame's Harper Cancer Research Institute (HCRI), one featuring new research and...
Warming climate could increase bacterial impacts on Chesapeake Bay shellfish, recreation
Researchers have found that three common species of Vibrio bacteria in Chesapeake Bay could increase with changing climate conditions by the end of this century,...
$1.4 million grant to fund LSU health research pipeline
New Orleans, LA - The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has awarded LSU Health New Orleans a $1.4 million grant over five years...
The drying of peatlands is reducing bird diversity
Credit: Aleksi Lehikoinen A recent international study indicates that the populations of peatland birds in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia and Latvia have decreased by a...
Caribbean spiders named for Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders David Bowie, and others
A new paper published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has identified and named 15 new species of spider in the Caribbean. Given...
‘Hypermutators’ drive pathogenic fungi to evolve more rapidly
Credit: Edmond Byrnes III, Joseph Heitman -- Duke; Valerie Knowlton - NC State DURHAM, N.C. -- Mutations tend to get a bad rap, and deservedly...
Chronic wasting disease
One of the most contagious of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, is chronic wasting disease (CWD) which affects deer and represents a risk to human health...
NSF grant supports biochemistry research and mentoring outreach
Credit: WFU / Ken Bennett The National Science Foundation recently awarded a $680,000 grant to Wake Forest University Associate Professor of Chemistry Patricia Dos Santos....
International prize recognizes Northwest ocean research program
Credit: Jennifer Fisher/Oregon State University Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies At least every few weeks since the early 1960s, scientists have set out from...
