UMN researchers find recipe for forest restoration
The good news: Recognizing the incredible value of forests in providing habitat, storing carbon dioxide, purifying water and more, people around the world are working...
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Production of key diabetes cells can be improved
Beta cells release insulin in your blood, but when you suffer from Type 1 diabetes, you hardly have any of them left in your body....
Changing of the guard — research sheds light on how plants breathe
New research is set to change the textbook understanding of how plants breathe. Previous explanations of how plants take up carbon dioxide and breathe out...
Researchers discover new cattle disease and prevent it from spreading
Within Danish cattle breeding the semen of one breeding bull is used to inseminate a lot of cows. Due to the many inseminations one bull...
Scientists and farmers work together to wipe out African lovegrass
Credit: QUT Marketing & Communication. A partnership between QUT, the NSW Government and farmers could lead to the eventual eradication of the highly invasive African...
Tiny Brazilian frogs are deaf to their own calls
Credit: Sandra Goutte Pumpkin toadlets, found on the leaf litter of Brazil's Atlantic forest, are among the smallest frogs in the world. An international team...
An extraordinary cave animal found in Eastern Turkmenistan
Credit: Aleksandr Degtyarev A remote cave in Eastern Turkmenistan was found to shelter a marvelous cave-adapted inhabitant that turned out to represent a species and...
Higher manganese levels in children correlate with lower IQ scores, UC study finds
CINCINNATI--A study led by environmental health researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine finds that children in East Liverpool, Ohio with higher...
Poliovirus therapy induces immune responses against cancer
Credit: Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. - An investigational therapy using modified poliovirus to attack cancer tumors appears to unleash the body's own capacity to fight...
Scientists restore tumor-fighting structure to mutated breast cancer proteins
Credit: David Hungate/VTC Research Institute Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have successfully determined the full architecture of the breast cancer susceptibility protei..
Bio-inspired approach to RNA delivery
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- By delivering strands of genetic material known as messenger RNA (mRNA) into cells, researchers can induce the cells to produce any protein...
Researchers identify millions of new genes in the human microbiome
A new study of the human microbiome -- the trillions of microbial organisms that live on and within our bodies -- has uncovered millions of...
3-D printed brain allows surgeons to practice
The first time a young surgeon threads a wire through a stroke victim's chest up through their neck and fishes a blood clot out of...
The right way to repair DNA
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA -- (Sept. 20, 2017) Is it better to do a task quickly and make mistakes, or to do it slowly...
Researchers hit the brakes on lethal brain cancers in mice
Credit: Image courtesy of Michelle Monje, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University. New research conducted in mice provides evidence that highly lethal brain tumors, called high-grade gliomas,...
