Discovery helps improve accuracy of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing
Credit: Janet Iwasa graphic for Doudna Lab Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts General Hospital have identified a key region within the...
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New $5.4 million grant to JAX funds studies of ‘cognitive resilience’ to Alzheimer’s disease
A new five-year grant totaling $5,382,423 to Jackson Laboratory (JAX) Assistant Professor Catherine Kaczorowski will fund research to explore why some people with a family...
Wave Glider surfs across stormy Drake Passage in Antarctica
Credit: Avery Snyder/University of Washington The Southern Ocean is key to Earth's climate, but the same gusting winds, big waves and strong currents that are...
JDR special issue on orofacial clefting and dental and craniofacial anomalies
lexandria, Va., USA - The International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR) have published a special issue in the Journal of Dental Research (JDR)...
Fly away home? Ice age may have clipped bird migration
Credit: Craig Chandler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln The onset of the last ice age may have forced some bird species to abandon their northerly migrations for...
Shedding light on brain activity
A multidisciplinary team of researchers, including UC Santa Barbara scientists John Bowers, Michael Goard and Luke Theogarajan, has been awarded $9 million from the National...
Protected waters foster resurgence of West Coast rockfish
Credit: Advanced Survey Technologies, Fisheries Resources Division, NOAA Fisheries/Southwest Fisheries Science Center West Coast rockfish species in deep collapse only 20 years ago have multiplied...
MDI Biological Laboratory study finds immune system is critical to regeneration
Credit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE -- The answer to regenerative medicine's most compelling question -- why some organisms can regenerate major body parts...
Researchers stumped by plants with multiple chromosomes set January meeting to collaborate
Credit: (Texas A&M AgriLife Research photo by Kathleen Phillips) Some of the world's most beloved plants -- coffee, bananas, potatoes, chrysanthemums, and roses, to name...
3-D analysis of dog fossils sheds light on domestication debate
ITHACA, N.Y. - In an effort to settle the debate about the origin of dog domestication, a technique that uses 3-D scans of fossils is...
In search of a greener cleaner
PITTSBURGH (September 18, 2017) - Molecular chelating agents are used in many areas ranging from laundry detergents to paper pulp processing to precious metal refining....
Oxidative stress produces damage linked with increased risk of preterm birth
Credit: The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston GALVESTON, Texas - A group of scientists led by Ramkumar Menon at The University of Texas...
Immune cells may heal bleeding brain after strokes
Credit: Courtesy of Aronowski lab, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston. While immune cells called neutrophils are known to act as infantry in the...
UTA computer scientist earns grant to combine methods to better analyze brain image data
Credit: UT Arlington Like the organ itself, data collected about the brain is incredibly complex and requires sophisticated methods to sort and analyze. Current methods...
Communication key to preventing spread of drug-resistant bacteria
PORTLAND, Ore. - Communication breakdowns between care facilities can pave the way for outbreaks of infection, according to research on the spread of an extensively...
