NYIT faculty members to research RNA variants under multi-year NIH grant
Credit: P. Retuta for NYIT (New York, N.Y.) - NYIT (New York Institute of Technology) faculty members Shenglong Zhang, Ph.D., and Wenjia Li, Ph.D., have...
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Cultivating marine biomass
One of the most productive organisms on Earth, giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) depends on nutrients from the surrounding water column to maintain its photosynthetic apparatus...
Complex life evolved out of the chance coupling of small molecules
Credit: Wits University Complex life, as we know it, started completely by chance, with small strands of molecules linking up, which eventually would have given...
Genetic risk profile predicts survival for people with severe lung disease
New Haven, Conn. -- An international Yale-led research team has shown that a risk profile based on 52 genes accurately predicts survival for patients with...
Pulling, not pushing, silk could revolutionize how greener materials are manufactured
Credit: University of Sheffield. New insights into how animals spin silk could lead to new, greener ways of producing synthetic fibres, according to academics at...
PET imaging tracks Zika virus infection, disease progression in mouse model
Credit: Image courtesy of US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases For the first time, scientists have used Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging to...
Cell model of the brain provides new knowledge on developmental disease
By reprogramming skin cells into nerve cells, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden are creating cell models of the human brain. In a new study...
Sushi’s sublime secrets (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2017 -- Sushi is sublime. Just fresh fish and seasoned rice in its simplest form served one...
$20M NSF award to fund research into the role of microorganisms in plant, soil, water
Credit: Walter Dodds, Kansas State University LAWRENCE - The University of Kansas will partner with four other Kansas universities on a new project funded by...
Emerging disease further jeopardizes North American frogs
Credit: William Barichivich, USGS A deadly amphibian disease called severe Perkinsea infections, or SPI, is the cause of many large-scale frog die-offs in the United...
Scientists explore biology’s boundaries at Allen Discovery Center at Tufts first symposium
MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (Sept. 19, 2017) - Eight researchers in the vanguard of biological science gathered at the inaugural symposium of the new Allen Discovery Center...
What web browsers and proteins have in common
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Researchers in the United States and Germany have just discovered a previously overlooked part of protein molecules that could be key to...
Groundbreaking investigative effort identifies gonorrhea vaccine candidates
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers at Oregon State University have identified a pair of proteins that show promise as the basis for a gonorrhea vaccine. The...
What’s the latest on gut microbiota?
How many undergraduate classes in microbiology -- or any scientific field, for that matter -- can say they're published in a peer-reviewed journal? "It's very...
A study switches from genetic to metabolic analysis to reconstitute evolutionary process
Credit: Frederico Padilla With 72 species currently identified, Espeletia is a plant genus endemic to the paramo, a moist alpine biome unique to the northern...
