‘Nowcasting’ beach water quality
Arriving at your favorite beach only to discover it's closed because of bacterial contamination can be a bummer. But even worse would be unknowingly swimming...
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Innate stress
A team of researchers from the Higher School of Economics and the RAS Vavilov Institute of General Genetics has been able to statistically monitor the...
‘Greener’ ways to color clothes
When buying a new outfit, most people don't consider the process that went into tinting that vivid red shirt or colorfully patterned dress. But dyeing...
Oxford University Press to publish two journals of the American Ornithological Society
The American Ornithological Society and Oxford University Press are pleased to announce their new partnership to publish The Auk: Ornithological Advances and The Condor: Ornithological...
Neurons can carry more than one signal at a time
Credit: Cruger Creations DURHAM, N.C. -- Back in the early days of telecommunications, engineers devised a clever way to send multiple telephone calls through a...
Research identifies new breast cancer therapeutic target
New Orleans, LA - Research led by Suresh Alahari, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has...
Timing of dinner may affect breast and prostate cancer risk
A new International Journal of Cancer study reveals that eating an early supper and having a long interval between the last meal and sleep are...
Effort to preserve lory population shows success
A long-term plan to preserve the Rimatara lorikeet by restoring an extirpated population of the species on a neighboring island that is free of predatory...
Potential for Antarctica to become plastics dumping ground and home for new species
Credit: University of Otago Antarctica is not as isolated from the rest of the world as scientists have thought, new research reveals, with potential for...
Feeding plants to this algae could fuel your car
Credit: LANL LOS ALAMOS, N.M., July 17, 2018-- Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and partner institutions provided today the first published report of algae...
Hormonal data in breath from whales interpreted for health indicators
BOSTON (July 2018) - As free-swimming North Atlantic right whales moved through the Atlantic Ocean, scientists with the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at...
Otago-led research cites faulty science and ethics in DNA analyzes of ‘Ata’
Credit: University of Otago. University of Otago-led international collaborative research calls into question the ethics and skeletal and genomic analysis surrounding research into the much...
Molecular culprits of protein aggregation in ALS and FTLD
The mutated and aggregated protein FUS is implicated in two neurodegenerative diseases: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). Using a newly developed...
Compound identified that protects against neurodegeneration
Researchers from the University of Liverpool have identified a new compound that protects against neurodegeneration in nematode worms. The discovery may enable novel treatments for...
Media registration now open for 30th EORTC-NCI-AACR symposium
Journalists can now register online for the 30th EORTC-NCI-AACR symposium on "Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics", which takes place in Dublin, Ireland, 13-16 November 2018....