New ultrafast method for determining antibiotic resistance
Credit: Özden Baltekina, et al Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method for very rapidly determining whether infection-causing bacteria are resistant or susceptible...
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Penn State’s Institute for CyberScience faculty member wins $1.9 million NIH award
Edward O'Brien, assistant professor of chemistry, Penn State and an associate with the University's Institute for CyberScience (ICS), has received a grant for $1.9 million...
Amateur collectors in Japan discover country’s first and oldest fossil diving bird
Credit: Illustration by Masato Hattori HOKKAIDO, JAPAN (Aug. 8, 2017) - During a walk near a reservoir in a small Japanese town, amateur collectors made...
Magnetic fields turn up the heat on bacterial biofilms
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - August 8, 2017 - A short exposure to an alternating magnetic field might someday replace multiple surgeries and weeks of...
Are learning and unlearning bedfellows?
The human brain's capacity for learning is astonishing: it can even memorize meaningless sounds if repeated. Hence, a pattern of white noise, like that produced...
Four new fruit fly species from the Himalaya and information about their flower visitation
Credit: Dr Rajendra S Fartyal The first record of flower visitation in a group of fruit flies from Himalayan India and a total of four...
Playing with your brain
Human-computer interactions, such as playing video games, can have a negative impact on the brain, says a new Canadian study published in Molecular Psychiatry. For...
A taste cell encyclopedia
Credit: Monell Center PHILADELPHIA (August 8, 2017) -- A significant technological advance from the Monell Center now allows scientists to identify the complete set of...
NIH accelerates the use of genomics in clinical care
Credit: Ernesto Del Aguila, NHGRI The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is awarding $18.9 million towards research that aims to accelerate the use of genome...
Dino hips discovery unravels species riddle
Credit: Julius Csotonyi New research from University of Alberta paleontologists shows one of North America's most broadly identified dinosaur species, Troodon formosus, is no longer...
Relieving antibiotic resistance: Researchers take steps toward new treatment for E. coli
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan. -- By understanding the functional differences between proteins expressed by two E. coli strains, researchers at Kansas State University...
NSF funds new multidisciplinary approaches to study the brain
Credit: Homewood Photography The National Science Foundation (NSF) made 19 awards to cross-disciplinary teams from across the United States to conduct innovative research focused on...
One step closer in explaining MS relapse during upper respiratory infection
Credit: Lauren D. Quinn URBANA, Ill. - For most of us, the flu is just the flu. We suffer through it for several days, and...
Gulf Research Program announces 2017 Early-Career Research and Science Policy Fellowships
WASHINGTON - The Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today announced the recipients of its Early-Career Research Fellowships and...
New scanning process allows unprecedented look inside live insects
Credit: Danny Poinapen/Western University, London, Canada Until now, insects have been too wriggly to make good subjects for scientists wanting to understand more about insect...
