The coast is not so clear
For nearly a century, the O'Shaughnessy seawall has held back the sand and seas of San Francisco's Ocean Beach. At work even longer: the Galveston...
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Imaging technology reveals copper is key to meeting future food and energy needs
Credit: Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - For the first time, Cornell University researchers are using imaging capabilities at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS)...
New non-photosynthesizing plant species discovered on Ishigaki island, Japan
Credit: SUGIMOTO Takaomi A new species of non-photosynthesizing parasitic plant has been discovered on the subtropical island of Ishigaki in Okinawa, Japan and named Sciaphila...
Study finds 90 percent of American men overfat
Credit: Maffetone, Rivera-Dominguez and Laursen. Does your waist measure more than half your height? If so, you may be part of the global overfat pandemic....
Three new ‘club-tailed’ scorpions join the tree of life
Credit: © Humberto Yamaguti SAN FRANCISCO (July 24, 2017) -- A team of researchers -- including Dr. Lauren Esposito, Curator of Arachnology at the California...
Issues with maternal screening for congenital cytomegalovirus infection
Credit: Kobe University Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common virus found worldwide. When CMV infects fetuses, it can cause serious complications such as hearing difficulties...
The oldest ‘bad boy’ in the world
Credit: (© Evgeny V. Yan/FSU Jena) (Jena, Germany) He's Australian, around half a centimetre long, fairly nondescript, 300 million years old, and he's currently causing...
TPU scientists equip chemical sensors with ‘traps’ to detect toxic substances
Credit: Tomsk Polytechnic University Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University and the University of Chemistry and Technology (Prague, Czech Republic) have created novel chemical sensors for...
How can plant science solve the global challenges of the 21st century?
The New Phytologist Trust, in partnership with John Wiley & Sons, is announcing the launch of a new crossdisciplinary Open Access journal: Plants, People, Planet,...
Rahul Roychoudhuri awarded prestigious Lister Prize
Credit: Jonathan Lawson The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine has selected Babraham Institute group leader, Dr Rahul Roychoudhuri, to receive a Lister Institute Research Prize...
NCI-COG Pediatric MATCH trial to test targeted drugs in childhood cancers
Today investigators at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Children's Oncology Group (COG) announced the opening of enrollment for a unique precision medicine clinical...
Shaping up against pathogens
Credit: © Chris Smart, NYSAES, Geneva NY A missing link in the complex molecular pathway by which plants resist pathogens has been identified by an...
Campaigning on climate science consensus may backfire, warn scholars
Climate change campaigns that focus on correcting public beliefs about scientific consensus are likely to backfire and undermine policy efforts, according to an expert commentary...
Offer of $100 boosts rates of colon cancer screenings
PHILADELPHIA - Offering $100 to patients eligible for a preventive colonoscopy screening more than doubled the rate of screening when compared to a simple emailed...
COX-2 inhibitors may reverse IDO1-mediated immunosuppression in some cancers
Bottom Line: In preclinical studies, tumors that consitutively expressed the protein indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO1) responded to the cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitor celecoxib (Celebrex) and had..
