Even perfectly clean hands can lead to MRSA transmission in NICU babies
Even if hospital workers practice perfect hand hygiene, MRSA can still spread among babies in the NICU, according to new research led by a Drexel...
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Is this the long-sought answer to the question of tropical biodiversity?
Credit: Steve Paton, STRI Visitors to the tropics are amazed by the huge variety of colorful, complex and sometimes ferocious creatures living near the equator....
Scientists find mechanism behind precise spinal cord development
Credit: Anna Kicheva Scientists have uncovered how nerve cells in the spinal cord are organised in precise patterns during embryo development - a finding that...
Exciting new material uses solar energy to remove man-made dye pollutants from water
Credit: Daniel Jones/Swansea University A novel composite material has been developed by scientists in the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University which shows...
Live-pig markets and traders could provide insight to controlling African swine fever
Credit: FAO Understanding how live pigs are traded between villages and backyard farmers can help health agencies better understand how devastating swine diseases spread, according...
Wildlife of northern Central African Republic in danger
Credit: B.Mandaba/Ecofaune+ The first aerial assessment of the impact of Central African Republic's recent conflict on wildlife and other natural resources in the northern part...
Study shows high pregnancy failure, nutritional stress in southern resident killer whales
Credit: Jane Cogan Study shows high pregnancy failure in southern resident killer whales; links to nutritional stress and low salmon abundance A multi-year survey of...
Researchers find link between food allergies and childhood anxiety
June 29, 2017 -- Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and Albert Einstein College of Medicine...
Mitochondria-targeted antioxidant SkQ1 helps to treat diabetic wounds
Members of the Faculty of Biology and A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, a unit of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, have tested on a...
UTA study recommends that children with autism be checked for DCD
(University of Texas at Arlington) UTA researchers are recommending in a new study that children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder should be checked for developmental...
Bringing CRISPR into focus
Credit: Maofu Liao/Harvard Medical School At a glance: New study generates near-atomic resolution images of key steps in how CRISPR searches for target DNA and...
Newly identified small RNA fragments defend the genome when it’s ‘naked’
Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Our genomes are minefields, studded with potentially damaging DNA sequences over which hundreds of thousands of sentries stand guard. These...
Penn collaboration produces surprising insights into the properties of butterfly wings
Credit: Daniel Janzen A collaboration between biologists and materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania is yielding new insights into the wings of the "skipper...
Bright thinking leads to breakthrough in nuclear threat detection science
Credit: (Photo by Randy Wong) LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Taking inspiration from an unusual source, a Sandia National Laboratories team has dramatically improved the science of...
More milkweeds located throughout the landscape can help conserve monarchs
Credit: Karen Oberhauser, University of Minnesota Image provided by Fred Ormand and Joyce Pearsall. Adding milkweeds and other native flowering plants into midwestern agricultural lands...
