Boron nitride foam soaks up carbon dioxide
Credit: Ajayan Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON – (Aug. 16, 2017) – Rice University materials scientists have created a light foam from two-dimensional sheets of hexagonal-boron...
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HawkWatch international partners with the University of Utah to study raptors in Africa
Credit: Evan Buechley HawkWatch International and the University of Utah are partnering on two studies in the Horn of Africa: a new effort studying raptor...
Epigenetics between the generations
Credit: MPI of Immunobiology a. Epigenetics/ F. Zenk We are more than the sum of our genes. Epigenetic mechanisms modulated by environmental cues such as...
Caribbean praying mantises have ancient African origin
Credit: Gavin Svenson, Ph.D. Three seemingly unrelated praying mantis groups inhabiting Cuba and the rest of the Greater Antilles actually share an ancient African ancestor...
Creative Use of Noise Brings Bio-Inspired Electronic Improvement
Credit: Megumi Akai-Kasaya WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 25, 2017 — In conventional electronics, a great deal of effort is devoted to eliminating stochastic resonance (SR) —...
What causes gene transfer to trigger T cell activation and exhaustion?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 27, 2017–Researchers are beginning to gain a clearer understanding of how the immune system responds,...
Choose Omega-3s from fish over flax for cancer prevention, study finds
Credit: University of Guelph Omega-3s from fish pack a stronger punch than flaxseed and other oils when it comes to cancer prevention, according to a...
Steroid hormones could hold further clues about age-related bone loss
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Sept. 15, 2017) – A group of steroid hormones could provide new insight into the bone...
Stem cell research provides hope for tasmanian devils with a deadly, transmissible cancer
Credit: Andrew S. Flies Morris Animal Foundation-funded researcher Dr. Deanne Whitworth, and her colleagues at the University of Queensland, have taken the first step toward...
Undergraduate student uncovers genes associated with aggressive form of brain cancer
Credit: Oncotarget, doi:10.18632/oncotarget.24228 CLEMSON, South Carolina – When Leland Dunwoodie, an undergraduate researcher in biochemistry, approached his PI about wanting to start research on "s..
What makes the bacteria behind lyme disease tick?
Credit: (UConn Office of the Vice President for Research Photo) Connecticut residents are all too familiar with Lyme disease, but the precise mechanisms of how...
Queen’s University Belfast researcher turning dirty tinfoil into…
Credit: Queen's University Belfast A researcher at Queen's University Belfast has discovered a way to convert dirty aluminium foil into a biofuel catalyst, which could...
Next generation solvent contributes to next generation biofuel…
Credit: Kanazawa University The first-generation biofuel, industrialized, ethanol, is produced from foodstuffs like maize, and thus poses great concern about a possible future shortage ..
A virus-bacteria coevolutionary ‘arms race’ solves diversity by ‘killing…
Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign There is remarkable biodiversity in all but the most extreme ecosystems on Earth. When many species are competing for...
Disease resistance successfully spread from modified to wild…
Credit: NIAID WHAT: Using genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes to reduce or prevent the spread of infectious diseases is a new but rapidly expanding field of...