Petrol and jet fuel alternatives are produced by yeast cell factories
Credit: Zhiwei Zhu There have been many attempts to modify this stubborn little enzyme, but none have succeeded. Until now. With new findings from Chalmers...
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To buckle or not to buckle
Credit: OIST Magnetic balls provide exciting avenues for exploring many fundamental phenomena in physics. They can be assembled by hand into chains and more complex...
Staying a heartbeat ahead of hackers
Credit: UA College of Engineering Nearly a million new forms of malware are unleashed on the world every day. Manufacturers of software for smartphones, laptops...
Investment key in adapting to climate change in West Africa
Climate projections for West Africa show that crop yields and grass for livestock grazing are likely to decline in the future. But a new study...
RAND study examines 200 real-world ‘zero-day’ software vulnerabilities
Zero-day software vulnerabilities - security holes that developers haven't fixed or aren't aware of - can lurk undetected for years, leaving software users particularly susceptible...
New indicators to aid Crohn’s disease diagnosis and treatment
Credit: Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University The diagnosis, understanding and management of Crohn's disease may have just received a helping hand from a joint ASU...
USDA announces $1.35 million to support data-driven farm management practices
WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 6, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $1.35 million in...
Diet and global climate change
You are what you eat, as the saying goes, and while good dietary choices boost your own health, they also could improve the health care...
By boosting innate immunity, researchers eradicate aggressive prostate cancer in mice
Cabozantinib, a drug already used to treat patients with certain types of thyroid or kidney cancer, was able to eradicate invasive prostate cancers in mice...
Drug resistance of cancer cells crucially affected by expression levels of ABC-transporters
How is drug resistance of cancer cells affected by ABC-transporters? A new research paper, published in the open access journal BioDiscovery, looks at the complex...
How your neighborhood may impact your health
How physically active are you? It might depend, in part, on what type of neighborhood you live in, says Adriana Zuniga-Teran, a postdoctoral research associate...
Sub-second system seizures
Professor Neil Johnson, a physicist at the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences, is interested in complex networks. He studies how fast-moving packets...
History of exercise helps prevent heart disease after breast cancer
While regular exercise is recommended as part of a heart-healthy lifestyle for any person, it also appears to help mitigate the increased cardiovascular risk faced...
Novel compound that engages ‘second arm’ of immune system reduces breast tumors and metastases
Credit: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON - For all the success of a new generation of immunotherapies for cancer, they often leave an entire branch of...
Study: Hormone replacement therapy may help improve women’s heart health, overall survival
LOS ANGELES (EMBARGOED UNTIL 2 P.M. ET MARCH 8, 2017) - Hormone replacement therapy has long been controversial as studies have associated it with health...
