NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite sees formation of Tropical Storm Enawo
Credit: Credits: NOAA/NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team Tropical Storm Enawo formed in the Southern Indian Ocean, just northeast of the island nation of Madagascar...
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New autoimmune endocrine disease triggered by thymomas
Credit: Kobe University A Japanese research group has discovered that a newly-identified autoimmune endocrine disease that leads to hypopituitarism is caused by thymomas (a type...
$2.8M in federal grants to JAX scientists to target triple-negative breast cancers
Two grants from the U.S. Department of Defense totaling $2.8 million will support Jackson Laboratory (JAX) research in one of the most deadly forms of...
Doctoral student’s research looks at cause of neurodegenerative disease
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan. -- A Kansas State University student hopes her research on a currently untreatable and progressive neurodegenerative disease will one...
How to solve a problem like antibiotic resistance
There has been much recent talk about how to target the rising tide of antibiotic resistance across the world, one of the biggest threats to...
Frozen chemistry controls bacterial infections
Credit: Mattias Pettersson Chemists and molecular biologists have made an unexpected discovery in infection biology. The researchers can now show that two proteins that bind...
Precise technique tracks dopamine in the brain
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT researchers have devised a way to measure dopamine in the brain much more precisely than previously possible, which should allow scientists...
Painkillers without dangerous side effects
Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have discovered a new way of developing painkillers. The team of researchers used computational simulation to analyze interactions at...
Genome editing: Pressing the delete button on DNA
Credit: Pulido-Quetglas et al. CCBY Genomics is the field of research studying how our «genome», or entire DNA sequence, specifies a human being, and how...
HIGH-TOOL supports transport planning in Europe
Credit: Photo: KIT Research of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) supports the European Commission in transport planning: With the help of the new HIGH-TOOL model,...
Algorithm identified Trump as ‘not-married’
Scientists from Russia and Singapore created an algorithm that predicts user marital status with 86% precision using data from three social networks instead of one....
Nutrient Sensor Challenge winners announced at ASLO conference
Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science HONOLULU, HI (March 3, 2017)--The winners of the Nutrient Sensor Challenge were announced at a special awards...
Making metabolically active brown fat from white fat-derived stem cells
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 3, 2017--Researchers have demonstrated the potential to engineer brown adipose tissue, which has therapeutic promise...
Reprogrammed blood vessels promote cancer spread
Blood vessels play a critical role in the growth and spread of cancer. The cells lining the inner wall of blood vessels (endothelial cells) and...
Solar storms trigger surprising phenomena close to Earth
Credit: ESA Eruptions on the Sun's surface send clouds of electrically charged particles towards Earth, producing solar storms that--among other things--can trigger the beautiful Northern...
