New link found between sex and viruses
Credit: Felix Rey, Pasteur Institute Sexual reproduction and viral infections actually have a lot in common. According to new research, both processes rely on a...
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Hitching a ride with a predator
Credit: Kate Broadley and Clayton Lamb EDMONTON (Under embargo until Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 10 a.m. MST)--In the middle of Alberta's boreal forest, a...
PERK protein opens line of communication between inside and outside of the cell
Credit: KU Leuven - Alex van Vliet PERK is known to detect protein folding errors in the cell. Researchers at the Laboratory of Cell Death...
Diving deep into the dolphin genome could benefit human health
Credit: NOAA In movies and TV shows, dolphins are often portrayed as heroes who save humans through remarkable feats of strength and tenacity. Now dolphins...
Vast luminous nebula poses a cosmic mystery
Credit: Cai et al., Astrophysical Journal (Figure 2) Astronomers have found an enormous, glowing blob of gas in the distant universe, with no obvious source...
Julia Hirschberg elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Credit: Jeffrey Schifman/Columbia Engineering Professor Julia Hirschberg has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest professional distinctions awarded to...
Brains of the operation — NASA team develops modular avionics systems for small missions
Credit: Credits: NASA/W. Hrybyk In just two years' time, a team of NASA engineers accomplished what some thought impossible: the group created a smaller, more...
UC researchers teach drones to land themselves on moving targets
Credit: UC Creative Services/Andrew Higley The buzzword in drone research is autonomous -- having the unmanned aerial vehicle do most or all of its own...
Direct-to-consumer genomics: Harmful or empowering?
Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS -- Thanks to recent scientific advances and plunging costs in genetic sequencing, consumers now can order simple, inexpensive, mail-in...
Three layers of graphene reveals a new kind of magnet
Credit: Biswajit Datta, Mandar Deshmukh Metals have a large density of electrons and to be able to see the wave nature of electrons one has...
AAV gene delivery vectors and cancer — The debate continues
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 23, 2017--Overwhelming evidence from the biomedical literature shows that adeno-associated virus 2 (AAV2), a viral...
Sugar’s ‘tipping point’ link to Alzheimer’s disease revealed
Credit: AP Commercial Photography For the first time a "tipping point" molecular link between the blood sugar glucose and Alzheimer's disease has been established by...
Official naming of surface features on Pluto and its satellites: First step approved
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute In 2015, in partnership with NASA's New Horizons mission and the SETI Institute, the International..
Researchers use laser-generated bubbles to create 3-D images in liquid
Credit: Kota Kumagai, Utsunomiya University WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a completely new type of display that creates 3D images by using a laser to...
Anti-aging gene identified as a promising therapeutic target for older melanoma patients
PHILADELPHIA -- (Feb. 23, 2017) -- Scientists at The Wistar Institute have shown that an anti-diabetic drug can inhibit the growth of melanoma in older...
