Elizabeth Blackburn, Salk Institute’s first female president, honored by TIME
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA–Salk Institute President Elizabeth Blackburn–the Institute's first female president and one of only 12 women to have won a Nobel Prize...
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Efficiency of insect biodiversity monitoring via Malaise trap samples…
Credit: Bernhard Huber The massive decline of over 75% insect biomass reported from Germany between 1989 and 2013 by expert citizen scientists proves the urgent...
Key molecular signal that shapes regeneration in planarian stem cells discovered
Kansas City, MO. — Many living creatures possess exceptional abilities that set them apart from other species. Cheetahs can run up to 60 miles per...
New study explains factors that influence the timing of infectious…
Credit: UGA The delay between the time when a disease outbreak becomes possible and when it actually happens depends chiefly on how frequently infection is...
Cardiac imaging detects serious residual septal defects during child open heart surgery
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Using cardiac imaging during heart surgery can detect serious residual holes in the heart that may occur when surgeons repair...
Biological clock found in fungal parasite sheds more light on…
Credit: Brianna Santamaria Charissa de Bekker, Ph.D., came to UCF earlier this year to continue her research on a fungal parasite that infects ants, hijacks...
What if humans could photosynthesize? (video)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2016 — The sun shines a massive amount of energy onto the Earth's surface every day. What if humans could take a...
Blood processing methods affect microparticles and mtDNA linked to transfusion reactions
Scientists from Blood Systems Research Institute in San Francisco, California, and Canadian Blood Services' Centre for Innovation lab in Edmonton, Alberta, report for the first...
New approach tests the strength of immunity
Credit: Thomas Jefferson University (PHILADELPHIA) — The immune system orchestrates large and small scale attacks on innumerous targets: viruses, bacteria, cancer, but it also misfires...
Adrian Raftery receives Ireland’s St. Patrick’s Day Medal for contributions to…
Credit: Nick Crettier On March 15 at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., Prime Minister Enda Kenny of Ireland honored Adrian Raftery, a professor of statistics...
WSU researchers see gene influencing performance of sleep-deprived people
Credit: WSU Washington State University researchers have discovered a genetic variation that predicts how well people perform certain mental tasks when they are sleep deprived....
Evolution of ideas: Scientists to decode genetic story of Newton’s apple
Credit: University of Lincoln Scientists will connect two of the most important scientific theories of all time – the law of universal gravitation and the...
Scripps Florida scientists find way to predict activity of stem cells
JUPITER, FL – February 29, 2016 – Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have for the first time developed a...
Pathways leading to beta cell division identified, may aid diabetes…
Credit: UC San Diego Health Pancreatic beta cells help maintain normal blood glucose levels by producing the hormone insulin — the master regulator of energy...
USF Biologists find frog’s future health influenced by gut…
Credit: University of South Florida TAMPA, Fla. (July 20, 2017) – University of South Florida biologists have found that a crucial window in the development...