Finding the needle in a genomic haystack
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Feb. 3, 2016 -- Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have identified a genomic mutation that causes physical abnormalities and...
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Dartmouth-led study finds mutual reinforcement of phenotypic diversity and cooperation
A new model exploring how evolutionary dynamics work in natural selection has found that phenotypic diversity, or an organism's observable traits, co-evolves with contingent cooperation...
Quantum RAM: Modelling the big questions with the very small
Credit: Griffith University Griffith's Professor Geoff Pryde, who led the project, says that such processes could be simulated using a "quantum hard drive", much smaller...
Search smarter not harder: Researchers present optimal strategy for foragers
An engineer constructing wells in oil fields and an animal foraging for scarce food in the desert often face a similar dilemma: How long should...
Hubble captures brilliant star death in ‘rotten egg’ nebula
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt The Calabash Nebula, pictured here -- which has the technical name OH 231.8+04.2 -- is a spectacular example...
$2.2 million from state will help speed UCI research to commercial market
Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI Irvine, Calif., Feb. 3, 2017 -- The University of California, Irvine has received $2.2 million from the state that will...
Atomic-scale view of bacterial proteins offers path to new tuberculosis drugs
Credit: Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics at the Rockefeller University/eLife With the first detailed analysis of a cellular component from a close relative of the pathogen...
Outstanding Investigator Award honors University of Chicago cancer researcher
University of Chicago cancer specialist Thomas Gajewski, MD, PhD, has been awarded an Outstanding Investigator Award by the National Cancer Institute, a branch of the...
Flipping the switch on ammonia production
Credit: Ross Milton Nearly a century ago, German chemist Fritz Haber won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a process to generate ammonia from hydrogen...
Russian researchers developed high-pressure natural gas operating turbine-generator
Credit: Press photo Scientists of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) developed turbo expander electric generator operating on high-pressure natural gas. Natural gas...
Faster way of detecting bacteria could save your life
Credit: G.L. Kohuth, Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. - A Michigan State University researcher has developed a faster way to detect the bacteria causing...
Salicylic acid promotes nasal mucosa colonization
Credit: Tom Grunert/Vetmeduni Vienna Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus ) can colonize the upper respiratory tract of around one quarter of the human population. As an...
Surprise finding leads to new insights into splenic B cell differentiation
Belgian scientists have discovered the key role of protein Taok3 in the development of type B immune cells known as MZB cells, which are responsible...
Germanium outperforms silicon in energy efficient transistors with n- und p- conduction
Credit: NaMLab gGmbH A team of scientists from the Nanoelectronic Materials Laboratory (NaMLab gGmbH) and the Cluster of Excellence Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed)...
Vilcek Prizes honor immigrants for outstanding contributions to biomedical science
New York, NY, February 3, 2017 -- The Vilcek Foundation is proud to announce that the 2017 Vilcek Prize for Biomedical Science will be will...
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