Atomic structure reveals how cells translate environmental signals
Credit: RIKEN Culminating a nearly 10 year effort, researchers have determined the atomic resolution structure of a key molecule that translates signals from a cell's...
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Dr. John Lahey, President of Quinnipiac Univ., awarded first-ever ACGT Edward Netter Award
Credit: Photo credit: Quinnipiac University Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy (ACGT), the nation's only nonprofit dedicated exclusively to cell and gene therapies for cancer, is...
Protein Science Best Paper awards annoucement
Credit: Brian Matthews, Editor of Protein Science Warmest congratulations to Charlotte Miton1 and Zach Schaefer2 (Figure 1), the recipients of the Protein Society's Year 2016...
NASA spots Tropical Cyclone 02W’s remnants in South China Sea
Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center The remnants of former Tropical Depression 02W still lingered in the South China Sea when NASA's Terra satellite...
Supermassive black holes found in 2 tiny galaxies
Credit: Gemini Observatory/AURA Three years ago, a University of Utah-led team discovered that an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy contained a supermassive black hole, then the smallest...
The Protein Society announces its 2017 award recipients
Credit: The Protein Society The Protein Society, the premiere international society dedicated to supporting protein research, announces the winners of the 2017 Protein Society Awards....
Dietary supplement may enhance dairy cattle health and reproductive capacity
URBANA, Ill. - Animal scientist Phil Cardoso knew that milk protein increases when dairy cows are fed the amino acid methionine, but he suspected that...
New many-toothed clingfish discovered with help of digital scans
Credit: Kevin Conway and Glenn Moore A set of curious researchers, state-of-the-art visual technology and a bit of good luck helped find a new fish...
New battery coating could improve smart phones and electric vehicles
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- High performing lithium-ion batteries are a key component of laptops, smart phones, and electric vehicles. Currently, the anodes,...
Early recognition
Credit: Courtesy Image Talk about an honor. For his outstanding work in the field of 2D electronics early in his career, UC Santa Barbara graduate...
NASA team explores using LISA Pathfinder as ‘comet crumb’ detector
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center LISA Pathfinder, a mission led by ESA (the European Space Agency) with contributions from NASA, has successfully demonstrated critical...
Guideline sets standard of care for treatment of oropharynx cancer with radiation therapy
ARLINGTON, Va., April 17, 2017 -- The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) today issued a new clinical guideline for the management of oropharyngeal cancer....
Do BAT receptors hold the key to treating obesity and diabetes?
According to research published online in The FASEB Journal, scientists have discovered a way to increase the amount of metabolism-boosting brown adipose tissue (BAT) ("good"...
Assay of nearly 5,000 mutations reveals roots of genetic splicing errors
It's not so hard anymore to find genetic variations in patients, said Brown University genomics expert William Fairbrother, but it remains difficult to understand whether...
High-resolution imaging with conventional microscopes
Credit: The Researchers CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT researchers have developed a way to make extremely high-resolution images of tissue samples, at a fraction of the...
