New international recognition for professor Federico Rosei
Professor Federico Rosei, who is also the director of the INRS Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Center, has been elected a member of the World Academy...
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Some hog workers developing drug-resistant skin infections
New Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health-led research suggests that some workers at industrial hog production facilities are not only carrying livestock-associated, antibiotic-resistant bac..
Large forest die-offs can have effects that ricochet to distant ecosystems
Credit: Abigail Swann/University of Washington Major forest die-offs due to drought, heat and beetle infestations or deforestation could have consequences far beyond the local landscape....
Acoustic buoy now detecting rare & endangered whales in New York Bight
Credit: CREDIT: A.H. Kopelman for CRESLI. New York (November 16, 2016) - An acoustic buoy recently deployed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and...
Study reveals impacts of climate warming and declining sea ice on Arctic whale migration
Credit: Vicki Beaver, NOAA Declines in the Arctic sea ice are arguably the most dramatic evidence of the effects of current climate warming on ocean...
Matchmaking for coffee?
Credit: Marcos José Perdoná Americans drink 400 million cups of coffee a day. Where does all of that coffee come from? Brazil is the world's...
Nanopolymer-modified protein array can pinpoint hard-to-find cancer biomarker
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University biochemist has developed a novel method for detecting certain types of proteins that serve as indicators for cancer...
Researchers receive Patent for Humanity award
Malaria has killed more people than any disease caused by a single organism, including small pox and the plague. Symptoms include high fever, copious sweating,...
New gene-editing technology partially restores vision in blind animals
Loading video... Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(November 16, 2016) Salk Institute researchers have discovered a holy grail of gene editing--the ability to, for the first...
Looking for a city’s DNA? Try its ATMs
Automated teller machine keypads in New York City hold microbes from human skin, household surfaces, or traces of food, a study by researchers at New...
LSU Health New Orleans reports innovations in defining sources of GI bleeding
New Orleans, LA - A team of physicians at LSU Health New Orleans has found that endoscopy combined with the administration of antiplatelet or anticoagulant...
New hydrogel can take organoids from dish to clinic
Credit: N. Gjorevski/EPFL EPFL scientists have developed a gel for growing miniaturized body organs that can be used in clinical diagnostics and drug development. Organoids...
Mutation that triggered multicellular life altered protein flexibility
Credit: Courtesy of Kenneth Prehoda EUGENE, Ore. -- Nov. 16, 2016 -- Just as a boat can be driven off course by a log in...
TSRI researchers show how circadian ‘clock’ may influence cancer pathway
Credit: Madeline McCurry-Schmidt LA JOLLA, CA - November 16, 2016 - A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) describes an...
GW researchers receive $2.2 million grant to study HERV expression in cancer
WASHINGTON (Nov. 16, 2016) - George Washington University (GW) researchers received a $2.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to uncover why certain cancer...
