Two antibiotics fight bacteria differently than thought
Credit: Alexander Mankin, UIC Two widely prescribed antibiotics -- chloramphenicol and linezolid -- may fight bacteria in a different way from what scientists and doctors...
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NSF supports completion of The Jefferson Project at Lake George Sensor Network
Credit: IBM Troy, N.Y. -- With support from the National Science Foundation, The Jefferson Project at Lake George is poised to complete the most powerful...
TSRI scientists develop new toolkit for exploring protein biology
Credit: Biomedical Graphics LA JOLLA, CA - November 1, 2016 - Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a broadly useful method to...
Database captures most extensive urban tree sizes, growth rates across United States
Credit: U.S. Forest Service Albany, Calif. - Sometimes in the cramped environs of U.S. cities every inch counts, especially if attempting to make space for...
New drug combination has potential to significantly improve chemotherapy success
Credit: UGA Athens, Ga. - University of Georgia researchers have found a way to enhance chemotherapy's cancer-killing powers, bringing science one step closer to a...
Researchers identify new drug target for gastrointestinal stromal tumors
Credit: UC San Diego Health Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Mayo Clinic provide the first evidence that the Hedgehog...
There’s money in your wearable fitness tracker
Your wearable fitness tracker is great at counting the number of steps you took today, but it could also provide a new source of currency...
Cosmic connection
We humans may be more aligned with the universe than we realize. According to research published in the journal Physical Review C, neutron stars and...
Study highlights diversity of arthropods found in US homes — From swabs of dust
Credit: Anne A. Madden, with the assistance from Robert Mcgugan at the University of Colorado, Boulder Nanomaterials Characterization Facility. False-coloring done by Robin Hacker-Cary. Researchers..
Bacteria can’t get a grip on self-healing, slippery surface
BOSTON - Implanted medical devices like catheters, surgical mesh and dialysis systems are ideal surfaces on which bacteria can colonize and form hard-to-kill sheets called...
Hospital readmission history a valid measure of skilled nursing quality
PROVIDENCE, R.I. --When an elderly loved one is discharged from a hospital to a skilled nursing facility (SNF), the family's hope is that they will...
Brown researchers developing new interactive sleep app
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- There are plenty of cellphone apps on the market designed to help people monitor their sleep patterns. The apps generally record data...
Study finds mild exercise helps decrease pain and improve activity level in older adults
Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery It's never too late to reap the benefits of exercise, and that includes older adults with arthritis and other muscle...
Stimulating the brain makes exercising the legs feel easier
Credit: University of Kent Research led by the University of Kent shows stimulation of the brain impacts on endurance exercise performance by decreasing perception of...
HybPiper: A bioinformatic pipeline for processing target-enrichment data
With the rapid rise of next-generation sequencing technologies, disparate fields from cancer research to evolutionary biology have seen a drastic shift in the way DNA...
