Breakthrough in brown fat research: Researchers from Denmark and Germany have found brown fat’s “off-switch”
Brown fat, also known as brown adipose tissue (BAT), is a type of fat in our bodies that's different from the white fat around our...
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After 25 years, researchers uncover genetic cause of rare neurological disease
**EMBARGOED BY NATURE GENETICS UNTIL 10AM BST/ 5AM ET/ 3AM MT, APRIL 29**Credit: Mandi Gandelman, Ph.D. **EMBARGOED BY NATURE GENETICS UNTIL 10AM BST/ 5AM ET/...
Atomic nucleus excited with laser: a breakthrough after decades
Physicists have been hoping for this moment for a long time: for many years, scientists all around the world have been searching for a very...
Lower dose of mpox vaccine is safe and generates six-week antibody response equivalent to standard regimen
WHAT: A dose-sparing intradermal mpox vaccination regimen was safe and generated an antibody response equivalent to that induced by the standard regimen at six weeks...
Florida International University graduate student selected for inaugural IDEA2 public policy fellowship
The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) and the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) are pleased to announce that Kristine Zikmanis has been selected for...
Getting dynamic information from static snapshots
Imagine predicting the exact finishing order of the Kentucky Derby from a still photograph taken 10 seconds into the race.Credit: Photo by Lorenzo Orecchia Imagine...
Illuminating Darwin’s ‘abominable mystery’— Vast DNA tree of life for plants revealed
The flowering plant tree of life, much like our own family tree, allows us to understand how different species are related to each other. The...
Major funding allocated to develop a method for tracking tuberculosis through saliva
Tuberculosis is the infectious disease caused by a single bacterium that claims the most lives worldwide. Approximately 10 million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis each...
How the immune system learns from harmless particles
Our lungs are bombarded by all manner of different particles every single day. Whilst some are perfectly safe for us, others—known as pathogens—have the potential...
Isabelle Anguelovski, selected by the U.S. government for the First National Nature Assessment
Isabelle Anguelovski, researcher at the Instituteof Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), in Span, is one of the authors selected...
MSK Research Highlights, April 26, 2024
New research from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) provides two examples of computational tools developed at MSK that leverage data about cells’ locations to...
Longer-lasting and more sustainable green hydrogen production
Researchers led by Ryuhei Nakamura at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan have improved on their green and sustainable method of...
Breast cancer rates rising among Canadian women in their 20s, 30s and 40s
Rates of breast cancer in women under the age of 50 are rising in Canada according to a study which showed an increase in breast...
UNC Charlotte bioinformatics professor discovers surprising evolutionary pattern in landmark yeast study
University of North Carolina at Charlotte Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics Abigail Leavitt LaBella has co-led an ambitious research study — published this week in the widely...
DOE Under Secretary for Science and Innovation visits Jefferson Lab
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – On April 18, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility welcomed Under Secretary for Science and Innovation Geraldine...
