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February 6, 2017

Credit: Bharat Medasani, Berkeley Lab / PNNL For the first time, researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) ...

Monell Center receives grant to characterize distinctive odor of ovarian cancer

February 6, 2017

Credit: Paola Nogueras/Monell Center PHILADELPHIA (Feb. 6, 2017) - Promising research to identify a characteristic odor that can be used ...

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 ...

USDA-NIFA awards $3 million for plant & animal phenomics research

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced ...

Scientists look to shine light on our dark genome

After the 2003 completion of the Human Genome Project - which sequenced all 3 billion "letters," or base pairs, in ...

Leading US and Korean researchers to apply artificial intelligence to aging research

Credit: Insilico Medicine Summary: Many recent advances in artificial intelligence and aging biomarkers that transpired since 2013 are converging Gachon ...

Full(erene) potential

In what could be called a classic "Eureka" moment, UC Santa Barbara materials researchers have discovered a simple yet effective ...

Precision-medicine approach could revive prostate cancer test

A new study led by researchers at UC San Francisco and Kaiser Permanente has identified genetic predictors of normal prostate-specific ...

The best treatment for laryngeal cancer? This approach helps decide

ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- Even as treatment options for laryngeal cancer seemed to improve, survival rates did not. For the ...

Defense mechanism employed by algae can effectively inhibit marine fouling

Credit: ill./©: Tremel research group, JGU Chemists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have developed a method that reliably hinders ...

Toward all-solid lithium batteries

CAMBRIDGE, Mass -- Most batteries are composed of two solid, electrochemically active layers called electrodes, separated by a polymer membrane ...

Quantum matter: Shaken, but not stirred

A team of researchers led by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich physics professor Immanuel Bloch has experimentally realized an exotic quantum ...

Artificially introduced atomic-level sensors enable measurements of the electric field within a working semiconductor device

Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology Semiconductors lie at the heart of many of the electronic devices that govern our daily ...

Thin, flexible, light-absorbent material for energy and stealth applications

Credit: UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Transparent window coatings that keep buildings and cars cool on sunny days. ...

Mayo Clinic tests vaccine to provide immune response against early breast lesion

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Only about 35 percent of precancerous breast lesions morph into cancer if untreated, but physicians cannot identify ...

Complex bacterium writes new evolutionary story

Credit: Image: courtesy Professor John Fuerst A University of Queensland-led international study has discovered a new type of bacterial structure ...

Researchers highlight alarming link between feral pigs and vampire bats

Credit: Alexine Keuroghlian The number of vampire bats, which transmit rabies and are a concern for livestock breeders, may be ...

Lower incidence of esophagitis in elderly NSCLC patients undergoing definitive radiation

DENVER - Elderly non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients undergoing definitive radiation have a lower incidence of esophagitis compared to ...

UCLA physicists map the atomic structure of an alloy

Credit: Courtesy of Colin Ophus and Florian Nickel In the world of the very tiny, perfection is rare: virtually all ...

Sandia receives ENERGISE award to study how to help utilities better manage power systems