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Credit: (Patrick McGuire / UC Davis) Sequencing the bread wheat genome has long been considered an almost insurmountable task, due ...

Personal cooling units on the horizon

Credit: Qing Wang, Penn State Firefighters entering burning buildings, athletes competing in the broiling sun and workers in foundries may ...

Four-year study finds group meditation reduces drug-related deaths in general population

Credit: Maharishi University of Management The rate of US drug-related fatalities fell 30.4% nationwide from 2007 to 2010 due to ...

How to model the immune system – 10 billion components at a time

The complexity of the human immune response has been difficult to characterize on a 'big picture' level, but researchers at ...

How far did you fall from the tree?

Credit: Kyoto University Japan — Mutations generate genetic variation, and are a major driving force of evolution. Therefore, examining mutation ...

Penn, Notre Dame researchers mapping genetic history of the Caribbean

In the island chain called the Lesser Antilles, stretching from the Virgin Islands south to Trinidad and Tobago, a team ...

Food scientists are developing a low-cost tool for detecting bacteria in food, water

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Food scientist Lili He and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that ...

ECDC rapid risk assessment outlines actions to reduce the spread of the mcr-1 gene

The recently recognised global distribution of the mcr-1 gene poses a substantial public health risk to the EU/EEA. The gene ...

Scientists surprised to discover lymphatic ‘scavenger’…

Credit: UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience The brain has its own inbuilt processes for mopping up damaging cellular waste — ...

TSRI-invented compound ozanimod shows positive results in late-stage clinical trial for relapsing multiple sclerosis

Credit: The Scripps Research Institute February 21, 2017 – Results from a new Phase 3 study conducted by the Celgene ...

Brain’s ‘GPS’ does a lot more than just navigate

Credit: Illustration by Julia Kuhl The part of the brain that creates mental maps of one's environment plays a much ...

New research shows where in the brain the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s occur

The image illustrates where in the brain the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s occur through accumulation of the beta-amyloid protein. Credit: ...

UCLA neuroscientists improve human memory by electrically stimulating brain

Neuroscientists at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have discovered precisely where and how to electrically stimulate the ...

Hospital for Special Surgery hand surgeon receives prestigious award…

Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery Scott Wolfe, MD, chief emeritus of the Hand and Upper Extremity Service at Hospital for ...

First stem cell study in the world for CF opens at UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital

Credit: University Hospitals CLEVELAND – A 39-year-old man with cystic fibrosis (CF) made history by becoming the first person in ...

Nutrition has benefits for brain network organization, new research finds

Credit: Graphic by Julie McMahon Nutrition has been linked to cognitive performance, but researchers have not pinpointed what underlies the ...

IU, Regenstrief study: Cognitive training effects differ by older adult’s education…

January 22, 2018

IMAGE: Regenstrief investigator Daniel O. Clark, Ph.D. is a Indiana University Center for Aging Research scientist. Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS ...

Healthy diet may reduce risk of ovarian cancer in African-American women

January 22, 2018

ATLANTA — A healthy diet may reduce the risk of ovarian cancer in African-American women, according to data presented at ...

Fatty liver diagnosis improved with magnetic resonance

January 21, 2018

Credit: Thor Balkhed/Linköping University Taking tissue samples from the liver to diagnose fatty liver can be replaced in most cases ...

Tufts microbiologist Cecilia A. Silva-Valenzuela, Ph.D., named Pew Latin American Fellow