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Raw broccoli sprouts, a rich source of potential cancer-fighting compounds, have become a popular health food in recent years. But ...

Sandia Labs wins 5 regional technology transfer awards

Credit: Sandia National Laboratories/Randy Wong ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories won five awards from the 2017 Federal Laboratory Consortium ...

Protected waters foster resurgence of West Coast rockfish

Credit: Advanced Survey Technologies, Fisheries Resources Division, NOAA Fisheries/Southwest Fisheries Science Center West Coast rockfish species in deep collapse only ...

Fly away home? Ice age may have clipped bird migration

Credit: Craig Chandler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln The onset of the last ice age may have forced some bird species to ...

Naked molecules dancing in liquid become visible

Credit: (K. Hima Nagamanasa, Huan Wang, and Steve Granick. Liquid-Cell Electron Microscopy of Adsorbed Polymers. Advanced Materials (2017) Copyright Wiley-VCH ...

Tumor-infiltrating B lymphocytes promote melanoma progression & resistance to therapy

PHILADELPHIA -- (Sept. 19, 2017) -- In a multi-institutional collaborative study, scientists at The Wistar Institute and the Medical University ...

PharmaMar starts clinical studies with a new compound -PM14- in patients with solid tumors

After its preclinical phase, where the compound has demonstrated its activity in solid tumors in animal models, this Phase I ...

A dream of foam

Credit: Group Jan Vermant, ETH Zurich Oktoberfest in Munich is an exciting cultural event, but it is also a source ...

NSF issues new EPSCoR awards, investing in science and engineering across nation

Credit: Walter Dodds, Kansas State University. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded five jurisdictions nearly $20 million each through ...

Fluorescence microscopy on a chip — no lenses required

Credit: Takehara et al. WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 19, 2017 - Fluorescence microscopy gives researchers incredible power to illuminate the tiniest ...

PET imaging tracks Zika virus infection, disease progression in mouse model

Credit: Image courtesy of US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases For the first time, scientists have used Positron ...

Cultivating marine biomass

One of the most productive organisms on Earth, giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) depends on nutrients from the surrounding water column ...

‘Smart meters need a rapid rethink,’ say Bath researchers

The official UK smart meter network was switched on in November 2016 and since then smart meter devices have been ...

Scientists show molecular basis for ants acting as ‘bodyguards’ for plants

Credit: G. A. Miller TORONTO, ON - Though you might not think of ants as formidable bodyguards, some do an ...

An effective way to eliminate atrazine and its by-products in surface water

Atrazine, widely used as a weedkiller, is known to have harmful effects on aquatic wildlife and presents a risk to ...

Cleaning up subways: Sandia’s 20-year mission to stop anthrax in its tracks

Credit: Photo by Randy Montoya ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- If you're like most people, you don't spend much time thinking about ...

Rosetrees Trust Interdisciplinary Prize awarded to Hebrew University scientists

Credit: (Credit: Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The Rosetrees Trust Interdisciplinary Prize for 2017 has been awarded to two scientists from ...

NASA’s one-year mission investigates how space affects astronauts’ functional performance

September 14, 2017

Credit: NASA Adapting to the microgravity environment of space changes the way your brain interprets sensory signals, decreases muscle strength ...

Millions from the ERC for research into the possible harmful effects of acrylamide

September 14, 2017

Each year the ERC gives funding to researchers from all over Europe. The so-called ERC Starting Grants of EUR 1.5 ...

Prellis Biologics receives funding to create human organs with 3-D printing