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December 2, 2016

Credit: Kevin Monko/Monell Center PHILADELPHIA (December 1, 2016) - The Monell Center announced today that it has received a $345,000 ...

First structural map of cystic fibrosis protein sheds light on how mutations cause disease

Credit: Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Biophysics at The Rockefeller University/Cell Rockefeller scientists have created the first three-dimensional map of ...

FSU professor designs new material to better store hydrogen fuel

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A Florida State University researcher has designed new materials that could be used to store hydrogen fuel ...

A&A special issue: GREGOR first results

Credit: Figure from Joshi et al. (2016, A&A, 596, A8) This special issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics contains a series ...

Perovskite solar cells hit new world efficiency record

Credit: Rob Largent/UNSW They're flexible, cheap to produce and simple to make - which is why perovskites are the hottest ...

Results from 3 ground-breaking studies show early benefit to patients

Munich, Germany: The "revolution in the understanding of cancer at the molecular level" has led to dramatic responses in cancer ...

Mount Sinai surgeons remove thyroid gland through hidden incision underneath the lip

Credit: Mount Sinai Health System A team of surgeons at Mount Sinai Beth Israel (MSBI), led by William B. Inabnet ...

New strategy may drop cancer’s guard

Credit: Carson Lab/Rice University HOUSTON - (Nov. 30, 2016) - A drug used now to treat Type 2 diabetes may ...

Virus-inspired delivery system transfers microscopic cargo between human cells

Loading video... Credit: David Belnap, Joerg Votteler Scientists from the University of Utah and University of Washington have developed blueprints ...

Corneal collagen cross-linking for keratoconus: Now data provide hint of benefit

In patients with keratoconus the cornea of the eye begins to bulge. So-called corneal collagen cross-linking aims to halt this ...

TGen, City of Hope combine to advance precision medicine and speed translational research

DUARTE, Calif., and PHOENIX, Nov. 30, 2016 - City of Hope, a world-renowned independent research and cancer and diabetes treatment ...

Mystery of biological plastic synthesis machinery unveiled

Daejeon, Republic of Korea, Nov. 30, 2016 -- Plastics and other polymers are used every day. These polymers are mostly ...

KAUST Prof. Carlos Duarte named as ASLO Fellow

Credit: KAUST 2016 The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography recently elected Carlos Duarte, Director of the Red ...

Going against the grain — nitrogen turns out to be hypersociable!

Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski Going against the grain - nitrogen turns out to be hypersociable! Nitrogen is everywhere: even ...

Genomics technique could accelerate detection of foodborne bacterial outbreaks

Credit: Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention A new testing methodology based on metagenomics could accelerate the diagnosis of ...

Publishing platform ARPHA partners with Altmetric to track online attention to research

Credit: ZooKeys With a research output mentioned online every 1.8 seconds, it only makes sense for the science community to ...

Prominent geophysicist Marcia McNutt named 30th DRI Nevada Medalist

RENO, Nev. (Nov. 30, 2016) - The Desert Research Institute (DRI) proudly announces the selection of Dr. Marcia McNutt, president ...

Throwing new light on printed organic solar cells

Research from the University of Surrey reveals scientists are able to improve the efficiency of solar cells more than threefold ...

Discovery by NUS researchers suggests new possibility in treating aggressive ovarian cancer

A recent discovery by researchers from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore ...

Deep insights from surface reactions