Protecting cell powerhouse paves way to better treatment of acute kidney injury
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Dec. 6, 2018) - For the first time, scientists have described ...
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Classifying brain microglia: Which are good and which are bad?
New study is perhaps the most comprehensive survey of brain microglia ever conductedCredit: Michael Goderre / Boston Children's Hospital Microglia ...
Postdoc in UC Riverside School of Medicine receives prestigious NIH fellowship
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Rebekah Charney, a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Medicine at the University of ...
UTeach Arlington receives grant from city nonprofit to benefit students, local youth
Arlington Tomorrow FoundationCredit: UT Arlington The UTeach Arlington secondary math and science teacher preparation program at The University of Texas ...
Distinguishing resistance from resilience to prolong antibiotic potency
Defining pathogen responses to first-line antibiotics could prolong their usefulnessCredit: Duke Photography DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers at Duke University ...
Nicola Allen receives $2.5 million Chan Zuckerberg Initiative early career award
Salk scientist joins network of global scientists to tackle Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's and ALSCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(December 5, 2018) ...
New butterfly named for pioneering 17th-century entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian
Credit: Florida Museum photo by Kristen Grace GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- More than two centuries before initiatives to increase the number ...
Study: Tuberculosis survives by using host system against itself
Credit: Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame In a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, scientists at the ...
Without Dna2, genes can jump into DNA breaks
Credit: Greg Ira, BCM Cells have in place a number of mechanisms to protect the integrity of the genome, including ...
229 new species described by the California Academy of Sciences in 2018
From fish to flowering plants and seahorses to snakes -- spanning five continents and three oceans -- these new discoveries ...
Breakthrough in blood vessel engineering
Gleghorn Lab first to grow functional network of blood vessels at centimeter scaleCredit: Photo by Evan Krape When someone has ...
30 years of experimental evolution results in a new sex chromosome
Credit: Manfred Schartl/Paolo Franchini On 3 December 2018, the laboratory of Professor Axel Meyer, University of Konstanz published new findings ...
Sugars and microbiome in mother's milk influence neonatal rotavirus infection
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Using a multidisciplinary approach, an international team of researchers from several institutions, including Baylor College ...
BU study: Modified malaria drug proven effective at inhibiting Ebola
Derivatives from a commonly used anti-malarial can prevent Ebola virus from entering cellsCredit: Photo by Cydney Scott, Boston University Photography. ...
Genetic mutation drives tumor regression in Tasmanian Devils
Credit: WSU Washington State University scientists have discovered genes and other genetic variations that appear to be involved in cancerous ...
Spinal cord injury could throw off body's internal clock, study shows
Credit: Image provided by Andrew Gaudet. AUSTIN, Texas -- Although paralysis is the most noticeable result of a spinal cord ...
Rotavirus outsources cellular protein CK1α to assemble virus factories
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Rotaviruses, like all viruses, reproduce inside living cells. Making new viruses requires assembling replication factories ...
A molecular look at nascent HDL formation
Biophysicists dissect the first step in reverse cholesterol transportCredit: Liu et al. JLR 2018 Oil and water don't mix. But ...
People and plants: Working together for the planet
Plants, People, Planet, a new cross-disciplinary Open Access journal, launches todayCredit: Plants, People, Planet / Tetsuo Wada / Aflo. We ...
Study solves puzzle of snail and slug feeding preferences
Credit: Mick Hanley/University of Plymouth Gardeners have puzzled for years as to why some seedlings are more commonly eaten by ...
