Biology

Credit: University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. – Agricultural producers deal firsthand with changing weather conditions, and extreme events such as drought or flooding can impact their productivity and profit. Climate change…

Michael Zuscik, Ph.D., says the research could lead to the first disease-modifying treatment for patients with osteoarthritis Credit: Michael Zuscik, PhD Osteoarthritis affects the joints, but according to researcher Michael Zuscik,…

A simplified new process transforms wood waste from agriculture and forest management into ethanol Credit: Berkeley Lab Reliance on petroleum fuels and raging wildfires: Two separate, large-scale challenges that could be addressed…

Technique could help find sources of heavy air pollution and allow researchers to better study its effects on human health and make more socially just policy decisions Credit: Tongshu Zheng, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. –…

Development of smartphone-based imaging systems for medicine and healthcare can be optimized by newly published guidelines for holistic assessment Credit: Hunt et al., doi 10.1117/1.JBO.26.4.040902 Smartphones get smarter every day.…

UC Riverside-led team developed simple, rapid method to assess contaminants in household fabrics Credit: University Communications, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A study led by scientists at the University of California,…

NICER collaboration, NASA astronaut reveal size of most massive neutron star, highlight Space Station science Credit: NASA / Walt Feimer A team of scientists used a telescope on the International Space Station to measure the size of…

Supporting innovation in sustainable, bio-derived products Credit: Image courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Southeast Regional Sun Grant Center at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture is pleased to announce…

UK researchers from the University of Bath and the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source have developed a method to directly measure the growth rate of ‘amyloid’ fibrils linked to Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other…

Credit: Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman and Brian P. Powell A pair of orbiting black holes millions of times the Sun’s mass perform a hypnotic pas de deux in a new NASA visualization. The…

Strategy focuses on reprogramming tissues surrounding the tumor to help the body’s immune system attack the cancer Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES (April 15, 2021) — Researchers have discovered a new way to transform…

Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Immune checkpoint inhibitors have transformed cancer care to the point where the popular Cox proportional-hazards model provides misleading estimates of the treatment effect, according…

Credit: U.S. Department of Energy, Ames Laboratory Scientists at the Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics (iCOUP), an Energy Frontier Research Center led by Ames Laboratory, have discovered a chemical process that…

Credit: Photo by NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher WASHINGTON – U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists were recently left scratching their heads over a familiar…

Credit: Egan Jimenez, Princeton University COVID-19 has been associated with increases in opioid overdose deaths, which may be in part because the pandemic limited access to buprenorphine, a treatment used for opioid dependency,…

Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. – A deep learning algorithm accurately predicts the risk of death from cardiovascular disease using information from low-dose CT exams performed for lung cancer…

Metformin inhibits disease progression in non-diabetic chronic kidney disease (ND-CKD) Credit: Professor Hirofumi Kai Researchers from Kumamoto University (Japan) have found that the anti-diabetic drug metformin significantly…

Findings suggest need to reconsider current disinfection, sanitation and hygiene practices Credit: NIH WASHINGTON (April 15, 2021) — Clusters of a virus known to cause stomach flu are resistant to detergent and ultraviolet…

Understanding the mechanism of pathogenesis of nasopharyngeal bacteria could lead to innovative treatment options Credit: Christian Fleury (INRS) Professor Frédéric Veyrier of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique…

Revealing where and why giant trevally roam as they grow helps us understand how to better protect them Credit: Photo © Ryan Daly Geneva, 15th April 2021 – When it was shown launching out of the sea to snatch birds from the…