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Agricultural & Forestry Science

New DNA Profiling Technique Beefs Up Cattle Genomics

A team led by Ikhide Imumorin, an assistant professor of animal genetics and genomics in the Department of Animal Science at Cornell, is the first to apply a…

Physics & Astronomy

Plasmonics: A wave without diffraction

An unusual wave that does not spread out as it travels could become a key component in speedy computer chips that use beams of light to carry and process data….

Physics & Astronomy

Optics: Statistics light the way

Millions of years of evolution have molded our eyes into highly sensitive optical detectors, surpassing even many man-made devices. Now, Leonid Krivitsky and…

Life & Chemistry

Carbon capture: Making use of minerals

Removing excess carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere may be essential to curb severe climate change. Possible, but expensive, methods include burying the…

Studies and Analyses

Migraine and Depression: Exploring Brain Size Links

“Studies show that people with migraine have double the risk of depression compared to people without migraine,” said study author Larus S. Gudmundsson, PhD,…

Life & Chemistry

Immune Cell Activation Insights in Multiple Sclerosis

Biological processes are generally based on events at the molecular and cellular level. To understand what happens in the course of infections, diseases or…

Awards Funding

Dr. Lapo Bogani Wins 2013 Nicholas Kurti Science Prize

The award is one of the most prestigious honors available to young scientists, and is sponsored by Oxford Instruments, to commemorate Prof. Nicholas Kurti, who…

Environmental Conservation

Future of Reefs: The Role of Pulsating Soft Corals

The feathery polyp tentacles of the xeniid soft corals open and shut like birds’ wings. These soft corals make pulsating movements – a rarity among sessile sea…

Life & Chemistry

Drought makes Borneo’s trees flower at the same time

Evolutionary biologists from the University of Zurich have identified two genes that indicate when the plants are about to flower. By monitoring these genes…

Environmental Conservation

Protecting Great Apes: New Manual for Forest Concessions

While most conservation efforts are focused on protecting great apes and other species in Central Africa's protected areas, a significant area of the region's…

Earth Sciences

Satellites Track Storm System Behind Moore, OK Tornado

The tornado that struck Moore on the afternoon of Monday, May 20, was an F-4 tornado on the enhanced Fujita scale, according to the National Weather Service….

Health & Medicine

Changing cancer's environment to halt its spread

By studying the roles two proteins, thrombospondin-1 and prosaposin, play in discouraging cancer metastasis, a trans-Atlantic research team has identified a…

Life & Chemistry

Genetic Variation Linked to Better Pulmonary Fibrosis Survival

The study found that a particular genetic variation helps predict survival in some cases of pulmonary fibrosis, a chronic progressive disease with a median…

Studies and Analyses

Early Signs of Motor Disorders Uncovered in Pan-European Study

For the first time, an international group of researchers led by the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and the Bonn University Hospital has…

Life & Chemistry

New Method Creates Accurate Molecule Mirror Images

In pharmaceuticals, it is important that the correct form of the molecule is used. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have been able to produce the…

Life & Chemistry

New Biomarkers Identified for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

This finding, the first of its kind and led by UC’s Bruce Yacyshyn, MD, is being presented via podium presentation by staff from Walter Reed National Military…

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