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Getting a grasp on India’s malaria burden
A method that involves infecting liver cells with mosquito-bred parasites could improve the study of malaria in IndiaCredit: Mindy Takamiya/Kyoto...
More ecosystem engineers create stability, preventing extinctions
Credit: Justin Yeakel When we think of engineering in nature, we tend to think of beavers -- the tree-felling, dam-building...
Grassroots dog vaccinations can help stop rabies, but not alone
Rabies is preventable. Inequality has kept it a threat.Credit: © Ravi Ruparel. In the US, dying from rabies is virtually...
Novel biomarker discovery could lead to early diagnosis for deadly preeclampsia
The discovery of two new biomarkers has the potential to predict key underlying causes of preeclampsia and could lead to...
Does DNA in the water tell us how many fish are there?
Credit: Reiji Masuda River water, lake water, and seawater contain DNA belonging to organisms such as animals and plants. Ecologists...
Towards lasers powerful enough to investigate a new kind of physics
An international team of researchers has demonstrated an innovative technique for increasing the intensity of lasersCredit: AIP Publishing In a...
Anaplasmosis bacterium tinkers with tick’s gene expression to spread to new hosts
Discovery points to new vaccine target for protection against tick-borne diseasesCredit: Erik Karits, Pixabay For the first time, scientists have...
A loving ‘outsider’s’ bird’s eye-view of China’s transformation
World Scientific publishes 'China's Millennium Transformation, the Belt and Road Initiative,' an unusual book by Da Hsuan FengCredit: World Scientific...
University of Oregon scientists dissociate water apart efficiently with new catalysts
Using a new approach, they were able to study and improve the water-dissociation reaction that rips apart water molecules in...
nTIDE June 2020 Jobs Report: Numbers up but COVID spikes may impact economic recovery
Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire nTIDE Report -- featuring the nonprofit National Organization on Disability, which guides business...
Fluorine enables separation-free ‘chiral chromatographic analysis’
Credit: ZHAO Yanchun Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently developed a...
Moss protein corrects genetic defects of other plants
Study by the University of Bonn could contribute to the development of more efficient cropsCredit: © Bastian Oldenkott/Uni Bonn Almost...
Science fiction becomes fact — Teleportation helps to create live musical performance
Credit: University of Plymouth Teleportation is most commonly the stuff of science fiction and, for many, would conjure up the...