Scientists use nanoparticle-delivered gene therapy to inhibit blinding eye disease in rodents

In experiments in rats and mice, two Johns Hopkins scientists—an engineer and an ophthalmologist—report the successful…

High-throughput sequencing tracks historical spread of grapevine viruses

Grapevine is infected by more than 90 viruses, with new viral species discovered yearly as a…

RNA key in helping stem cells know what to become

Look deep inside our cells, and you’ll find that each has an identical genome -a complete…

New collection of stars, not born in our galaxy, discovered in Milky Way

Astronomers can go their whole career without finding a new object in the sky. But for…

NASA finds powerful storm's around Tropical Storm Cristina's center

A low-pressure area strengthened quickly and became Tropical Storm Cristina in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and infrared…

Contest between superconductivity and insulating states in 'magic angle' graphene

If you stack two layers of graphene one on top of the other, and rotate them…

Edouard now post-tropical in NASA-NOAA satellite imagery

When NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the western North Atlantic Ocean on July 6, it…

'Growing' active sites on quantum dots for robust hydrogen photogeneration

Very recently, Chinese researchers had achieved site- and spatial- selective integration of earth-abundant metal ions (e.g.,…

Study reveals many Great Lakes state parks impacted by record-high water levels

Every summer millions of people visit parks and protected areas along the shorelines of the Great…

Climate change may cause extreme waves in Arctic

Extreme ocean surface waves with a devastating impact on coastal communities and infrastructure in the Arctic…