Technology tracks ‘bee talk’ to help improve honey bee health

A researcher has devised a new bee monitoring system to better understand what more than 20,000…

Tracing the path of Parkinson’s disease proteins

Researchers have developed a set of tools to observe, monitor and quantify how misfolded proteins associated…

Drug short-circuits cancer signaling

A new drug zeroes in on mutated nuclear receptors found in cancer and leaves normal proteins…

Recreating the wild: De-extinction, technology, and the ethics of conservation

Is extinction forever? Efforts are under way to use gene editing and other tools of biotechnology…

Primordial black holes may have helped to forge heavy elements

Astronomers like to say we are the byproducts of stars, stellar furnaces that long ago fused…

Immune cells may be key to better allergy, infection therapies

By learning how a recently discovered immune cell works in the body, researchers hope to one…

Altered gene expression in heart failure

Heart tissue from patients with heart failure exhibits increased levels of Cdk8 protein. Mimicking this increased…

Software lets designers exploit the extremely high resolution of 3-D printers

Today's 3-D printers have a resolution of 600 dots per inch, which means that they could…

Simultaneous design and nanomanufacturing speeds up fabrication

By using concurrent design and nanomanufacturing, researchers produce inexpensive material surfaces for use in ultra-thin solar…

Multiple roles of glucose metabolism identified in platelet activation and survival

Platelets, the cells in blood that enable clotting, are highly reliant on their ability to metabolize…