Biotechnology

Trying to understand the water bear body plan

Tardigrades, often called “water bears”, are fascinating microscopic organisms k...

U.S. National Science Foundation awards UT $18 million ...

Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Nina Fefferman became a mathematic...

Macrophage mix helps determine rate and fate of fatty l...

Formerly known as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, metabolic dysfunction-associated...

Building a COMPASS to navigate future pandemics

Viruses like SARS-CoV-2 don’t respect boundaries, moving between species and con...

Mosquitoes sense infrared from body heat to help track ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — While a mosquito bite is often no more than a temporar...

New gels could protect buildings during wildfires

As climate change creates hotter, drier conditions, we are seeing longer fire se...

Teaching an old metal new tricks

The metallic element samarium, when bound with other elements, is an incredibly ...

Next time you beat a virus, thank your microbial ancestors

When you get infected with a virus, some of the first weapons your body deploys ...

Two UCSB professors selected by the Gordon and Betty Mo...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — UC Santa Barbara professors Andrew Jayich and Jon Schu...

Novel PET/CT technique accurately detects neuroblastoma...

Reston, VA (August 20, 2024) —A new molecular imaging technique that pairs a nov...

Sandia Science & Technology Park injecting billions int...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Sandia Science & Technology Park is being credited with ...

USAMMDA commercial partner receives FDA emergency use a...

A U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity commercial partner received Em...

Lipid nanoparticle mRNA therapy improves survival in mo...

New Rochelle, NY, August 21, 2024—Researchers from the University of Pennsylvani...

Marshall University innovators selected for prestigious...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Two Marshall University innovators, Brad Profitt, DC, DPT, D...

Wounds are common among people who use illicit opioids,...

The animal tranquilizer xylazine is increasingly found in the illicit opioid sup...

The changes to cell DNA that could revolutionise diseas...

University of Queensland researchers have discovered a mechanism in DNA that reg...