Connecting Research and Experts with Journalists

• share
• favorite_border

DNA enzyme may be factor in natural mutagenesis and in process by which mutant bacteria are formed, according to a University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientist.

• share
• favorite_border

Researchers have created the world's first mouse model to explain how folic acid protects against human birth defects. This will enable researchers to understand how folic acid protects against birth defects such as neural tube defects and cleft lip and palate.

• share
• favorite_border

More than 265 transplant experts from around the world will be in Omaha Oct. 6 to 9 for the International Small Bowel Transplant Symposium hosted by the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska Health System.

• share
• favorite_border

Slower-growing but more robust lawns and healthier rice plants with larger grains could be among the benefits of research results published in the Oct. 7 edition of Nature.

• share
• favorite_border

A new genetic "fingerprinting" method developed by University of Nebraska food scientists is revealing surprising insights about potentially deadly E. coli 0157:H7 bacteria.

• share
• favorite_border

University of Nebraska-Lincoln veterinary science research is helping reveal how herpes viruses cause disease and perpetuate themselves in humans and is offering hope for new herpes vaccines and treatments (Science, 2-25-00).

• share
• favorite_border

Scientists looking for evidence of the way New England's glacial Lake Hitchcock drained at the end of the last Ice Age found evidence of El Nino effects in New England's climate 17,500 to 13,500 years ago during the late Pleistocene era (Science, 5-12-00).

• share
• favorite_border

Water turns to two-dimensional glass and shrinks under extreme pressure, temperature and confinement, researchers discover. (Nature, 11-30-00)

• share
• favorite_border

To biologists, they have been one of the most enigmatic groups of animals in the world. They're the parasitic horsehair worms of the phylum Nematomorpha. Until last year, no one had a clue about their life cycle, which has been unraveled by research to indicate a cyst carries the worm from larva to host.

• share
• favorite_border

Working with large-scale computer simulations, a team of scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln modeled four new kinds of crystalline ice, all by adjusting the diameter of a carbon nanotube by less than one-quarter of a nanometer.