BALTIMORE, Maryland, June 25 -- Johns Hopkins University issued the following news: * * * A staunch voice in support of science Jeff Coller, a pioneering RNA biologist and a professor at Johns Hopkins University, has spent the past year vehemently advocating for the lifesaving promise of research in the face of federal cuts Jill Rosen Jeff Coller got into his car frustrated one morning last August. The federal government had just terminated a number of awards for mRNA research, suggesting the technology was unsafe. Coller, who has spent hi more PR

BRISBANE, Australia, June 25 (TNSjou) -- The Queensland University of Technology issued the following news: * * * Newly discovered tiny marsupial found in the NT joins the planigale genus The world's tiniest marsupials, the planigales, have just gained a new species, after extensive genetic and morphological analysis led by QUT ecologists. * Planigale petrophila, a new distinct species found in the rocky slopes in Kakadu National Park * Planigales now have nine different species - eight found in Australia and one in Papua New Guinea *  more PR

BATH, England, June 23 -- The University of Bath posted the following news: * * * Research highlighting estrogen link could explain why women are more likely to suffer from Crohn's * Scientists from the University of Bath (UK) have shed new light on how Crohn's disease develops and why it affects people differently, after finding new evidence of a link between a key immune system gene in the gut and signalling of the hormone estrogen. Crohn's disease affects around a quarter of a million people in the UK, causing chronic inflammation in t more PR