Month: January 2018

Credit: Lindsay Arvin Trees growing atop the Bald Mountain Granite in the southern Sierra Nevada rely on nutrients from windblown ...

Honeycomb maze offers significant improvement over current spatial navigation tests

Credit: Sainsbury Wellcome Centre A powerful new tool for the study of spatial memory was today described in Nature as ...

Yale cancer researchers propose new ways to select patients for clinical trials

Credit: Yale Cancer Center New Haven, Conn. — Many clinical trials for breast cancer fail to give clear answers on ...

Alzheimer’s disease found to be a diabetic disorder of the brain

Credit: Shigeki Moriguchi Researchers at Tohoku University have found a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, by noticing a similarity in ...

Study finds local fidelity key to ocean-wide recovery of humpback…

Credit: Photo Credit: National Park Service photo under NMFS Scientific Research permit #945-1776-01 NEWPORT, Ore. – Humpback whales can migrate ...

Researchers discover that a ‘muscle’ cancer is not really a muscle cancer

Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital St. Jude Children's Research Hospital oncologists have discovered the cell type that gives rise ...

A simple and efficient 3-D fabrication technique for bio-inspired hierarchical structures

WASHINGTON — Nature is no doubt the world's best biological engineer, whose simple, exquisite but powerful designs have inspired scientists ...

UTokyo concludes agreement to develop personalized cancer vaccine

Credit: 2018 BrightPath Biotherapeutics Co., Ltd. Tokyo – The University of Tokyo entered an agreement for developing a personalized cancer ...

Experts: 1 in 3 cases of dementia preventable, nonmedical therapies…

Credit: Keck Medicine of USC LOS ANGELES – Managing lifestyle factors such as hearing loss, smoking, hypertension and depression could ...

Researchers find that antiretroviral therapy reduces HIV in the female reproductive tract

Chapel Hill, NC – For the first time, investigators in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of North ...

Snub-nosed monkeys: Conservation challenges in the face of environmental uncertainty

Snub-nosed moneys provide an excellent example of adaptive radiation and display uncommon ecological adaptations. They live along an elevation gradient ...

Living on borrowed time

Unfortunately, loss of plant and animal habitat leads to local species extinctions and a loss of diversity from ecosystems. Fortunately, ...

New study explores how anxiety can aggravate asthma

Anxiety sensitivity, in simple terms, is a fear of fear. But when people with anxiety sensitivity also have asthma, their ...

Study finds no benefit, but possible harm, from drug used to prevent…

Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – March 14, 2017 – A drug commonly prescribed to pregnant women with a ...

‘Smart’ immune cells: Emerging cancer therapy research…

Credit: Collins lab, UC Davis Assistant Professor Sean Collins, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in the UC Davis College ...

For the first time, brain surface stimulation provides ‘touch’ feedback to…

Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington In the quest to restore movement to people with spinal cord injuries, researchers have focused ...

$420,000 grant funds study on polio-like virus

Credit: TTUHSC El Paso EL PASO, Texas – Haoquan Wu, Ph.D., has received a two-year, $420,000 grant from the National ...

What happens when your brain’s support cells aren’t so supportive?

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA — (Jan. 10, 2018) Potentially explaining why even healthy brains don't function well with age, ...

Plant metabolic protein tailored for nighttime growth

Stanford, CA–Everyone who took high school biology learned that photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae and select bacteria ...

Worm study may resolve discrepancies in research on aging