MERS-like coronavirus identified in Ugandan bat
Credit: Kirsten Gilardi, UC Davis A team of researchers in the United States and Uganda has identified a novel coronavirus ...
Month: February 2018
Winter sets up breeding success: Study
Credit: Stéphanie Doucet For migratory birds, breeding grounds are where the action is. But a new study by University of ...
IU study finds fly growth mimics cancer cells, creating new tool in…
Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Scientists who study a molecule known to play a role in certain types of ...
Remains of bizarre group of extinct snail-eating Australian marsupials…
Fossil remains of a previously unknown family of carnivorous Australian marsupials that lived 15 million years ago have been discovered ...
Size matters for marine protected areas designed to aid coral
Credit: Credit: Cody Clements, Georgia Tech For marine protected areas established to help coral reefs recover from overfishing, size really ...
Could a diabetes drug be used for Motor Neurone Disease?
Credit: Lancaster University Could a diabetes drug be used for Motor Neurone Disease? A diabetes drug could one day be ...
2016 winners of FASEB BioArt competition announced
Credit: FASEB BioArt winners Michael Shen, Jasmine Temple, Leslie Mitchell, Nick Phillips, James Chuang, Jiarui Wang, and Jef Boeke The ...
Promising new therapeutic approach for debilitating bone disease
Credit: Dr Michelle McDonald Friday 30 June, 2017: An Australian-led research team has demonstrated a new therapeutic approach that can ...
Can the environment help control disease in Asian aquaculture?
The University of Southampton is leading an international project to understand how the environment can help to control the risk ...
Melting ice sheet could expose frozen Cold War-era hazardous waste
TORONTO, Aug. 4, 2016 – Climate change is threatening to expose hazardous waste at an abandoned camp thought to be ...
Altering Huntington’s patients’ skin cells into brain…
Credit: Matheus Victor Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have transformed skin cells from patients with ...
Is laughter the greatest medicine for cancer patients?
Credit: Lancaster University Analysis led by Lancaster University researchers suggests that spontaneous humour is used and appreciated by people with ...
Omega-3 intake reduces cardiac death risk according to comprehensive…
Credit: Maki et al Results from a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Lipidology showed that in 14 ...
Tracking humanity: The new key to forecasting global change
Credit: Image courtesy of Sander van der Leeuw and Anthropocene Phoenix, AZ — Humankind may still prove to be the ...
Neurons form synapse clusters
Credit: MPI of Neurobiology / Scheuss The cerebral cortex resembles a vast switchboard. Countless lines carrying information about the environment, ...
Birds of a feather
Credit: Eddy Perez, LSU Biologists have always been fascinated by the diversity and changeability of life on Earth and have ...
How dolphins inspired a potentially life-saving method for treating…
Credit: Douglas Levere, University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. — A physiological process used commonly by mammals like seals and dolphins ...
FDA clears heart disease trial at Boston Children’s Hospital…
BOSTON, NEW YORK, and MELBOURNE, Australia, April 03, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Boston Children's Hospital, the pediatric teaching hospital of ...
Artificial ‘skin’ gives robotic hand a sense of touch
Credit: University of Houston A team of researchers from the University of Houston has reported a breakthrough in stretchable electronics ...
Preclinical trials of radiopharmaceutical for cancer diagnosis
Credit: RIA Novosti (Russian news agency) A radiopharmaceutical for advanced identification of cancer, labeled with the technetium-99 isotope, is ready ...
