‘Transient contractions’ in urinary bladder may lead to…
Researchers at the University of Vermont College of Medicine have made a discovery that helps explain how we know when ...
Month: February 2018
Activating dopamine neurons could turn off binge-like eating behavior
HOUSTON – (Aug. 8, 2016) – While binge eating affects about 10 percent of adults in the United States, the ...
aerial surveys of elephants and other mammals may underestimate numbers
Credit: Elephants Without Borders AMHERST, Mass. – As lead researchers in Africa's recent Great Elephant Census, wildlife ecologists Curtice Griffin ...
Seeing RNA at the nanoscale
Cells contain thousands of messenger RNA molecules, which carry copies of DNA’s genetic instructions to the rest of the cell. ...
Malaria research at CU Anschutz receives Gates Foundation support
Credit: University of Colorado The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations ...
Sniffing out a mate with precision
Credit: Nishino H. et al., Current Biology, February 8, 2018 Male cockroaches can "see" the spatial distribution of female pheromones ...
Mitochondrial protein in cardiac muscle cells linked to heart failure,…
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA–Reducing a protein found in the mitochondria of cardiac muscle cells initiates cardiac dysfunction and heart ...
Unraveling how a brain works, block by high-tech block
Credit: Kiju Lee Psychologists have long used building blocks to assess cognitive skills. But researchers at Case Western Reserve University ...
Fralin researchers use new technology to sequence mosquito sex chromosome
Credit: Jim Stroup, Virginia Tech A team of researchers with the Fralin Life Science Institute at Virginia Tech, working with ...
New book on prion diseases from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: Carlo Condello, University of California, San Francisco Cold Spring Harbor, NY – Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) today ...
Sniffing out a mate with precision
Credit: Nishino H. et al., Current Biology, February 8, 2018 Male cockroaches can "see" the spatial distribution of female pheromones ...
Ball games and circuit strength training boost bone health in schoolchildren
Credit: F-MARC The study, which was published in the February 2018 issue of the recognised British Journal of Sports Medicine, ...
New research on Fragile X syndrome reinforces importance of early…
Credit: Caleb Doll, Broadie Laboratory, Vanderbilt University Fragile X syndrome–the most common heritable cause of autism spectrum disorder–is something of ...
Surgical tools made smaller with origami to make surgery less invasive
BYU mechanical engineering professors Larry Howell and Spencer Magleby have made a name for themselves by applying the principles of ...
Breakthrough in scaling up life-changing stem cell production
Scientists have discovered a new method of creating human stem cells which could solve the big problem of the large-scale ...
Ball games and circuit strength training boost bone health in schoolchildren
Credit: F-MARC The study, which was published in the February 2018 issue of the recognised British Journal of Sports Medicine, ...
Molecular signature for aggressive brain tumor uncovered
Credit: Sandro Santagata, Brigham and Women's Hospital Meningiomas are the most common primary brain tumors, but the term encompasses over ...
Fern fossil data clarifies origination and extinction of species
Credit: Samuli Lehtonen Throughout the history of life, new groups of species have flourished at the expense of earlier ones ...
Individual quality trumps reproductive tradeoffs in ducks
Not all ducks are created equal. In female Wood Ducks, variation in individual quality is what matters for breeding success ...
Ball games and circuit strength training boost bone health in schoolchildren
Credit: F-MARC The study, which was published in the February 2018 issue of the recognised British Journal of Sports Medicine, ...
