New process in root development discovered
Credit: IST Austria/Ivan Kulik As the plant root grows, a root cap protects its fragile tip. Every few hours, the ...
Month: July 2018
Do bacteria ever go extinct? New research says yes, bigtime
Credit: Stilianos Louca, University of British Columbia. Bacteria go extinct at substantial rates, although appear to avoid the mass extinctions ...
An increase in Southern Ocean upwelling may explain the Holocene CO2 rise
Credit: Anja Studer; Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Human populations and civilization expanded rapidly over the last 10 000 years, ...
Carbon ‘leak’ may have warmed the planet for 11,000 years, encouraging human civilization
Credit: Anja Studer, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry The oceans are the planet's most important depository for atmospheric carbon dioxide ...
Samara Polytech scientists developed a unique wine recipe
Credit: @SamaraPolytech The founder of the legendary Spanish winery, senor Torres, taught his children: "The best wine is made at ...
Great tit birds have as much impulse control as chimpanzees
Biologists at Lund University in Sweden have in a recent study shown that the great tit, a common European songbird, ...
Largest king penguin colony has shrunk nearly 90%
Credit: © Henry Weimerskirch Known since the 1960s, the colony of king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on Île aux Cochons, in ...
Climate taxes on agriculture could lead to more food insecurity than climate change itself
New IIASA-led research has found that a single climate mitigation scheme applied to all sectors, such as a global carbon ...
Marshall University researchers identify inflammatory biomarkers in T cells
Credit: Marshall University The Marshall University School of Pharmacy, in collaboration with the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of ...
Study provides next clue to preventing dangerous episodes of low blood sugar with diabetes
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA -- A new LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center study reveals that a novel biomarker might give us ...
Researchers reveal hidden rules of genetics for how life on Earth began
Credit: Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga CHAPEL HILL, NC - All living things use the genetic code to "translate" DNA-based genetic information into ...
Researchers demonstrate shark vertebral band pairs are related to growth, not time
Band pairs in shark vertebrae have been used for decades to estimate shark age, of practical use in conserving overfished ...
A new climate model can predict dengue outbreaks in the Caribbean region
Changes in climate, such as rain and drought, can affect the risk of mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue, chikungunya and ...
Montane pine forests reached the northeastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula 50,000 years ago
Credit: CEPAP-UAB A study conducted by the UAB and the IPHES confirms a continuous presence of montane coniferous forests from ...
Madagascar’s lemurs use millipedes for their tummy troubles
Credit: Louise Peckre Madagascar's red-fronted lemurs may have a secret weapon from nature's medicine cabinet: millipedes. This is according to ...
Inflammation inhibitor delivered directly to kidneys reverses course of destructive nephritis
Credit: Phil Jones, AU Senior Photographer AUGUSTA, Ga. (July 30, 2018) - Using a manmade version of a human antibody ...
Harnessing hair loss gene could improve cancer immunotherapy
NEW YORK, NY (July 30, 2018)--A gene that's associated with an autoimmune form of hair loss could be exploited to ...
Sequencing a malaria mosquito’s motherline
A team led by scientists from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has sequenced and annotated the first ...
Study shows how Oropouche virus replicates in human cells
The strategy used by the Oropouche virus to replicate in human cells has been described for the first time by ...
Vanderbilt team finds potent antibodies against three Ebola viruses
Credit: Photo by Susan Urmy Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and their colleagues are a step closer to developing ...
