New plants on the block: Taller species are taking over in a warming Arctic
Credit: Anne Bjorkman Frankfurt/ Leipzig, Germany, 26.09.2018. Until now, the Arctic tundra has been the domain of low-growing grasses and ...
Month: September 2018
Bees’ medicine chest should include sunflower pollen, UMass Amherst study suggests
Credit: UMass Amherst/Jonathan Giacomini AMHERST, Mass. - A new study by Jonathan Giacomini and his former advisor, evolutionary ecologist Lynn ...
UMass Amherst neuroscientists see clues to brain maturation in adolescent rats
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - One of the outstanding questions in neurodevelopment research has been identifying how connections in ...
Berkeley evolutionary biologist wins Milner Centre Prize
Credit: University of Bath Evolutionary biologist Dr Alison Feder from University of California, Berkeley has been named winner of the ...
Olfactory cells may act as ‘Trojan horse,’ carry anticancer therapy to deadly brain tumors
A special type of cell essential to the ability of olfactory neurons to regenerate may be genetically engineered to deliver ...
Improving kidney function in older populations
Credit: University of Houston Mohammad Asghar, associate professor of pharmacology at the University of Houston, has been awarded $459,000 from ...
Shaking the swarm
Credit: Credit: Jacob Peters, Orit Peleg/Harvard University If it's a bad idea to kick a hornet's nest, it's certainly a ...
‘Paintable’ chemotherapy shrinks skin tumors in mice
Skin acts as the first line of defense against pathogens and other harmful material from outside the body. Yet this ...
Milk protein shown to alleviate chemotherapy side effects
Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Patients undergoing cancer treatment confront a number of well-documented side effects. Chemotherapy and ...
Invasive snakes ‘hitchhiking’ on planes
Credit: Professor Bryan Fry A team of international scientists has discovered why brown tree snakes have become one of the ...
Novel method produces highest-ever signals for human embryonic stem cell detection
Credit: SUTD A new method developed by researchers at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) can potentially ensure patient ...
More persistent weather patterns in US linked to Arctic warming
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory Persistent weather conditions, including dry and wet spells, generally have increased in the United States, perhaps ...
Connection between ‘chalky teeth’ in children and the uptake of Bisphenol A not likely
Depending on symptomatic and phenotypic severity the condition of chalky teeth is categorised into three levels. The symptoms of chalky ...
A mechanism of color pattern formation in ladybird beetles
Credit: NIBB Many ladybirds have attractive color patterns consisting of black and red. This prominent color pattern is thought to ...
African swine fever: No risk to consumers
The ASF pathogen is a virus which infects domestic pigs and wild boar and which leads to a severe, often ...
Researchers discover molecule involved in the repair of liver wounds
Credit: Nádia Duarte, IGC. A new study from researchers of CEDOC-NOVA Medical School|Faculdade de Ciências Médicas and Instituto Gulbenkian de ...
New online tool helps EU member states map and assess ecosystems and their services
Credit: ESMERALDA The recently introduced online resource - the ESMERALDA MAES Explorer - aids decision-makers from policy, science and society ...
A study using Drosophila sheds light on the metastatic behavior of human tumors
Credit: Lara Barrio, IRB Barcelona Metastatic tumours are characterised by a high degree of chromosomal instability--that is to say a ...
Urine liquid biopsies could help monitor bladder cancer treatment
Scientists have shown for the first time that immune cells in the urine of bladder cancer patients accurately reflect those ...
2018 NCRI Cancer Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 4-6
The NCRI Cancer Conference is the UK's largest forum showcasing the latest advances in cancer research and attracting over 1,500 ...
