How the world’s fastest muscle created four unique bird species
Credit: Video courtesy of Matthew Fuxjager When the male bearded manakin snaps its wings at lightning speed, it's more than...
How will Texas law HB 810 impact stem cell-based intervention clinics?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 30, 2018-A new study takes a close look at the...
Preventing sudden cardiac death with genome editing
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Each year, at least 3 million people worldwide die of sudden cardiac death. In the...
Scientists call for unified standards in 3D genome and epigenetic data
Just as a map of the world is more than a list of places and street names, the genome is...
Research may shed light on controlling catastrophic disease of bats
Credit: Daniel Lindner, USDA Forest Service MADISON, Wis., (Oct. 30, 2018) - With help from the National Fish and Wildlife...
Clodagh O’Shea receives Allen Distinguished Investigator award to study genome
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(October 30, 2018) Clodagh O'Shea, a professor in Salk's Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory and a...
Modelling a future fuelled by sustainable energy
University of Adelaide economists have modelled the transition from a world powered by fossil fuels to one in which sustainable...
Photosynthesis like a moss
Credit: Masakazu Iwai/Berkeley Lab Moss evolved after algae but before vascular land plants, such as ferns and trees, making them...
Deforestation triggered mass extinction of endemic animal species in Haiti
Credit: Image courtesy of Claudio Contreras The loss of more than 99 percent of primary, virgin forests in Haiti is...
Tiny beetle trapped in amber might show how landmasses shifted
Credit: (c) Field Museum, Shuhei Yamamoto In 2016, Shuhei Yamamoto obtained a penny-sized piece of Burmese amber from Hukawng Valley...
Your blood pressure and heart rate change to meet physical and social demands
BINGHAMTON, NY - Blood pressure and heart rate are not fixed, but rather they adapt to meet physical and social...
Fermented dairy products may protect against heart attack
Credit: Raija Törrönen Men who eat plenty of fermented dairy products have a smaller risk of incident coronary heart disease...
New species of Swallowtail butterfly discovered in Fiji
Credit: Greg Kerr A spectacular new butterfly species has been discovered on the Pacific Island of Vanua Levu in Fiji....
City of Hope opens CAR T trial for HER2 breast cancer patients with brain metastases
City of Hope opens first-of-its-kind CAR T clinical trial for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer that has spread to the...
How some heart cells cope with high blood pressure
Credit: Image by The University of Tokyo. No copyright restrictions. Individual cells within the same heart cope differently with high...
The 10-foot-tall microscopes helping combat world’s worst diseases
Credit: University of Leeds The century old mission to understand how the proteins responsible for amyloid-based diseases such as Alzheimer's,...
Researchers find correlation between showerhead bacteria and lung infections
Washington, DC - October 30, 2018 - Researchers from the University of Colorado, Boulder have now shown that the regions...
Discovery of Zika virus in monkeys suggests disease may also have wild cycle
Credit: Scientific Reports Zika virus has been detected in dead monkeys found in Brazil near São José do Rio Preto,...
Giant killers
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- Giant kelp forests -- those ethereal, swaying columns of seaweed found in the intermediate to deep...
Study: Increasing frequency of ocean storms could alter kelp forest ecosystems
Credit: University of Virginia/University of California, Santa Barbara A large-scale, long-term experiment on kelp forests off Southern California brings new...
