Toxoplasma’s balancing act explained
Credit: Matthew Bowler/EMBL The parasite Toxoplasma gondii is a silent success. It infects up to 95% of people in many...
Fossilized bees were finicky pollen collectors
The ancestors of honeybees, living 50 million years ago, were fairly choosy when it came to feeding their offspring. This...
Satellites, airport visibility readings shed light on troops’…
Credit: NASA Using data from NASA satellites and airport visibility sensors, Veterans Affairs (VA) researchers and colleagues are extending an...
Scientists win UN data prize for monitoring threats to South African biodiversity hotspot
Credit: Adam Wilson BUFFALO, N.Y. — South Africa's Cape Floristic Region is one of the richest repositories of plant life...
Research shows new neurons created through exercise don’t cause…
Credit: Texas A&M Health Science Center Research has found that exercise causes more new neurons to be formed in a...
Surprising discovery — how the African tsetse fly really drinks your blood
Credit: University of Bristol Researchers at the University of Bristol have been taking a close-up look at the biting mouthparts...
DNA evidence shows that salmon hatcheries cause substantial, rapid…
CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new study on steelhead trout in Oregon offers genetic evidence that wild and hatchery fish are...
TSRI study identifies new type of protein clump that may be implicated…
LA JOLLA, CA – March 10, 2016 – A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)...
New approach could make bone marrow transplants safer
Credit: BD Colen Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists have taken the first steps toward developing a treatment that would...
A surprizing finding shines new light on the largest group of human…
Credit: Frank Schmitges et al. Toronto scientists have discovered that the largest group of human proteins, which work as genome...
Scientists reveal role for lysosome transport in Alzheimer’s disease progression
Credit: Gowrishankar et al., 2017 Researchers from Yale University School of Medicine have discovered that defects in the transport of...
Ecotourism: Loving animals to death?
Credit: Springer Watching wildlife can make more money for more people than killing it. But the planet is becoming ever-more...
Blood pressure medicine may improve conversational skills of…
IMAGE: University of Missouri researchers have found that a medication commonly used to treat high blood pressure and irregular heartbeats...
After decades of clean up attempts, world’s lakes still suffer from phosphorus…
Leading scientists warn: Phosphorus pollution is a major concern. We need to speed up recovery treatments of lakes – or...
Satellites, airport visibility readings shed light on troops’ exposure to air pollution
Credit: NASA Using data from NASA satellites and airport visibility sensors, Veterans Affairs (VA) researchers and colleagues are extending an...
More genes turned on when plants compete
Credit: Courtesy of Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. – Some people travel to northern California for wine. However, Maren...
Gene therapy for rare bleeding disorder achieves proof-of-concept
IMAGE: Paris Margaritis, D. Phil., is a hematology researcher at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Credit: The Children's Hospital of...
Tufts University nutrition scientists provide updated MyPlate for…
BOSTON (March 7, 2016)–Nutrition scientists at the Jean Mayer U. S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging...
Rice University lab runs crowd-sourced competition to create…
Big data has a bright future in personalized medicine, as demonstrated by an international competition centered at Rice University that...
Tracking deer by NASA satellite
Credit: Credits: US National Park Service Mule deer mothers are in sync with their environment, with reproduction patterns that closely...
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