400-million-year-old evolutionary arms race helps researchers understand HIV
Understanding the evolution of a 400 million-year-old anti-viral protein that first emerged in marine life, is helping researchers get the...
Some like it hot!
Credit: Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth, UFZ The world of reptiles may well include creatures that are more spectacular than the Gehyra variegata,...
UTIA plant geneticist named Fulbright scholar
Credit: Photo courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - In Africa as well as across other continents, several indigenous crop species have...
Programming synthetic molecular codes to turn genes ‘on’
Credit: SaiPadma Priya A team of researchers in Japan developed a synthetic molecular code to script gene activation. The process,...
Revealed mechanism behind citrus canker bacteria’s defense system for predators
Xanthomonas citri, the bacterium that causes citrus canker, a disease responsible for major damage to lemon and orange groves in...
Crafting a human niche
Credit: Fuentes In "How Humans and Apes Are Different and Why It Matters," published in the Journal of Anthropological Research,...
New study highlights opportunity to restore abundance to Hawaiian reef fisheries
Credit: Kostantinos Stamoulis Unsustainable fishing has depleted coastal fisheries worldwide, threatening food security and cultural identity for many coastal and...
Gut bacteria play key role in anti-seizure effects of ketogenic diet, say UCLA scientists
Credit: Reed Hutchinson/UCLA UCLA scientists have identified specific gut bacteria that play an essential role in the anti-seizure effects of...
Selective neural connections can be reestablished in retina after injury, study finds
The brain's ability to form new neural connections, called neuroplasticity, is crucial to recovery from some types of brain injury,...
Mongooses inherit behavior from role models rather than parents
Credit: Harry Marshall Young mongooses learn lifelong habits from role models rather than inheriting them from genetic parents, new research...
For the past 70 years, the Danube has almost never frozen over
Today, only the eldest inhabitants of the Danube Delta recall that, in the past, you could skate on the river...
Chameleons are masters of nanotechnology (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, May 24, 2018 -- Chameleons are nature's most talented masters of color. They use...
MSU technology and app could help endangered primates, slow illegal trafficking
Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - New facial recognition software and app invented at Michigan State University can...
The big clean up after stress
Credit: Buchberger team Toxic substances, nutrient shortage, viral infection, heat and many other events trigger stress responses in cells. In...
A cascade of immune processes offers insights to triple-negative breast cancer
Credit: Rogel Cancer Center ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- Cancer is crafty. To survive and thrive, tumors find a way of...
Is lower-fat diet associated with breast cancer overall survival?
Bottom Line: Women diagnosed with breast cancer during the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification trial who were following a lower-fat...
Tumor cells evade death through in extremis DNA repair
Credit: Author: Begoña Cánovas, IRB Barcelona Greater knowledge of the mechanisms that contribute to the survival of tumour cells is...
Giant clams tell the story of past typhoons
Credit: Komagoe T. et al., Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, April 19, 2018 A highly precise method to determine past...
Cell damage caused by the pesticide DDT is palliated
Since it was first synthesized almost 150 years ago, the pesticide Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, better known as DDT, has been widely used...
3D printed sugar offers sweet solution for tissue engineering, device manufacturing
Credit: Video courtesy of Matthew Gelber CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- University of Illinois engineers built a 3-D printer that offers a...
