Wildlife of northern Central African Republic in danger
Credit: B.Mandaba/Ecofaune+ The first aerial assessment of the impact of Central African Republic's recent conflict on wildlife and other natural...
Study shows high pregnancy failure, nutritional stress in southern resident killer whales
Credit: Jane Cogan Study shows high pregnancy failure in southern resident killer whales; links to nutritional stress and low salmon...
Researchers find link between food allergies and childhood anxiety
June 29, 2017 -- Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and...
Mitochondria-targeted antioxidant SkQ1 helps to treat diabetic wounds
Members of the Faculty of Biology and A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, a unit of the Lomonosov Moscow State...
UTA study recommends that children with autism be checked for DCD
(University of Texas at Arlington) UTA researchers are recommending in a new study that children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder...
Bringing CRISPR into focus
Credit: Maofu Liao/Harvard Medical School At a glance: New study generates near-atomic resolution images of key steps in how CRISPR...
Newly identified small RNA fragments defend the genome when it’s ‘naked’
Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Our genomes are minefields, studded with potentially damaging DNA sequences over which hundreds of thousands...
Penn collaboration produces surprising insights into the properties of butterfly wings
Credit: Daniel Janzen A collaboration between biologists and materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania is yielding new insights into...
Bright thinking leads to breakthrough in nuclear threat detection science
Credit: (Photo by Randy Wong) LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Taking inspiration from an unusual source, a Sandia National Laboratories team has...
More milkweeds located throughout the landscape can help conserve monarchs
Credit: Karen Oberhauser, University of Minnesota Image provided by Fred Ormand and Joyce Pearsall. Adding milkweeds and other native flowering...
Variation at a central metabolic gene influences male fruit fly lifespan
Credit: NC State University The overexpression of an important gene that regulates energy metabolism can cause a severe shortening of...
Camera-trap research paves the way for global monitoring networks
Credit: S. Sunarto/WWF Biodiversity loss is one of the driving factors in ecosystem change, on par with climate change and...
Cleveland Clinic researcher receives $3.4 million NIH grant for epilepsy surgery research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $3.4 million grant to Cleveland Clinic to develop a tool to predict...
Penn gastroenterologists receive funding to continue research partnership on Barrett’s Esophagus
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - A research group in the division of Gastroenterology in the Perelman School of Medicine at...
Taiwan DCB, PITDC, TMU and Insilico Medicine join forces to apply AI for biomedical research
Credit: Insilico Medicine Thursday June 29, 2017, Taipei, Taiwan: The Development Center for Biotechnology (DCB), the Medical and Pharmaceutical Industrial...
New anesthesia dosing models may increase safety of remifentanil for obese patients and children
CHICAGO - Researchers have developed new dosing models that may provide the scientific basis for more accurate administration of remifentanil,...
Eighty-five percent of Spanish children eat too much salt
Salt is a hidden enemy in children's diets. So says the conclusion of a study by researchers from the Complutense...
Understanding the epidemiology of sarcopenia throughout the lifecourse
Sarcopenia is an age-related syndrome which is characterised by progressive and generalised loss of muscle mass and strength. How prevalent...
CVIA volume 2 issue 2 major new China focus issue
Credit: CVIA Beijing, 16 June, 2017: The new journal Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (CVIA) has just published the second issue...
Treating lymphatic fluid leaks improves protein loss in patients with single-ventricle heart disease
Focusing on a rare but devastating complication in patients with single-ventricle heart disease, a research team has revealed the role...
