Using urban pigeons to monitor lead pollution
Credit: David Slipher, UC Davis College of Biological Sciences Tom Lehrer sang about poisoning them, but those pigeons in the...
Future brain therapies for Parkinson’s possible with stem cell bioengineering…
Scientists at Rutgers and Stanford universities have created a new technology that could someday help treat Parkinson's disease and other...
U-M, international research team explore genetic architecture of type…
ANN ARBOR–New research from a large international team of scientists offers a more complete picture of the genes responsible for...
Have flowers devised the ultimate weapon of distraction?
Credit: Professor Scott Armbruster Nectar, the high-energy 'honey' produced by flowers, might be a brilliant distraction technique to help protect...
Mind-controlled device helps stroke patients retrain brains to move…
Credit: Leuthardt lab Stroke patients who learned to use their minds to open and close a device fitted over their...
UTA researchers focus on pain management in older adults
Credit: UTA Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington are focusing their attention on pain management in older adults,...
FOXI3 gene is involved in dental cusp formation
Credit: MPI f. Evolutionary Anthropology Hairless dog breeds differ from other dogs not only by lacking a coat, but also...
Pollutants in the Arctic environment are threatening polar bear health
Credit: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry A new analysis has found that although the risk of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in...
Bee Time wins 2015 Governor General’s Literary Award for…
Simon Fraser University professor Mark Winston's prolific book on his lifetime as a world-leading bee expert–Bee Time: Lessons From the...
Scientists approve the similarity between reprogrammed and embryonic stem cells
Stem cells are specialized undifferentiated cells that can divide and have the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell...
How cells move
Credit: Pontus Nordenfelt It's a known fact that cells can move around the body, but how they do it has...
PostDoc Project Plan invites collaborators to study how plant lice…
While Climate change steadily takes its toll, promising to raise temperatures around the world by at least 1.5 °C within...
Mini-intestine grown in a test tube for nutritional research
This news release is available in German. Research efforts on the intestine have increased in recent years. Owing to its...
Without prescription coverage, some cancer patients do without even…
A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment shows that breast cancer...
Distant brain regions selectively recruit stem cells
Credit: University of Basel, Biozentrum Stem cells persist in the adult mammalian brain and generate new neurons throughout life. A...
Could minority-serving hospitals be unfairly penalized by CMS for readmissions?
Credit: Georgetown University WASHINGTON — A new probe into why colorectal surgery patients end up back in the hospital after...
North Korean nuclear test measured in southwest Germany
Credit: (Photo: KIT, GPI) The recent nuclear test by the regime in North Korea was even measurable in Southwest Germany....
Buried in ash, ancient Salvadoran village shows images of daily life
A continuing look at a Maya village in El Salvador–frozen in time by a blanket of volcanic ash from 1,400...
Biodiversity is 3-D
Credit: TSU The species-area relationship (SAC) is a long-time considered pattern in ecology and is discussed in most of academic...
Trial suggests way to personalize heart health in diabetes
Credit: @John Soares BOSTON – (Nov. 29, 2017) – Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center have taken another step toward solving...
