Surface-going cave crickets actually more isolated than cave-dwelling cousins
Credit: Photo by Jean Krejca. People sometimes rely on the stereotype of a kid living in their parents' basement to...
Mantis shrimp roll their eyes to improve their vision
Credit: Michael Bok, University of Lund Imagine rolling your eyes to help you see more clearly. Although it wouldn't work...
Unconventional cell division in the Caribbean Sea
Credit: Copyright: Nikolaus Leisch, Nature Microbiology Most bacteria divide by placing a protein called FtsZ at the division site. Traditionally,...
Juvenile cowbirds sneak out at night, study finds
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new study explores how a young cowbird, left as an egg in the nest of a...
Microscopy advancement by Eric Betzig, colleagues wins 2015 AAAS…
IMAGE: Shown left to right are Newcomb Cleveland Prize winners Eric Betzig, Kai Wang, Wesley Legant, and Bi-Chang Chen. Credit:...
Atomic-scale MRI holds promise for new drug discovery
Credit: Viktor Perunicic, University of Melbourne Researchers at the University of Melbourne have developed a way to radically miniaturise a...
Why some hummingbirds choose to balloon up before flying south
Credit: Ken Jones New U of T Scarborough research has found adult ruby-throated hummingbirds choose to pack on significant weight...
Antibody breaks leukemia’s hold, providing new therapeutic…
Credit: UC San Diego Health Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive cancer known for drug resistance and relapse. In...
Important to maintain a diversity of habitats in the sea
Credit: Christian Alsterberg Researchers from University of Gothenburg and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) show that both species...
We’ve got tapeworms and scabies! And reproducible research
Two new research papers on scabies and tapeworms published today in the Open Access journal GigaScience also include a collaboration...
Your viruses could reveal your travel history, and more
The genomes of two distinct strains of the virus that causes the common lip cold sore, herpes simplex virus type...
Live-imaging technique for mice seen as boost to studies of brain…
EUGENE, Ore. — University of Oregon scientists have looked into the brains of living mice to see in real time...
The bright side of an infectious protein
Credit: MPI-CBG Prions are self-propagating protein aggregates that can be transmitted between cells. The aggregates are associated with human diseases....
Mechanism of familial Parkinson’s disease clarified in fruit fly model
Credit: Tohoku University Osaka – Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder, with up to 10 million...
Latest research reveals sitting in traffic jams is officially bad for…
With millions of motorists set to hit the road for the bank holiday weekend, drivers have been urged to close...
Salk scientists adapt computer program to gauge eye spasm severity
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA — If two clinicians observe the same patient with blepharospasm — uncontrollable muscle contractions around...
‘Beiging’ white fat cells to fight diabetes
PHILADELPHIA – Researchers are getting closer to learning how to turn white fat cells into brown fat cells, in a...
The origin of snakes — new evolutionary scenario presented
Credit: University of Helsinki. The early evolution of snakes happened from surface-terrestrial to burrowing in the lizard-snake transition suggests a...
Could a saliva test be next for lupus?
Credit: University of Houston The symptoms of systemic lupus erythematosus (known as SLE or lupus) can fool you. You might...
Ultrastructure of a condensed chromosome-like structure in a…
Credit: NIPS/NINS Researchers centered at Japan's National Institute for Physiological Sciences reveal details of the structure of compacted DNA transiently...
