Kent State biologist nets grant to study calorie-burning process to…
Credit: Kent State University Physical activity is essential to fighting obesity, and scientists are constantly working to make this activity...
Orangutans: Lethal aggression between females
IMAGE: This is Sidony, a much older resident female who had a history of aggressive interaction with Kondor. Credit: Anna...
Army medicine opens the door for vision prosthetic prototypes
Army medical research funding has supported the development of innovative technologies to assist injured Service members and improve their quality...
Supporting pollinators could have big payoff for Texas cotton farmers
According to a new study by The University of Texas at Austin, increasing the diversity of pollinator species, including bees,...
Manipulating gene expression precisely using light
Credit: Ogasawara S., Duration control of protein expression in vivo by light-mediated reversible activation of translation. ACS Chemical Biology, Jan...
Scripps Florida scientists develop new drug delivery method for cancer…
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, FL – March 16, 2017 – Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps...
How voters would accept higher gas tax
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Americans would be more likely to accept a gas tax increase if they knew the extra...
Fixating on faces
Credit: J. Minxha/Adolphs lab When we are walking down a crowded street, our brains are constantly active, processing a myriad...
Long-snouted Amazonian catfishes including three new species to form a…
Being close relatives within the same genus, eight catfishes showed enough external differences, such as characteristic elongated mouths, hinting to...
Dr. Sakamoto explains signaling pathways in the pathogenesis of…
Credit: Stanford University Diamond Blackfan Anemia (DBA) is a condition that is characterized by a failure of the bone marrow...
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...
