Dangerous drug interactions uncovered with data science
Credit: E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune NEW YORK, NY (October 10, 2016)–Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center and the Data Science...
Gigantic crocodile with T. rex teeth was a top land predator of the…
Credit: Giovanni Bindellini Little is known about the origin and early evolution of the Notosuchia, hitherto unknown in the Jurassic...
Study reveals significant role of dust in mountain ecosystems
Credit: Lindsay Arvin Trees growing atop the Bald Mountain Granite in the southern Sierra Nevada rely on nutrients from windblown...
Study finds local fidelity key to ocean-wide recovery of humpback…
Credit: Photo Credit: National Park Service photo under NMFS Scientific Research permit #945-1776-01 NEWPORT, Ore. – Humpback whales can migrate...
Researchers discover that a ‘muscle’ cancer is not really a muscle cancer
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital St. Jude Children's Research Hospital oncologists have discovered the cell type that gives rise...
A simple and efficient 3-D fabrication technique for bio-inspired hierarchical structures
WASHINGTON — Nature is no doubt the world's best biological engineer, whose simple, exquisite but powerful designs have inspired scientists...
Snub-nosed monkeys: Conservation challenges in the face of environmental uncertainty
Snub-nosed moneys provide an excellent example of adaptive radiation and display uncommon ecological adaptations. They live along an elevation gradient...
Living on borrowed time
Unfortunately, loss of plant and animal habitat leads to local species extinctions and a loss of diversity from ecosystems. Fortunately,...
‘Smart’ immune cells: Emerging cancer therapy research…
Credit: Collins lab, UC Davis Assistant Professor Sean Collins, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in the UC Davis College...
For the first time, brain surface stimulation provides ‘touch’ feedback to…
Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington In the quest to restore movement to people with spinal cord injuries, researchers have focused...
Plant metabolic protein tailored for nighttime growth
Stanford, CA–Everyone who took high school biology learned that photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae and select bacteria...
Worm study may resolve discrepancies in research on aging
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — In matters of the fundamental molecular biology of aging, we mammals are not so different from tiny...
Habitat features and social behavior impact how baboons move as a…
Credit: Strandburg-Peshkin et al. When deciding what path to take during collective movement, individual baboons will likely follow the road...
Uptake mechanisms of cytostatics discovered
Scientists at the MaxDelbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC) and the Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP)...
How variation in body size correlates with en-route migration…
IMAGE: This image shows the birds studied by Lam and colleagues. Credit: Kelsey Bell Every spring and fall, migratory songbirds...
Microorganisms in the subsurface seabed on evolutionary standby
Credit: Photo: Stefan Braun. Graphic modified from Wikipedia and www.genesandhealth.org. Researchers at the Center for Geomicrobiology at Aarhus University, Denmark,...
Described a powerful drug to advance in the fight against familial amyloidosis
The molecule has proved in preclinical trials to be up to four times more effective than the only pharmacological treatment...
Two new snout moth genera and three new species discovered in southern China
Credit: Mingqiang Wang New members have joined the ranks of the snout moths – one of the largest groups within...
Griffith University reveals world-first 3-D image of a protein…
Griffith University's Institute for Glycomics has made scientific history by determining the first three-dimensional image of a protein linked to...
FSU research team makes Zika drug breakthrough
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A team of researchers from Florida State University, Johns Hopkins University and the National Institutes of Health...
