Belief about nicotine influences cravings, brain activity
Craving relief may depend more on the belief of satisfaction than actual relief, according to scientists at the Virginia Tech...
Cure for chytrid: Scientists discover method to eliminate killer fungus
Research published today details the first-ever successful elimination of a fatal chytrid fungus in a wild amphibian, marking a major...
American Gut Project expands to Asia
University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers are expanding the American Gut Project into Asia. The goal of...
Mass extinctions remove species but not ecological variety
Credit: Stewart Edie/University of Chicago Sixty-five million years ago, clouds of ash choked the skies over Earth. Dinosaurs, along with...
Genetics Society of America honors David Kingsley with 2017 GSA Medal
Credit: David Kingsley The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce that David Kingsley, PhD is the 2017...
Autophagy under the microscope as never before
We don't tend to wrap our recycling waste in bubble wrap but that's essentially what cells do during the cellular...
Scientists reveal rules for making ribs
Credit: Francesca Mariani Scientists from the USC Stem Cell lab of Francesca Mariani recently shared a recipe for ribs, and...
World’s first successful artificial insemination of southern…
DNA tests have confirmed that one of the three southern rockhopper penguin chicks born at Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan between June...
Choreographing the microRNA-target dance
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – January 19, 2017 – Scientists face a conundrum in their quest to understand...
Predator control can have unintended consequences
Credit: Daniel O. Hunter Introduced predators pose threats to biodiversity and are implicated in the extinction of many native species....
Decoding the Axolotl genome
Credit: IMP A team of researchers led by scientists in Vienna, Dresden and Heidelberg has decoded the entire genetic information...
Consumption of natural estrogens in cow’s milk does not affect…
Philadelphia, PA, August 3, 2016 – Estrogen occurs naturally in cow's milk. Recently, there has been concern that consuming milk...
Scripps Florida scientists unveil critical mechanism of memory formation
JUPITER, FL – Nov. 19, 2015 – In a new study that could have implications for future drug discovery efforts...
Researchers discover how selenium is incorporated into proteins
Credit: Miljan Simonovic. Humans need eight essential trace elements for good health, and one of them is selenium – a...
Tea-time means leopard-time in India
Credit: Kalyan Varma A new WCS study finds that leopards are abundant in tea-garden landscapes in north-eastern India, but that...
NSF announces new long-term ecological research sites off Alaska, New…
Credit: Sarah Thornton, UAF National Science Foundation (NSF) grants will support two new Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites. Scientists will...
Going native — for the soil?
Prairie gardens offer Midwestern suburban dwellers an alternative option to the traditional grass lawn. Their combination of native grasses, like...
The tragedy of the seagrass commons
Credit: Swansea University Writing in the Journal Fish & Fisheries, Dr Richard Unsworth of Swansea University (together with colleagues at...
HKU researchers generate tomatoes with enhanced antioxidant properties by genetic…
Credit: The University of Hong Kong The School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, the University of Hong Kong (HKU),...
