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),...
MPFI researchers make significant advance in understanding calcium…
Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience Approximately eight years ago, former Research Group Leader at Max Planck Florida Institute...
Scientists describe new research model to enhance Zika virus research
MADISON, Wis. — Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM) have developed one of the first...
Mapping DROSHA’s cleavage sites
Credit: IBS Each cell of our body is the result of an orchestra of sophisticated mechanisms that control which genes...
Urban hedgehogs — more at home in the city than you thought
Credit: James M. Turner A species that is 15 million years old, hedgehogs have survived all kinds of environmental changes...
Born to break: Mutation causes fragile bones
IMAGE: The picture shows a cross-section of the femur of a mouse. The white and purple cells are bone marrow,...
Tiny dinosaur may have dazzled mates with rainbow ruff and a bony…
Credit: Hu, et al., 2018 Ancient dinosaurs were adorned in some amazing ways, from the horns of the triceratops to...
Organism responsible for paralytic shellfish poisoning may affect fisheries
The toxic dinoflagellate, Alexandrium fundyense, is a photosynthetic plankton–a microscopic organism floating in the ocean, unable to swim against a...
NIH creates Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations
Researchers with the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, have collaborated with physicians...
Sibling bonding is stronger when dad’s around
Credit: Emily C. Lynch, Project Papio, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey For many female mammals, mothers and maternal...
Squirrels use ‘chunking’ to organize their favorite nuts
Credit: Amber Engle Like trick-or-treaters sorting their Halloween candy haul, fox squirrels apparently organize their stashes of nuts by variety,...
