New approaches for Parkinson’s treatment? Researchers study metabolic changes
Researchers at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg and partners in Constance, Munich and...
Meat — and how it’s cooked — may impact kidney…
A new study indicates that a meat-rich diet may increase the risk of developing kidney cancer through mechanisms related to...
Black widows are color-coded to deter predators without tipping off prey
DURHAM, N.C. — Secret codes and hidden messages aren't just for computer security experts or kids passing notes in class...
Neural stem cells control their own fate
To date, it has been assumed that the differentiation of stem cells depends on the environment they are embedded in....
Pandas don’t like it hot: Temperature, not food is biggest…
Credit: Photo by Mingxi Li. Although a new Drexel study found that the metabolism of giant pandas is higher than...
Under-studied boreal habitat key for North America’s ducks
Credit: M. Carriere Knowing where migrating birds came from and where they're headed is essential for their conservation and management....
Saving the Underworld: Clarifying the stygofauna classification for…
Credit: Renata Nunes Inevitably, many habitats, including the particularly vulnerable subterranean ones, will continue being erased from our planet as...
Why mole rats are more flexible than we previously thought
One of the most interesting facts about mole rats – that, as with ants and termites, individuals specialise in particular...
A non-proliferative signaling center kicks off tooth development
Credit: Laura Ahtiainen Despite extensive research on the molecular regulation of early tooth development, little is known about the cellular...
Medical mystery solved in record time
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine In a study published today in PLoS ONE, a team of researchers reports solving a...
Airline industry could fly thousands of miles on biofuel from a new…
Credit: Claire Benjamin/University of Illinois A Boeing 747 burns one gallon of jet fuel each second. A recent analysis from...
Got eczema? It may just be bad evolutionary luck, study finds
Credit: Credit: Duo BUFFALO, N.Y. — Some genetic diseases persist for generation after generation because the genes that cause them...
Identification of protein crucial to lymphatic system development
Credit: Osaka University Osaka – Lymphatic vessels form a circulatory system that plays an important role in controlling the amount...
Life on the edge prepares plants for climate change
Credit: MPI f. Developmental Biology/ M. Exposito-Alonso In the first study to predict whether different populations of the same plant...
Eat less and be happy — really!
IMAGE: This is from the inaugural issue of the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. Credit: Cornell Food and...
GI problems in autism may originate in genes, study suggests
Credit: Kara Gross Margolis, M.D., and Michael Gershon, M.D., Columbia University Medical Center NEW YORK, NY (April 25, 2016)–Researchers at...
Plant’s parent genes cooperate in shaping their child
Credit: ITbM, Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan – A group of plant biologists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) of...
Unlocking the secrets of gene expression
Your DNA governs more than just what color your eyes are and whether you can curl your tongue. Your genes...
Russian scientists discover how certain proteins may help fight chlamydia
Scientists from Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Physical-Chemical Medicine, Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology and MIPT have shown that...
A new function of the chromosomal terminus, vital for human health,…
DNA forms chromosome by combining with various proteins and other matters. Telemere, the chromosome ends, is playing an inevitable role...
