Tooth wear sheds light on the feeding habits of ancient elephant relatives
Credit: drawing by Nicola Heath How can we ever know what ancient animals ate? For the first time, the changing...
Queen’s University Belfast researcher turning dirty tinfoil into…
Credit: Queen's University Belfast A researcher at Queen's University Belfast has discovered a way to convert dirty aluminium foil into...
Gene study to shed light on how some people stay sharp in old age
Credit: University of Edinburgh More than one thousand people have had their entire genetic make-up decoded as part of a...
More blood vessels in adipose tissue may alleviate type 2 diabetes
Researchers at Wihuri Research Institute and University of Helsinki, Finland, in collaboration with scientists from Vanderbilt and Groningen Universities used...
Liver may sway sweet tooth, alcohol consumption
IMAGE: Cravings for sweet foods are common, yet the mechanisms that influence the ''sweet tooth'' are not well-defined. This visual...
Skeletons developed as chemistry of oceans changed, study shows
Credit: Alina Konovalenko Skeletons and shells first came into being 550 million years ago as the chemical make-up of seawater...
IBS breakthrough in the treatment of cancer
Scientists from the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have successfully inhibited the growth of colon tumors in mice with mismatch...
Conserved role for Ovo protein in reproductive cell development in mice and fruit flies
Credit: Image by Roblan/Shutterstock, Szasz-Fabian Jozsef/Shutterstock Tsukuba, Japan – Germline cells are the only cells that develop into eggs or...
Love is blind… to food waste
For many, there's nothing like sitting down for a family meal at a table filled with hot, ready-to-serve food. Many...
Computerized biology, or how to control a population of cells with a computer
Credit: © Gregory Batt, Jakob Ruess, Chetan Aditya (Inria / Institut Pasteur) Researchers from the Pasteur Institute and Inria, with...
New strategy to fight mosquitoes in a more efficient and sustainable way
Credit: © E. van Herk Mosquitoes continue to build resistance to existing pesticides. Research has now shown that the chemical...
Simplifying information aids fight against childhood obesity, study…
Credit: UVA Health System Providing simplified health information designed for parents with low health literacy helps all families in childhood...
Why bearcats smell like buttered popcorn
Credit: Photo courtesy of Carolina Tiger Rescue DURHAM, N.C. — The bearcat. The binturong. Whatever you call this shy, shaggy-haired...
New method of calculating protein interaction to speed up drug development
Credit: Image courtesy of MIPT Press Office Biologists and mathematicians from MIPT, Stony Brook University and other scientific research centres...
New evidence for California Condors’ genetic bottleneck
Credit: J. D'Elia The existing genetic diversity of California Condors, all of which are descended from just 14 individuals, is...
New tool, RODEO, promises to capture the breadth of microbial…
Credit: Source: DOI:10.1038/nchembio.2319 In an age of booming biotechnology, it might be easy to forget how much we still rely...
JNeurosci: Highlights from the Oct. 5 issue
Credit: Kramer et al. Check out these newsworthy studies from the October 5, 2016, issue of JNeurosci. Media interested in...
MSU tackles mystery of protein folding
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Proteins are the workhorses of life, mediating almost all biological events in every life form. Scientists...
Dairy farmers should rethink a cow’s curfew, says UBC researchers
Credit: UBC Dairy cows housed indoors want to break curfew and roam free, suggests new research from the University of...
Brain’s immune cells linked to Alzheimer’s,…
LA JOLLA–Scientists have, for the first time, characterized the molecular markers that make the brain’s front lines of immune defense–cells...
