Fire ant venom compounds may lead to skin treatments
Credit: From Arbiser et al Scientific Reports (2017). Compounds derived from fire ant venom can reduce skin thickening and inflammation...
New method for monitoring fetal heartbeat
Researchers have developed a technique to accurately isolate fetal heart sounds from background noise in acoustic recordings, allowing them to...
Brain Composer: ‘Thinking’ melodies onto a musical score
(Graz University of Technology) TU Graz researchers develop new brain-computer interface application which allows music to be composed by the...
MSU biologist learned what Przewalski’s horse ate more than a century ago
Credit: Natalia Spasskaya A scientist from the Lomonosov Moscow State University's Faculty of Biology together with her colleagues has explained...
A biosensor detects adulteration of horse in beef meat within 1 hour
Credit: Nate Stelner. The identification of horse meat adulterating others as beef meat is possible thanks to an electrochemical biosensor...
Desert locusts: New risks in the light of climate change
Credit: © CIRAD - A. Foucart Desert locusts, a pest under close scrutiny Desert locusts are a major pest on...
Ancient wetlands offer window into climate change
Credit: University of Adelaide Environmental researchers have uncovered a wealth of information about a unique part of Australia that offers...
Mixing and matching yeast DNA
Credit: Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) The billions of cells in your body can be traced to a single cell. That...
Proteins keep a grip on cells
Credit: Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) While you are what you eat, cells are what they touch. The cells with which...
Helping plants adapt to climate change
In climate change scenarios, abiotic stresses, such as drought and heat stress, become intensified, leading to severe crop loss. Selection...
A novel and practical fab-route for superomniphobic liquid-free surfaces
Credit: KAIST A joint research team led by Professor Hee Tak Kim and Shin-Hyun Kim in the Department of Chemical...
Fathers can influence the sex of their offspring, scientists show
It has traditionally been thought that in mammals only mothers are able to influence the sex of their offspring. But...
Cocaine users’ brains unable to extinguish drug associations
Cocaine-addicted individuals say they find the drug much less enjoyable after years of use, but they have great difficulty quitting....
Birds’ unique skulls linked to young dinosaur brains
Credit: Fabbri et al., 2017 Bird skulls and brains look like those of young dinosaurs, providing clues to their unique...
The business of bioanalysis: Expert panel addresses hot topics in industry
Filmed at the 11th WRIB (Los Angeles, CA, USA, 3-7 April 2017), the series covers conversation between Scott Fountain (Charles...
Protein research could help in hunt for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s cures
Credit: University of Kent Protein research at University of Kent could help in hunt for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's cures Research...
Georgetown hosts global health security expert Beth Cameron
WASHINGTON (Sept. 11, 2017) - Georgetown University's Center for Global Health Science and Security and the Georgetown Global Health Initiative...
Scientists construct first predictive model of inflammatory bowel disease
STAMFORD, Conn. & NEW YORK, NY -- September 11, 2017 -- Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount...
Biotech hormone reduces cost of inducing ovulation in livestock
A Brazilian startup called Kimera Biotecnologia, based in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, has produced the first biotech version of equine chorionic...
Toxicologists recommend human cell-based methods to identify asthma-causing chemicals
Credit: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Chemicals that could potentially cause asthma through an immune reaction could be better identified...
