Aspects of Asian elephants’ social life are related to their amount of stress hormones
An international team of scientists found that sociality is linked to stress in Asian elephants. For example, loneliness increased male ...
A gene could prevent Parkinson’s disease
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the destruction of a specific population of neurons: the dopaminergic neurons. The ...
One bird’s joy is another bird’s sorrow
Ruffs are characterized by three supergene variants that lead to different appearances and courtship behavior in males. Whether these variants ...
Rare monkey adapts to fragmented habitat by dieting and reducing activity
A team of scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Oxford Brookes University found that a rare species of ...
ERC Consolidator Grant to Gregor Mendel Institute researcher Yasin Dagdas
Yasin Dagdas, Group Leader at the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, ...
NIH-funded research to investigate lower jaw development
How the lower jaw — mandible — develops and consequently how and why some developmental birth defects occur is the ...
Zhang is co-editor of book on advances in heart bioengineering
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Twenty years ago, clinicians first attempted to regenerate a failing human heart by injecting muscle myoblasts into ...
Blood test may indicate higher risk pregnancies in patients with COVID-19
A small preliminary study from Northwestern Medicine has shown that a blood test may identify risk of stillbirth and placentitis ...
Performance of elite show-jumping horses reveals that faults are predictable, and are most likely at jumps with water and fences in combination
Performance of elite show-jumping horses reveals that faults are predictable, and are most likely at jumps with water and fences ...
Ancient greenhouse warming informs potential future climate change scenarios
56 million years ago a period of abrupt global warming known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), was caused by ...
A potential new target for cancer immunotherapies
Tumors can use an enzyme called ART1 to thwart antitumor immune cells, making the enzyme a promising new target for ...
3D matrix ultrasound accurately identifies cardiovascular injury in healthy individuals
A new imaging technique for real 3D vascular ultrasound could become a key tool in strategies aimed at preventing cardiovascular ...
ISU scientists receive federal grant to advance research on blood stem cells
AMES, Iowa – The ability to generate a patient’s blood cells in order to treat blood diseases has eluded scientists ...
Bacteria in the bile duct may provide a new clue for treating liver disease
Philadelphia, March 16, 2022 -- Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a disease in which inflammation causes scars in the bile ...
Burst of rapid cell motion in 3D tumour model
Biological processes such as wound healing and cancer cell invasion rely on the collective and coordinated motion of living cells. ...
Computer simulation brings us closer to schools of fishlike underwater research drones
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from ESPCI Paris, Chiba University, and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology have used a 3D ...
Discovery of an immune escape mechanism promoting Listeria infection of the central nervous system
Some "hypervirulent" strains of Listeria monocytogenes have a greater capacity to infect the central nervous system. Scientists from the Institut ...
For accuracy, brain studies of complex behavior require thousands of people
As brain scans have become more detailed and informative in recent decades, neuroimaging has seemed to promise a way for ...
Getting bacteria and yeast to talk to each other, thanks to a ‘nanotranslator’
Cells communicate with one another in the language of chemistry, but those from different kingdoms, such as bacteria and yeast, ...
Enhancing drug development process with more precise animal models
Verifying the efficacy and safety of a drug, clinical trials are a hurdle that must be cleared before a new ...
