Strains — not species — of gut microbes hold key to health and disease
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—December 23, 2021—Every day, the billions of bacteria that inhabit your digestive system change; the food you eat, ...
‘Pop-up’ electronic sensors could detect when individual heart cells misbehave
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a powerful new tool that monitors the electrical activity inside ...
Wildlife cameras show how foxes, racoons, stone martens and domestic cats get along in Berlin before and during Covid 19 lockdowns
Avoid or compete, eat or be eaten, exploit or cooperate – biotic communities are shaped by species interactions in many ...
Out of Africa: The path of Homo sapiens
What routes did Homo sapiens take on his way from Africa to Europe and Asia in the previous millennia? The ...
Microorganism sheds new light on cancer resistance
A simple, marine-dwelling creature known as Trichoplax adhaerens has some remarkable properties. The organism can tolerate unusually high doses of ...
Mapping the musical mind
Researchers in Japan used magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of secondary school students during a task focused on ...
Communication between cells plays a major role in deciding their fate
Scientists have found a way to prove that biochemical signals sent from cell to cell play an important role in ...
Venoms in snakes and salivary protein in mammals share a common origin
Snakes, some lizards and even a few mammals can have a venomous bite. Although these lineages split more than 300 ...
Researchers lay groundwork for potential dog-allergy vaccine
There have been many research efforts describing the nature and progression of dog allergies, but there have been very few ...
Humble lizards offer surprising approach to engineering artificial lungs
When it comes to studying lungs, humans take up all the air, but it turns out scientists have a lot ...
Scripps Research discovery illuminates how brain cells die in prion diseases
LA JOLLA, CA—Prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), are fast-moving, fatal dementia syndromes associated with the formation of aggregates ...
COVID-19 awareness and preparedness among healthcare workers worldwide
A survey of healthcare workers in 57 countries found that while overall preparedness for and awareness of the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Genetic discoveries could improve spinach’s disease resistance and palatability
Most of us are familiar with “spinach teeth,” the harmless but gritty-chalky mouthfeel caused by the vegetable.Credit: Image credit: Xiaofeng ...
These fish work together by the hundreds of thousands to make waves
In the sports arena, spectators sometimes create a spectacle known as a wave, as successive groups stand up in unison ...
Harvard geneticists’ new research on ancient Britain contains insights on language, ancestry, kinship, milk
New research revealing a major migration to the island of Great Britain offers fresh insights into the languages spoken at ...
MBL team succeeds in culturing the pygmy zebra octopus
By Emily GreenhalghCredit: Tim Briggs By Emily Greenhalgh WOODS HOLE, Mass. — For generations, scientists have relied on a handful ...
Innovative X-ray imaging shows Covid-19 can cause vascular damage to the heart
An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Göttingen and Hannover Medical School (MHH) has detected significant changes in the ...
T cells: No time to die
They are at the forefront in the fight against viruses, bacteria, and malignant cells: the T cells of our immune ...
New species of bacteria named after the John Innes Centre
A newly discovered species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has been named after the academic institute where it was identified – the ...
Developing bioactive coatings for better orthopaedic implants
Montréal and Varennes, December 22, 2021 - Bioactive coatings play a vital role in the success of implants such as ...
