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A new analysis by David Geary at the University of Missouri and Gijsbert Stoet at the University of Essex in ...

Flat-faced purebred dogs, including Neapolitan mastiffs, English bulldogs and American cocker spaniels, are up to 34 times more likely than other breeds to suffer from cherry eye

Flat-faced purebred dogs, including Neapolitan mastiffs, English bulldogs and American cocker spaniels, are up to 34 times more likely than ...

Younger people are more likely than older generations to express interest in owning non-domesticated animals, such as pythons, as pets

Younger people are more likely than older generations to express interest in owning non-domesticated animals, such as pythons, as petsCredit: ...

Fig 1. Map with location of southern Levantine Epipaleolithic sites mentioned in the text (a), plan of Ohalo II (b) and plan of Brush Hut 1 (c).

23,000 years ago, humans in Israel enjoyed a new bounty of food options

As climate shifted 23,000 years ago, humans in Israel experienced a new abundance of food, according to a study published ...

Scientists regrow frog’s lost leg

For millions of patients who have lost limbs for reasons ranging from diabetes to trauma, the possibility of regaining function ...

Genome Atlas to support the rescue of biodiversity in Europe

To provide important genomic data to inform research about Europe’s biodiversity, scientists from 48 different countries initiated the "European Reference ...

Immunofluorescence microscopy showing a single neuritic amyloid plaque with the localization of Apolipoprotein E (ApoE)

Study now links non-mutated Apolipoprotein E to dementia in the aging brain

Philadelpia, January 26, 2022 – Researchers exploring dementia-related proteins in the brain identified Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) as a key misfolded ...

Evolutionary patterns of the inner ear of bats

Bats use different inner ear structures to help navigate the world through sound

Two major groups of bats that use echolocation have different structures for connecting the inner ear to the brain, according ...

Microscopic inner ear structures reveal why major groups of bats echolocate differently

Lots of bats echolocate-- they emit high-pitched squeaks, and based on how those sound waves bounce off their surroundings, they're ...

Blood markers can predict depression in pregnancy

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (January 26, 2022) — Signs of inflammation in the blood reliably predict and identify severe depression in ...

Katerina Akassoglou elected lifetime AAAS Fellow

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—January 26, 2022—Katerina Akassoglou, PhD, senior investigator at Gladstone Institutes, has been elected into the American Association for ...

Louisville scientist receives $6.7 million to learn how metals cause lung cancer

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – For nearly three decades, John Pierce Wise Sr. has investigated the connection between exposure to metals and ...

New brain cancer guidelines to improve care, patient survival

New guidelines for treating cancers that have spread to the brain are poised to improve care for patients and help ...

Zoologist solves the 100-year-old mystery of the floating phantom midge

VANCOUVER—In spring 2018, Dr. Philip Matthews spent a typical afternoon capturing dragonflies in the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) experimental ...

New research strengthens link between glaciers and Earth’s ‘Great Unconformity’

HANOVER, N.H. – January 25, 2022 – New research provides further evidence that rocks representing up to a billion years ...

Scientists discover new avian immunological pathway

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A research team led by a biomedical scientist at the University of California, Riverside, has discovered a ...

Hungry yeast are tiny, living thermometers

Link to full release:Credit: Luther Davis/Alexey Merz/University of Washington Link to full release: https://www.washington.edu/news/2022/01/25/yeast-phase-separation/ FROM: James Urton University of Washington ...

Fat injections could treat common cause of foot pain

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 25, 2021 – A novel technique that transplants a patient’s own fat into the sole of their foot ...

Retina layers segmented by deep learning

NIH study classifies vision loss and retinal changes in Stargardt disease

National Eye Institute researchers developed and validated an artificial-intelligence-based method to evaluate patients with Stargardt, an eye disease that can ...

Using the eye as a window into heart disease