Aging-US: Cellular senescence in lymphoid organs and immunosenescence
Aging-US published "Cellular senescence in lymphoid organs and immunosenescence" which reported that immunosenescence is a multi-faceted phenomenon at the root of ...
University of Montana studies how climate change could undermine biodiversity conservation goals
MISSOULA – In a new study published in the journal Communications, Earth & Environment, University of Montana researchers and colleagues ...
Genome Research publishes a special issue in Single-cell Genomics
October 1, 2021 – Genome Research (https://genome.org) publishes a special issue highlighting novel advances and insights in Single-cell Genomics.Credit: Cover artwork © ...
Scientists discover 14 genes that cause obesity
Promising news in the effort to develop drugs to treat obesity: University of Virginia scientists have identified 14 genes that ...
Experts to showcase cutting-edge research at flagship hepatology congress
EASL’s International Liver Congress™ (ILC) 2022 will be taking place in London, UK, 6–10 April 2022. Delegates can attend in ...
War in the gut: How human microbiota resist the cholera bacterium
Cholera is still an enormous problem. An acute diarrheal disease, there have been seven major pandemics in the last two ...
Researchers shed new light on mechanical regulation of epithelial tissue homeostasis
An international team of scientists, led by Professor Ana-Sunčane Smith from the Croatian Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) and the Friedrich-Alexander University ...
Wildfire bees on the brink
The number of threatened Australian native bee species is expected to increase by nearly five times after the devastating Black ...
Early accumulation of tau in the brain predicts memory decline in Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have compared how well different Alzheimer’s biomarkers predict the progression of the disease and ...
New treatment for inflammatory bowel disease: Opioids may cure that “bad gut feeling”
Opioids are a class of substances that control sensations such as pain and emotions in animals. While plant-derived opioid narcotics ...
COVID-19 hospitalizations increase among unvaccinated pregnant women
Unvaccinated pregnant women are increasingly being hospitalized with COVID-19 during a nationwide surge of the Delta variant, according to research ...
Salt stress alters legume responses to symbiotic rhizobacteria by modulating gene expression
Crop legumes are an integral part of sustainable agriculture, as several of these species represent an important protein source for ...
Pruning the dendritic tree
Researchers at the University of Bonn have shed light on the function of the enzyme SLK for the development of ...
OSU study on African buffalo offers insights on persistence of highly contagious pathogens
A new Oregon State University study on foot-and-mouth disease among buffalo in South Africa could help explain how certain extremely ...
Tennessee continues with grant focused on integrated pest management
JACKSON, Tenn. – “It’s pest management the right way,” said Heather Kelly, plant pathologist at the University of Tennessee Institute ...
AMD: Reading ability crucial indicator of functional loss
In geographic atrophy, a late form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), reading ability is closely related to the altered retinal ...
New analytical technique helps researchers spot subtle differences in subcellular chemistry
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign can now rapidly isolate and chemically characterize individual organelles within ...
Allergic stimulation activates mast cell precursor cells
Mast cell precursor cells do not just cause an increase in mature mast cells during inflammation, they also play an ...
Hagfishes break the cell size limit to make large slime threads
Researchers find large hagfishes grow extremely large cells in order to produce stronger threads that are used in their defensive ...
Breastfeeding status and duration significantly impact postpartum depression risk
According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 11 and 20 percent of women who give ...