Singapore’s first robot masseuse ‘EMMA’ starts work
Credit: NTU Singapore A robot masseuse has started work in Singapore today. Named Emma, short for Expert Manipulative Massage Automation, ...
Type 1 diabetes and the microbiota: MAIT cells as biomarkers and new therapeutic targets
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease that develops when the immune system attacks beta cells in the pancreas. ...
Insight into our 50-plus lifespan still evolving, genetic study shows
It is an evolutionary riddle that has long puzzled scientists ... now the quest to find out why we live ...
Molecular basis for memory and learning
October 2017. Learning and memory are two important functions of the brain that are based on the brain's plasticity. Scientists ...
Research IDs key factors that help women ex-convicts avoid recidivism
New research identifies four factors that help women ex-convicts avoid committing crimes, offering insights that can be used to help ...
Gene drives have the potential to suppress mosquito populations, but resistant mosquitoes crop up
Credit: NIAID, Flickr, CC BY Researchers successfully built a gene drive to reduce female fertility in the mosquito that spreads ...
Computer program detects differences between human cells
"How many different cell types are there in a human body? And how do these differences develop? Nobody really knows," ...
Study warns of pumpkin-colored zombies
Credit: Copyright D. Johnson/VIMS. Just in time for Halloween, a new study reveals that pumpkin-colored zombies may be running rampant ...
Calorie postings on menus cause more health mentions in online restaurant reviews
Key Takeaway: In 2008 New York City introduced a rule mandating calorie postings for chain restaurants that was intended to ...
Clear lakes disguise impaired water quality
Credit: John A. Downing Looks can be deceiving. Look at a hundred lakes in the agricultural heartland of the United ...
What soot-covered, hundred-year-old birds can tell us about saving the environment
Credit: (c) Carl Fuldner and Shane DuBay, The University of Chicago and The Field Museum Horned Larks are cute little ...
Genetically boosting the nutritional value of corn could benefit millions
Credit: NASA Rutgers scientists have found an efficient way to enhance the nutritional value of corn - the world's largest ...
The human brain recalls visual features in reverse order than it detects them
Credit: Ning Qian/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK -- Scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute have contributed to solving a paradox of ...
How honeybees read the waggle dance
Credit: Courtesy of Ai et al. Neurons that enable honeybees to sense the waggle dance -- a form of symbolic ...
Watch out! Brain network calculates impact of approaching object
A neuroimaging study of two monkeys published in JNeurosci identifies a brain network that tracks the location of an object ...
Genome architecture caught in motion
PHILADELPHIA -- (Oct. 9, 2017) -- Researchers at The Wistar Institute have uncovered new aspects of the three-dimensional organization of ...
Bacteria self-organize to build working sensors
Credit: Will (Yangxiaolu) Cao, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers at Duke University have turned bacteria into the builders of ...
Cancer scientists crack the durian genome
Credit: Kevin Lim, Yong Chern Han, Cedric Ng Singapore, 9 October 2017 - Scientists from the Humphrey Oei Institute of ...
Making fat mice lean: Novel immune cells control neurons responsible for fat breakdown
Credit: Roksana Pirzgalska, IGC The biological causes underlying obesity have been under intense scrutiny with studies suggesting a link between ...
Scientists complete conservation puzzle, shaping understanding of life on earth
An international team of scientists have completed the 'atlas of life' - the first global review and map of every ...
