Partnership for a healthy brain
Credit: Salk Institute/Waitt Center LA JOLLA--(Sept. 14, 2017) Salk Institute scientists have discovered that an interaction between two key proteins ...
$1.6M from NSF to UC Davis to study water, land use in disadvantaged communities
Credit: Joe Proudman/UC Davis The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.6M to the University of California, Davis to analyze the ...
Study offers scientific explanation for why spurned males abandon courtship attempts
Credit: Adams lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Unsuccessful courtship attempts by males create aversive memories that can reduce their ...
Chimera viruses can help the fight against lymphomas
Credit: Pedro Simas Lab, iMM Lisboa Researchers from Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) Lisboa have created a chimera virus that ...
How does a cell maintain its identity during replication?
Credit: The lab of Ken Zaret, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA - Prior to cell division, ...
‘Mysterious’ ancient creature was definitely an animal, research confirms
'Mysterious' ancient creature was definitely an animal, research confirms It lived well over 550 million years ago, is known only ...
Cost of not adapting to climate change would be at least five times higher
Credit: Agência FAPESP Coastal cities deal with the constant fear that sea levels should continue to rise in the years ...
IUPUI cell biologist tackles age-related hearing loss
Credit: School of Science at IUPUI INDIANAPOLIS -- Cell biologist Benjamin J. Perrin of the School of Science at Indiana ...
Old fish few and far between under fishing pressure
Credit: Victoria O'Connell Like old-growth trees in a forest, old fish in the ocean play important roles in the diversity ...
Biologist reaches into electric eel tank, comes out with equation to measure shocks
Credit: Ken Catania/Vanderbilt University The shock from a young electric eel feels like accidentally touching a horse fence. A big ...
Obese inducing brain mechanism
Credit: NIBB Leptin is an adipocyte-derived hormone that stimulates hypothalamic neurons to strongly inhibit food intake. Leptin signaling in the ...
New knowledge on how HIV beats the body’s early immune response
Credit: Westmead Institute for Medical Research In an important step towards eradicating HIV-associated viral reservoirs, researchers at Sydney's Westmead Institute ...
No strings attached for underwater video system
Credit: © 2017 KAUST A flexible and cost-effective technology for streaming high-quality underwater video images has been developed by researchers ...
‘Handedness’ in scale-eating fish: Nature and nurture
Credit: Yuichi Takeuchi Nagoya, Japan - The preference for using one side of the body over the other, as observed ...
Filtering molecules from the water or air with nanomembranes
Credit: Photo: Bielefeld University Free-standing carbon membranes that are a millionth of a millimetre thin: these are a special research ...
Self-healing gold particles
Credit: Photo: KIT Self-healing materials are able to repair autonomously defects, such as scratches, cracks or dents, and resume their ...
New inhibitor brings new hope
Credit: Source: Maurer Lab Scientists from the cluster of excellence BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies at the University of ...
Could interstellar ice provide the answer to birth of DNA?
Researchers at the University of York have shown that molecules brought to earth in meteorite strikes could potentially be converted ...
Prellis Biologics receives funding to create human organs with 3-D printing
Credit: Prellis Biologics San Francisco, CA--September 14, 2017--Wait lists for human organ transplants could be entirely eliminated through patent-pending technologies ...
Google Glass app helps autistic children with social interactions
A prototype software application, to be used with the optical head-mounted display Google Glass, has been designed as a social-skills ...
