New gene catalog of ocean microbiome reveals surprises
Credit: HOT Program, UHM SOEST Microbes dominate the planet, especially the ocean, and help support the entire marine food web. ...
SLU biologist receives $480,000 to study singing insects’ serenades
Credit: Ellen Hutti, Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS - Thanks to a recent $480,000 grant from the National Science Foundation ...
Early Indian Ocean trade routes bring chicken, black rat to eastern Africa
Credit: Photo credit: Mark Horton The earliest introduction of domestic chickens and black rats from Asia to the east coast ...
Bacteria stab amoebae with micro-daggers
Credit: Leo Popovich Bacteria have to watch out for amoeba. Hungry amoebae hunt them: they catch them with their pseudopodia ...
Two-step process leads to cell immortalization and cancer
A mutation that helps make cells immortal is critical to the development of a tumor, but new research at the ...
Study of nervous system cells can help to understand degenerative diseases
Credit: Suely Nagahashi Marie and Thais Galatro, University of São Paulo Medical School The results of a new research showed ...
Female mouse embryos actively remove male reproductive systems
Credit: NIEHS A protein called COUP-TFII determines whether a mouse embryo develops a male reproductive tract, according to researchers at ...
Antibiotics found to weaken body’s ability to fight off disease
Credit: Sanjay Suchak, University Communications Adding another reason for doctors to avoid the overuse of antibiotics, new research shows that ...
Collagen in cartilage tissues behaves like liquid crystals in a smart phone screen
Cartilage in our joints contains collagen which behaves a bit like the liquid crystals on a smart phone screen, according ...
Poisonings went hand in hand with the drinking water in Pompeii
Credit: SDU The ancient Romans were famous for their advanced water supply. But the drinking water in the pipelines was ...
How the genome sets its functional micro-architecture
Credit: Pierre Fabre and Lucille Lopez-Delisle/EPFL The genes that are involved in the development of the fetus are activated in ...
Scientist emphasizes importance of multi-level thinking
Credit: Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences An unusual paper "On multi-level thinking and scientific understanding" appears in ...
First successful wild whale shark health assessments performed
Credit: Georgia Aquarium ATLANTA (Aug. 2, 2017) - For the first time ever, scientists successfully performed health assessments, including collecting ...
Peroxisomes identified as ‘fighters’ in the battle against bacterial infections
Credit: Melissa Fabrizio A new addition to the fight against bacteria comes in the unlikely form of an organelle that ...
Slowing dangerous bacteria may be more effective than killing them, researchers report
Credit: Illustration by Jennifer Oosthuizen, CDC CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered a mechanism that ...
Scientists compare soil microbes in no-till, conventional tilling systems of Pacific Northwest farms
Credit: The American Phytopathological Society St. Paul, Minn. (August 2017)--In recent decades, growers have increasingly been adopting no-till farming to ...
Smells like queen spirit
Credit: JUERGEN LIEBIG RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- Queen ants spend most of their time having babies. To reign supreme in ...
Smithsonian manatee count informs policy recommendations
Credit: Ana Endara, STRI All three of the world's manatee species are threatened with extinction: the Amazonian Manatee, the African ...
New terahertz imaging approach could speed up skin cancer detection
Credit: Rayko Stantchev, University of Exeter WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a new terahertz imaging approach that, for the first ...
Computer approaches human skill for first time in mapping brain
Credit: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash. - A WSU research team for the first time has developed a computer algorithm ...
