Largest study of malaria gene function reveals many potential drug targets
The malaria parasite's success is owed to the stripping down of its genome to the bare essential genes, scientists at ...
How neurons sense our everyday life
Credit: King's College London Researchers from King's College London have discovered a molecular mechanism that enables neuronal connections to change ...
How social rank can trigger vulnerability to stress
Stress is a major risk factor for a range of psychopathologies. However, stress does not affect everyone equally: in the ...
Tiny cellular antennae key to fat formation in muscle
Credit: Daniel Kopinke Like it or not, as we age, our muscle cells are slowly exchanged, one by one, for ...
Squirrels have long memory for problem solving
Squirrels can remember problem-solving techniques for long periods and can apply them to new situations, researchers have discovered. University of ...
Ancient plankton-like microfossils span 2 continents
Credit: by Dorothy Oehler on a sample provided by Maud Walsh (Louisiana State University Large, robust, lens-shaped microfossils from the ...
UCSF Health affiliates with Golden Gate Urgent Care
UCSF Health has signed an affiliation with Golden Gate Urgent Care (GGUC) to collaborate in providing top-quality urgent care in ...
Can sexual risk and behaviors among women help explain HIV disparities by race/ethnicity?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 13, 2017 -- Researchers examined the sexual behaviors of a ...
New imaging technique able to watch molecular dynamics of neurodegenerative diseases
Credit: Sophie Brasselet, Institut Fresnel, CNRS, Aix Marseille Université WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a fast and practical molecular-scale imaging ...
Chillier winters, smaller beaks
Credit: Charles Davies; Flickr Although Charles Darwin lived and worked in the 19th century, modern evolutionary biologists are far from ...
Why Japan’s coastal zones might be disappearing due to climate change
As G20 Summit 2017 drew to a close, the issue of climate change divided the world. As it happened, 19 ...
Testing a soft artificial heart
Credit: ETH Zurich It looks like a real heart. And this is the goal of the first entirely soft artificial ...
EPSRC announces £138 million investment in research-business partnerships
(Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Two major investments in research partnerships that will strengthen the links between the UK's ...
Fungi can be used as biomonitors for assessing radioactivity in our environment
Credit: UEx Radioactive contamination is the unwanted presence of radioactive substances in the environment. Our environment is contaminated by naturally-occurring ...
Why a single nuke’s impact shouldn’t only be measured in megatons
Credit: Public domain As the notion of nuclear hostilities leaps from its old, Cold War perch into modern debate, new ...
Mapping invasive alien species of Union concern
The first ever Baseline Distribution of Invasive Alien Species of Union concern has been published by the JRC. The 37 ...
A big step? Trial will test improvisational dance as dementia therapy
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - July 13, 2017- Depending on what generation you belong to, the term "improvisational dance" may conjure up ...
DFG Senate Commission presents 53rd list of maximum workplace concentrations and biological tolerance values
The Permanent Senate Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area of the Deutsche ...
IPM’s dapivirine vaginal ring now under review by European Medicines Agency
SILVER SPRING, Md. (July 13, 2017) -- The nonprofit International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) is pleased to announce that its ...
Getting to the roots of Sahara mustard invasion in the American Southwest
Credit: Susan Gilliland In 2015, a rural community in southeastern California approached Daniel Winkler and his doctoral advisor, Travis Huxman, ...
