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Environmentally conscious consumers more likely to buy chicken raised on insects or algae
Consumers who are environmentally aware will likely warm up to the idea of using alternative proteins like insect meal in...
Study reconsiders early evolution of sea urchins
New insight on the origins and early evolution of echinoids, a group that includes the sea urchins, the sand dollars,...
New research sheds light on causes of reproductive disorders, infertility, miscarriage, birth defects
Researchers at Rutgers University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University, and Cornell University are teaming up to examine how...
Study points to strategies for closing the participation gender gap in engineering courses
Students’ identities can play a key role in how comfortable they feel and how often they speak up in the...
How sugar promotes inflammation
People who consume sugar and other carbohydrates in excess over a long period of time have an increased risk of...
New tool to accelerate drug discovery
Inside your body on the surface of cell membranes, a metaphorical communication and traffic network is underway as hormones -...
Neal Copeland and Nancy Jenkins elected Fellows of the AACR Academy
HOUSTON ― Neal G. Copeland, Ph.D., and Nancy A. Jenkins, Ph.D., both professors of Genetics at The University of Texas MD...
Scientists characterize fertilizer uptake by maize in unprecedented detail, opening doors to improved yields
Maize, or corn, is cultivated globally, as food, feedstock, and biofuel source, and is one of the most widely produced...
WVU research suggests interrupting immune response improves multiple sclerosis outcomes
A human immune system is a lot like the board game Mouse Trap: it’s a Rube Goldberg system of interacting...
New clues about how a high-salt diet contributes to cardiometabolic diseases found deep in the brain
AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 22, 2022) – Deep in the brain a group of large neurons produce a hormone which prompts our...
An improved ink for colon tattoos
SAN DIEGO, March 22, 2022 — The colon might be the last place people would consider getting a tattoo, but...
Striking lane-like patterns found in bacteria populations
It’s well understood that populations of species don’t distribute at random. Rather, as populations grow, individuals are organized around barriers...
New video explains why stillbirth is not the mother’s fault
Researchers and artists from the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) and the University of Newcastle have collaborated to create a...
Nature study: Ocean life may adapt to climate change, but with hidden costs
Suppose that we could watch twenty generations of whales or sharks adapting to climate change—measuring how they evolve and how...
Treating brain cancer with drug previously used on canines
The National Institutes of Health is awarding a $3.8 million grant to John Rossmeisl, the Dr. and Mrs. Dorsey Taylor...
Appetite genes control how children grow
Have you ever wondered why it is so different how quickly and how much small babies put on weight during...
The impact of extinction
While the popular Netflix movie "Don’t Look Up" has raised public consciousness to the potential catastrophic effects of asteroid impact...
To detect Alzheimer’s earlier, research to map the brain
A University of Texas at Arlington computer science and engineering assistant professor has received a National Institutes of Health grant...
Journal of Hepatology COVID-19 news brief
Amsterdam, March 21, 2022 – Patients with liver disease are particularly vulnerable to the impact of COVID-19. The Journal of...
Ape ‘vocabularies’ shaped by social mingling — like in humans
Social mingling shapes and transforms the ‘vocabularies’ of apes, just like in humans, according to new research led by the...
