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Just how blind are bats? Color vision gene study examines key sensory tradeoffs
Credit: Emma Teeling Could bats' cave-dwelling nocturnal habits over eons enhanced their echolocation acoustic abilities, but also spurred their loss...
UMBC researchers develop new method to address deep-seated biases in science
New UMBC research is helping dismantle gender and publication biases in science. A team of researchers working across disciplines has...
Letting nature take its course: Wolves in Yellowstone National Park
Since the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995, the park's ecosystem has become a deeply complex and...
Sex or food? Decision-making in single-cell organisms
Credit: Karen Grace Bondoc, FSU Jena Unicellular diatoms are able to adapt their behavior to different external stimuli based on...
The science of sustainability
Credit: Uruma City, Japan © Ryo Yoshitake The U.S. city of Louisville, Kentucky isn't known as a hotbed of environmental...
New scholars named by program to promote research into the influence of gender on health
Traditionally many health-related research projects focused only on males, assuming that females' bodies would respond the same way to a...
Multidisciplinary team to develop stem cell-based approaches to restore vision
A team from the University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and University of Wisconsin--Madison are launching a project to...
Keeping food out of landfills
Credit: Kathy F. Atkinson You probably throw out more food than you realize. Food waste makes up 21.6 percent of...
A bad influence: the interplay between tumor cells and immune cells
Credit: Trudy Oliver Lab Research at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) yielded new...
Algorithmic innovation may help reduce invasive heart procedures
Credit: Abhejit Rajagopal WASHINGTON, D.C., October 16, 2018 -- Doctors use invasive procedures to map the hearts of patients suffering...
True sanctuary
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- When they first set out to follow grey reef sharks around the Republic of the Marshall...
Drink (alcohol-free) beer and live for a hundred years
Ingredients in beer are claimed to combat inflammation and obesity? Researchers working with Prof. Dr. Claus Hellerbrand at the Institute...
Forest carbon stocks have been overestimated for 50 years
Credit: © CIRAD, G. Vieilledent It may be a small correction, but it is far from negligible as far as...
Team envisions future of the American road with new NSF planning grant
Credit: Anil Misra LAWRENCE -- Headquartered at the University of Kansas School of Engineering, a research team is envisioning what...
Public opinion on GMOs might impact similar technologies in stores
Credit: Missouri School of Journalism COLUMBIA, Mo. -If an individual is skeptical about the safety of genetically modified foods, chances...
Age-related increase in estrogen may cause common men’s hernia
Increased estrogen level in mice weakens abdominal wall to cause hernia Inguinal hernia repair is most common surgery in men...
New findings cast light on lymphatic system, key player in human health
Credit: OMRF Scientists at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation have broken new ground in understanding how the lymphatic system works,...
This RNA-based technique could make gene therapy more effective
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Delivering functional genes into cells to replace mutated genes, an approach known as gene therapy, holds potential...
Artificial intelligence used in clinical practice to measure breast density
Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. - An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm measures breast density at the...
How communication among cells affects development of multicellular tissue
Credit: Chad Glen, Georgia Tech Using a combination of computational modeling and experimental techniques, a research team has developed new...
