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Eating with your eyes: Virtual reality can alter taste
ITHACA, N.Y. - Humans not only relish the sweet, savory and saltiness of foods, but they are influenced by the...
HIV-positive infants are at high risk for acquiring congenital cytomegalovirus infection
UCLA RESEARCH ALERT Enrique Rivero FINDINGS Infants born to HIV-positive mothers had high rates of congenital cytomegalovirus, or CMV. Infants...
An RNA key that unlocks innate immunity
RNA has long been the neglected middle child of biomolecules, the go-between between DNA, which encodes the cell's instructions, and...
A new mechanism for how animal cells stay intact
Credit: Manu Prakash Almost eight years ago, Stanford University bioengineer Manu Prakash was looking for a way to watch every...
Did mosasaurs hunt like killer whales?
Credit: Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative Services Did prehistoric sea creatures called mosasaurs subdue prey by ramming them with their bony...
Goldilocks principle in biology — fine-tuning the ‘just right’ signal load
Credit: Kasper Røjkjær Andersen, Simon Kelly and Simona Radutoiu. In the fairy tale "Goldilock and the Three Bears", the girl...
Tropical moths in the mountains are larger
Credit: (Photo: Gunnar Brehm/FSU Jena) Jena, Germany (12.10.18) Researchers from three universities have measured more than 19,000 tropical moths from...
Quantifying evolutionary impacts of humans on the biosphere is harder than it seems
Credit: Andrew Hendry Are human disturbances to the environment driving evolutionary changes in animals and plants? A new study conducted...
Calm the immune system, halt premature birth
Premature birth is the leading cause of infant death and disability in the U.S., and costs billions in dollars and...
Classifying microbes differently leads to discovery
Changing the way microbes are classified can reveal similarities among mammals' gut microbiomes, according to a new study. The study,...
Is the next big step in cancer therapy personalized vaccines?
Credit: UC San Diego Health Tamara Strauss has been living with high-grade, stage IV pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer for more than...
Cancer stem cells use normal genes in abnormal ways
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center CDK1 is a "normal" protein - its presence drives cells through the cycle of...
Innovative tool allows continental-scale water, energy, and land system modeling
A new large-scale hydroeconomic model, developed by the Water Program at IIASA, will allow researchers to study water systems across...
Liver-on-a-chip, the ideal test environment for CRISPR
Credit: Marco-Alexis Chaira Tempe, Ariz. - Two Arizona State University professors are among the first recipients of Somatic Cell Genome...
Irrigating vegetables with wastewater in African cities may spread disease
Urban farmers growing vegetables to feed millions of people in Africa's ever-growing cities could unwittingly be helping to spread disease...
NIH programs shed light on gene variants and their connections to health and disease
Programs supported by the National Institutes of Health are establishing which genes and genomic variants play a role in human...
How the grid cell system of the brain maps mental spaces
It has long been known that so-called place cells in the human hippocampus are responsible for coding one's position in...
Does climate vary more from century to century when it is warmer?
Century-scale climate variability was enhanced when the Earth was warmer during the Last Interglacial period (129-116 thousand years ago) compared...
Understanding the neurological code behind how flies fly
Credit: Alexandra Yarger, Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND--A common flesh fly takes off and maneuvers effortlessly, its head and body...
He’s in a rush, she isn’t: Reproductive strategy drives slower female aging
Credit: Karin Söderlund Leifler/Linköping University The aging of males and females is influenced by how they choose to invest their...
