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Drought response in global crops may be as complex as day and night
Credit: David Hirsch Researchers have identified a set of genes that help control early drought response in a popular global...
Electrical nerve-block research aims at asthma, heart failure
Biomedical engineering researchers at Case Western Reserve University are refining more than 15 years of work on an electrical nerve-block...
Say hello to the 3-D Obama ant
Credit: Zookeys Journal Biologists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have named three new, rare...
The eyes have it
Our bodies, with all their different features and variations, are the result of well-orchestrated processes that dictate what and how...
Researchers discover new immunotherapy combination effective at killing cancer cells
Credit: Photos provided by Doug Mahoney's lab Immunotherapy is an emerging field in the global fight against cancer, even though...
Using DNA to predict schizophrenia and autism
Credit: Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) Huntington's disease, cystic fibrosis, and muscular dystrophy are all diseases that can be traced to...
New osteoporosis treatment uses traditional Chinese herb to prevent bone loss
An herb widely used in traditional Chinese medicine might hold the key to a new osteoporosis therapy that could prevent...
Extreme exposure
Although common opinion holds that exposure to pesticides increases adverse birth outcomes, the existing body of scientific evidence is ambiguous....
Bahamian songbirds disappeared during last glacial-interglacial transition
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- Two species of songbirds that once made a home in the Bahamas likely...
Faulty DNA repair depresses neural development
Credit: Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) DNA is the computer code that programs every event in the body. Despite the importance...
Gunnerus Prize in Sustainability awarded to Carl Folke
Credit: M. Axelsson/Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre Professor Carl Folke has been awarded the 2017 Gunnerus Award in Sustainability Science...
Non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma treatment
India is a second largest producer of leather, and being so, leather production and dyeing significantly contribute to pollution of...
A milestone in aquatic toxicology
Researchers at the US Environmental Protection Agency and the University of Minnesota - Crookston marked a significant milestone in the...
Weightlessness affects health of cosmonauts at molecular level
Credit: MIPT's Press Office A team of scientists from Russia and Canada has analyzed the effect of space conditions on...
New mini tool has massive implications
Credit: Jaren Wilkey/BYU Brigham Young University researchers have created a miniaturized, portable version of a tool now capable of analyzing...
New treatment options for type 2 diabetes
Credit: Dr Resia Pretorius, Stellenbosch University Bacteria may be responsible for more than we suspect. Especially when it comes to...
Doping in sports: Official tests fail to pick up majority of cases
Doping is remarkably widespread among elite athletes, and remains largely unchecked despite the use of sophisticated biological testing methods. This...
UMass Amherst biochemists simulate a protein-folding chaperone’s functional dance
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Using a combination of computational and experimental techniques, a research team at the University...
Scientists map genomic atlas of your inner fish gut
Credit: Colin Lickwar DURHAM, N.C. -- Scientists have discovered a network of genes and genetic regulatory elements in the lining...
A new estimate of biodiversity on Earth
Credit: Brendan B. Larsen, Elizabeth C. Miller, Matthew K. Rhodes, and John J. Wiens Anyone who has studied biology, watched...
