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The Western Ghats of India revealed two new primitive species of earthworm
Credit: Dr S Prasanth Narayanan The Western Ghats mountains lie at the southwestern continental margin of Peninsular India and extend...
Allergies: Cross-reactivity between cypress pollen and peaches/citrus fruits explained
Credit: Youcef Shahali / Colorization Jean-Marc Panaud, Institut Pasteur Working in collaboration with teams from the Czech Republic and Japan,...
Histone 1, the guardian of genome stability
Credit: Jordi Bernués, IRB Barcelona. Scientists headed by Ferran Azorín, CSIC research professor and head of the Chromatin Structure and...
Right kind of collaboration is key to solving environmental problems
Credit: Andreas Altenburger/Mostphotos The coming decade may determine whether humanity will set a course toward a more socially and ecologically...
Organ crosstalk: Fatty liver can cause damage to other organs
Credit: © IDM Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is becoming more and more common. Approximately every third adult in the industrialized...
CAS scientists make autism advance using monkey model
Autism is a common neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired social communication, and restricted and repetitive behavior or interests. The reported...
A map of the cell’s power station
Credit: Source: AG Meisinger Mitochondria are the cell's power stations; they transform the energy stored in nutrients so that cells...
Gene variant activity is surprisingly variable between tissues
Credit: Lip Comarella (Vienna, August 17, 2017) Every gene in (almost) every cell of the body is present in two...
Researchers discover new chemical process that could reduce nitrogen oxides from diesel exhaust
Credit: University of Notre Dame/Barbara Johnson Chemical engineers at the University of Notre Dame have discovered a catalytic process that...
Virus with an eggshell
Avian flu can be transmitted from birds to humans; transmission among humans, however, is limited. The reason may be an...
Smart computers
Credit: Photo: Michael Veit Filtering information for search engines, acting as an opponent during a board game or recognizing images:...
Paper: Clinical signs best predictors of mortality in critically ill calves
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Clinical signs such as gastrointestinal problems or septic arthritis may be...
GIST tumors linked to NF1 mutations, genetic testing needed
Researchers at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, with colleagues from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Fox Chase Cancer...
GA4GH 5th Plenary Meeting
Francis Collins, Director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Harold Varmus, former Director of the NIH and...
New study rebuts the claim that antidepressants do not work
Credit: Photo by Johan Wingborg, University of Gothenburg. A theory that has gained considerable attention in international media, including Newsweek...
Mechanisms explaining positional diversity of the hindlimb in tetrapod evolution
Credit: Takayuki Suzuki Nagoya, Japan - In the evolution of tetrapods, the position of the hindlimb has diversified along with...
The power of perovskite
Credit: OIST Originally a mineral, the perovskite used in today's technology is quite different from the rock found in the...
How whip-like cell appendages promote bodily fluid flow
Credit: Maki Takagishi Nagoya, Japan - Some cells in the body contain long thin structures called cilia on their surface,...
Gold nanostars and immunotherapy vaccinate mice against cancer
Credit: Tuan Vo-Dinh, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- By combining an FDA-approved cancer immunotherapy with an emerging tumor-roasting nanotechnology, Duke...
New Pathology Atlas maps genes in cancer to accelerate progress in personalized medicine
Credit: Human Protein Atlas A new Pathology Atlas is launched today with an analysis of all human genes in all...
