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Quantifying lower limb muscle weakness in Osteogenesis Imperfecta type IV
Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) is a heritable disorder characterized by increased bone fragility. In OI Type IV muscle weakness has important...
Longer-lasting fragrance is just a shampoo away, thanks to peptides
Many people select their shampoo based on smell. Unfortunately, that scent usually doesn't last long on hair. Now, one team...
Diffusion dynamics play an essential role in regulating stem cells and tissue development
Gradients of molecular signaling factors play an essential role in numerous events in embryonic development, from patterning limb and organ...
A new bird which humans drove to extinction discovered in Azores
Credit: Pau Oliver Inside the crater of a volcano on Graciosa Island in the Azores archipelago, in the Atlantic Ocean,...
Identifying major transitions in human cultural evolution
Credit: Map taken from https://d-place.org Over the past 10,000 years human cultures have expanded from small groups of hunter-gatherers to...
Large-mouthed fish was top predator after mass extinction
Credit: Artwork: Nadine Bösch The most catastrophic mass extinction on Earth took place about 252 million years ago - at...
Research at Lake Baikal — for the protection of a unique ecosystem
Credit: V. Pavlichenko, ISU Lake Baikal formed between 25 and 30 million years ago and contains around 20 per cent...
Drug combination shows better tolerance and effectiveness in metastatic renal cell cancer
LEBANON, N.H. - A new cooperative research study including Norris Cotton Cancer Center's Lionel Lewis, MB BCh, MD, finds that...
User research at BER II: Lupin roots observed in the act of drinking
Credit: Created by Christian Tötzke © University of Potsdam Soil scientists led by Prof. Sascha Oswald from the University of...
Studies help understand why some people are so sure they’re right
Dogmatic individuals hold confidently to their beliefs, even when experts disagree and evidence contradicts them. New research from Case Western...
Experts win support to tackle rising threat of antibiotic resistance
A team of scientists are to pool their expertise to tackle one of the biggest health challenges facing society -...
Humans identify emotions in the voices of all air-breathing vertebrates
Amphibians, reptiles, mammals -- all of them communicate via acoustic signals. And humans are able to assess the emotional value...
The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2017 Annual Meeting
The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), an American Institute of Biological Sciences member society, fosters research, education, public...
Do we need separate his and hers medicine cabinets?
Credit: Photo: Jan-Peter Kasper/FSU Jena (Jena, Germany) Perhaps you have come across the titles 'Men are from Mars, women are...
UAlberta and McGill scientists uncover a hidden calcium cholesterol connection
Credit: Melissa Fabrizio (Edmonton) It's well known that calcium is essential for strong bones and teeth, but new research shows...
NUS scientists identify optimal areas for conservation and agriculture in the tropics
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has recently completed a global study on the trade-offs...
A hybrid material to spot organic contaminants in the atmosphere
The development of hybrid materials is an emerging field in materials science. As the researcher explained, the interest in these...
Atlantic/Pacific ocean temperature difference fuels US wildfires
Credit: Chikamoto Y. et al. An international team of climate researchers from the US, South Korea and the UK has...
Investigation tests new methods of water recycling in space
Credit: NASA Sometimes the best solution to a complex problem is the simplest one. That's the approach that the Capillary...
Novel thermal ablation system for transdermal drug delivery
Credit: Professor Takuro Niidome Many diseases are treated with protein-based drugs. However, due to the size of the molecules, the...
