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Artificial muscles, tendons would make prosthetic limbs more lifelike
Credit: University of Houston An engineer from the University of Houston has received a $500,000 CAREER award from the National...
Echo templates aid mental mapping in bats
Credit: Vanderelst et al., eLife, 2016 A study published in eLife provides new insights on how bats recognise their surroundings...
Bioreactors ready for the big time
Credit: Brandon C. Goeller, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. URBANA, Ill. – Last summer, the Gulf of Mexico's "dead...
The Red Queen rules
Leave it to evolutionary biologists to name a theory from a line in Alice in Wonderland. In Lewis Carroll's book...
Nature gem within the city: What grows in the biodiversity-rich Bukit Nanas Forest Reserve
Credit: Imin Kamin Established as early as 1900, Bukit Nanas Forest Reserve (BNFR) is the oldest of its kind in...
Socially meaningful sounds can change ear, improve hearing, study…
ATLANTA–Hearing socially meaningful sounds can change the ear and enable it to better detect those sounds, according to researchers at...
Electron microscopy uncovers unexpected connections in fruit fly brain
Credit: Eichler et al., Janelia Research Campus What was once thought to be a done-and-dusted map of the fruit fly...
Almonds may help boost cholesterol clean-up crew
Credit: Patrick Mansell Eating almonds on a regular basis may help boost levels of HDL cholesterol while simultaneously improving the...
Sanford Burnham Prebys and Mayo Clinic collaborators awarded multi-year NIH grant
Credit: SBP Orlando, FL, Aug. 10, 2017 - A team of researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP)...
CAS scientists discover BCAS2 involved in alternative mRNA splicing in spermatogonia and…
Credit: LI Lei Alternative splicing significantly expands the form and function of the genome of organisms with limited gene number...
UC Riverside molecular biochemist named to German National Academy of…
Credit: IIGB, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Katayoon Dehesh, the director of the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB) and...
Study in early stage breast cancer shows that even small tumors can be aggressive
LUGANO-MADRID, Sept. 3, 2017 – Even small tumours can be aggressive, according to a study in patients with early stage...
St. Jude researchers reveal how 2 types of immune cells can arise from…
Credit: Katherine Verbist, Ph.D., St. Jude The fates of immune cells can be decided at the initial division of a...
Temporary disconnects shed light on long-term brain dysfunction
Will we ever be able to understand the cacophonous chatter taking place between the 80 million neurons in our brains?...
Individuality drives collective behavior of schooling fish
Credit: Jolle W. Jolles New research sheds light on how “animal personalities” – inter-individual differences in animal behaviour – can...
Eating habits affect skin’s protection against sun
Credit: Knight Cancer Institute DALLAS – Aug. 15, 2017 - Sunbathers may want to avoid midnight snacks before catching some...
Novel technologies reveal key information about depleted east pacific green sea turtles
Credit: Cali Turner Tomaszewicz Populations of green sea turtles living in the eastern region of the Pacific Ocean have rebounded...
New toolkit reveals novel cancer genes
A new statistical model has enabled researchers to pinpoint 27 novel genes thought to prevent cancer from forming, in an...
Heritage and ancient grain project feeds a growing demand
Credit: June Russell, GrowNYC's Greenmarket Program ITHACA, N.Y. – After a century of markets dominated by a few types of...
Novel small antibody fragment: A valuable tool in crystallography
Credit: Osaka University Osaka – Antibodies are a powerful weapon system in defending our body against invaders such as bacteria...
