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A virus lethal to amphibians is spreading across Portugal
Credit: Gonçalo M. Rosa A new strain of ranavirus is currently causing mass mortality in several species of amphibian in...
Scientists reveal new and improved genome sequence of Daphnia pulex
Credit: Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame For many, experience with Daphnia, commonly known as water fleas, ends in high school....
The first urban park butterfly study in HK: HKU ecologists reveal…
Credit: The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong is home to a dazzling diversity of over 250 butterfly species, many...
Why are Australia’s shrublands like ‘knee-high tropical rainforests’?
Credit: Etienne Laliberté MONTREAL, Jan. 12, 2017 – Some of the Earth's ecosystems host a disproportionately high number of plant...
St. Jude researchers pinpoint key influenza-fighting immune trigger
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Peter Barta St. Jude Children's Research Hospital immunologists have identified the protein trigger...
UTEP team advances in developing vaccine for cutaneous leishmaniasis
Credit: J.R. Hernandez/UTEP Communications A research team at The University of Texas at El Paso is one step closer to...
Hot spots of marine biodiversity most severely impacted by global warming
Credit: F. Ramírez, I. Afán, L. S. Davis and A. Chiaradia A new study aimed at identifying areas of highest...
New findings detail structure of immature Zika virus
Credit: (Purdue University image courtesy of Kuhn and Rossmann research groups) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers at Purdue University have...
Antibiotics warranted for kids with minor staph infections
Credit: Washington University School of Medicine The overuse of antibiotics has left some doctors questioning whether to give such drugs...
3-D footage of nematode brains links neurons with motion and behavior
Princeton University researchers have captured among the first recordings of neural activity in nearly the entire brain of a free-moving...
Study finds testosterone supplementation reduces heart attack risk in…
A new multi-year study from the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City shows that testosterone therapy helped...
New book on The Cytoskeleton from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: The specimen was prepared and imaged by Rosmarie Suetterlin and Cora-Ann Schoenenberger at the Maurice E. Muller Institute for...
Model helps identify drugs to treat cat eye infections
It's a problem veterinarians see all the time, but there are few treatments. Feline herpes virus 1 (FHV-1) is a...
Andalusian scientists reconstruct what the Gibraltar Arc was like 9 million years ago
Credit: NASA A team of Andalusian scientists, led by the University of Granada (UGR), has been able to reconstruct for...
Interactions between simple molecular mechanisms give rise to complex…
Credit: IST Austria/Maroš Pleška When we think of bacteria, images of nasty infections like pneumonia, meningitis or food poisoning come...
Medical imaging innovator Christine Hendon wins Presidential honor
Credit: Jeffrey Schifman/Columbia Engineering Christine Hendon, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has won the Presidential Early Career...
Study reverses thinking on genetic links to stress, depression
Credit: Washington University BioMed Radio New research findings often garner great attention. But when other scientists follow up and fail...
Researchers use mouse model to study craniofacial disorders
KANSAS CITY, MO — Researchers from the laboratory of Paul Trainor, Ph.D., at the Stowers Institute of Medical Research have...
The bacterial community on the International Space Station resembles homes
Credit: This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. Microbiologists...
Scientists reveal new and improved genome sequence of Daphnia pulex
Credit: Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame For many, experience with Daphnia, commonly known as water fleas, ends in high school....
