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Brazil’s environmental licensing under threat
In a paper published in Science this week, Philip M. Fearnside of Brazil's National Institute for Research in Amazonia (INPA)...
Incredible images reveal bacteria motor parts in unprecedented detail
Many bacteria swim using flagella – long tails that are attached to tiny motors made of proteins, just tens of...
Evidence-based action for a competitive, green and trusted European…
Credit: EU, 2017 Today the European Commission introduces a package of measures seeking to reconcile the ambition of world-leading environmental...
Study highlights new link between gene fusion and bladder and brain…
Credit: University of Warwick Previously overlooked section of fusion found to worsen cancer cells Scientists finds section acts like a...
UC biologist looks at butterflies to help solve human infertility
Credit: Nathan Morehouse When insects skip the light fandango their romantic foreplay often involves some pretty crazy things like hypnotic...
Australian study uses new technique to challenge brain development hypothesis
Credit: Courtesy Dr. Vera Weisbecker A new study involving The University of Queensland, which might be useful for biomedical research,...
Study finds shark fins & meat contain high levels of neurotoxins…
Credit: Photo: Neil Hammerschlag, Ph.D. Graphics: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine MIAMI–In a new study, University of Miami...
Warbler genomes look to be 99.97 percent alike
For decades, conservationists have considered blue-winged warblers to be a threat to golden-winged warblers, a species being considered for federal...
Sticking sugar to protein
Credit: Julia Kowal / ETH Zurich Whenever cells receive signals, interact with other cells or identify viruses and bacteria, the...
Tufts University nutrition scientists provide updated MyPlate for…
BOSTON (March 7, 2016)–Nutrition scientists at the Jean Mayer U. S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging...
Most complex nanoparticle crystal ever made by design
Credit: Credit: Glotzer Group, University of Michigan. Copyright: Science EVANSTON, Ill. — The most complex crystal designed and built from...
Sticking sugar to protein
Credit: Julia Kowal / ETH Zurich Whenever cells receive signals, interact with other cells or identify viruses and bacteria, the...
Biologists taught infusoria to fight poisons
Credit: Anatoliy Inozemtsev A team of scientists from the Faculty of Biology of Lomonosov Moscow State University and Laboratory of...
Wood frogs research clarifies risks posed to animals by warming climate
Credit: Staci Amburgey, Penn State As conditions warm, fish and wildlife living at the southern edge of their species' ranges...
Unveiling the biology behind nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Credit: Sokrates Stein/EPFL EPFL scientists have discovered a new biological mechanism behind nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease...
Food webs entangle humans in complex relationships with animals, crops and the environment
Credit: Stefani Crabtree, Penn State Reconstructed food webs from the Ancestral Puebloan southwestern United States show the complexity and interconnectedness...
Targeted conservation could protect more of Earth’s biodiversity
Credit: Yale University/University of Grenoble New Haven, Conn. – A new study finds that major gains in global biodiversity can...
Tiny cellular antennae key to fat formation in muscle
Credit: Daniel Kopinke Like it or not, as we age, our muscle cells are slowly exchanged, one by one, for...
Sticking sugar to protein
Credit: Julia Kowal / ETH Zurich Whenever cells receive signals, interact with other cells or identify viruses and bacteria, the...
UT Southwestern finds protein function that could lead to ways to prevent stroke damage
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Oct. 6, 2016 – One particular protein is the final executioner of events...
