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Microbes rule in ‘knee-high tropical rainforests’
Credit: Francois Teste Rainforests on infertile wet soils support more than half of all plant species. Shrublands on infertile dry...
There’s no one-size-fits-all solution to climate change
Credit: © Ashwin Ravikumar, The Field Museum. The world's forests are crucial to slowing climate change, but they're often destroyed...
Tiny plants with huge potential
Credit: Photo: Jan-Peter Kasper/FSU Jena Jena (Germany) Wolffia globosa, a tiny, rootless duckweed, or water lens, apparently has what it...
BBSRC BRAVO: Optimizing the performance of Brassica crops
(John Innes Centre) A new five-year project BBSRC Brassica, Rapeseed and Vegetable Optimisation (BRAVO), will receive funding from the Biotechnology...
Can we produce a better wheat crop to feed the world? Single to multiple wheat genomics
Credit: Pixabay Entering a 'wheat pan-genomics' era from single to multiple wheat DNA references, the Earlham Institute (EI) aims to...
This bay in Scandinavia has world record in carbon storing
Credit: colorbox Forests are potent carbon sinks, but also the oceans' seagrasses can store enormous amounts of carbon. A little...
Conservation practices may leave African indigenous populations behind
Conservation and logging groups in Central and West Africa are failing to fully incorporate local concerns into management, marginalizing the...
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...
Protecting the Ocean
Credit: Elena Zhukova for UCOP UC Santa Barbara marine biologist and conservation ecologist Benjamin Halpern is among 10 recipients of...
Ocean acidification to hit West Coast Dungeness crab fishery, new assessment shows
Credit: Su Kim/Northwest Fisheries Science Center The acidification of the ocean expected as seawater absorbs increasing amounts of carbon dioxide...
Profitable coral reef fisheries require light fishing
Credit: Emily Darling / WCS New York (January 12, 2017) - Fishing is fundamentally altering the food chain in coral...
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation grants prestigious fellowship, Breakthrough Scientist Awards
New York, NY (Jan. 12, 2017) - The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on supporting innovative...
Columbia, NewYork-Presbyterian and non-profit Life Raft Group form cancer partnership
New York, NY & Wayne, NJ (January 12, 2017)--Columbia University Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian and the Life Raft Group (LRG), a...
For men with prostate cancer, emotional distress may lead to more aggressive treatment
Credit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. - The anxiety many men experience after being diagnosed with prostate cancer may lead...
Huntsman Cancer Institute research holds promise for personalized lung cancer treatments
SALT LAKE CITY - New research from scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah uncovered distinct...
Markers for prostate cancer death can identify men in need of more aggressive treatment
Boston, MA -- Prostate cancer (PC) is the second leading cause of male cancer death in the United States with...
Melanoma mutation likes fat for fuel
Cancer cells love glucose, the simple sugar the body uses for energy, so a high-fat, low-carb diet should starve them,...
Seeing vape pen in use boosts desire to smoke among young adults
Although they look less like cigarettes than first-generation e-cigarettes, a new study found that the newer generation e-cigarette vape pens...
Reef fish that conquer fear of sharks may help control excess algae
Loading video... Credit: Mike Gil/UC Davis If there was a top-rated restaurant in a dangerous part of the city, chances...
Diagnostic breakthrough: ‘Shaking piglets’ attributed to previously unidentified virus
Credit: Michael Bernkopf/Vetmeduni Vienna Cases of newborn "shaking piglets" have been reported since the 1920s both in Europe and abroad....
