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Finnish researchers discover what is on the menu for dragonflies
Credit: Tuomas Kankaanpää Researchers from the Universities of Turku and Helsinki, Finland, are the first in the world to discover...
Neuroscientists find ‘gatekeeper’ in itching sensations plays no role in pain transmission
Credit: North Carolina State University A study from North Carolina State University researchers shows that a neurotransmitter involved in relaying...
New portable blood analyzer could improve anemia detection worldwide
Credit: Nikita Taparia, University of Washington WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 3, 2017 -- About one quarter of the world's population suffers...
House sparrow decline linked to air pollution and poor diet
Despite being well-adapted to urban life, house sparrow numbers are falling. A study in open-access journal Frontiers in Ecology and...
Large volcanic eruptions in Tropics can trigger El Niño events
(Rutgers University) Explosive volcanic eruptions in the tropics can lead to El Niño events, those notorious warming periods in the...
NIH researchers uncover drain pipes in our brains
(NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) By scanning the brains of healthy volunteers, researchers at the National Institutes of...
Oregon study finds that microbial dispersal impacts animal guts
EUGENE, Ore. -- Oct. 3, 2017 -- In a special experiment, zebrafish with defective immune systems swam and dined with...
Tiny protein offers major insight into foot-and-mouth virus
Scientists have identified that a tiny protein, which plays a major role in the replication of foot-and-mouth disease virus, demonstrates...
Follow the fossils, find the answers
Credit: Authors: Sankar Chatterjee, Christopher R. Scotese, and Sunil Bajpai and The Geological Society of America Boulder, Colo., USA: The...
Red Sea gene pool follows water flow
Credit: © 2017 Ibrahim Hoteit A collaboration between KAUST and several UK institutes has revealed that surface currents are important...
Does the titanium dioxide in food and nanomaterials affect the gut microbiome?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Oct. 3, 2017 -- A new study has shown that the...
Gabapentin co-use may increase risk of fatal opioid overdose
Co-prescription of the anticonvulsant gabapentin is associated with an increased risk of opioid-related death in people who are prescribed opioid...
Ancient petrified salamander reveals its last meal
Credit: Jérémy Tissier A new study on an exceptionally preserved salamander from the Eocene of France reveals that its soft...
To breed or not to breed? Migratory female butterflies face a monsoonal dilemma
Credit: Dr. Krushnamegh Kunte, NCBS-TIFR What do CPUs, stockbrokers, and butterflies have in common? They are good at investing their...
‘Ideal biomarker’ detects Alzheimer’s disease before the onset of symptoms
Credit: prostem.eu Croatia, New Mexico (October, 2017): Absence of a prefrontal activation during sensory gating of simple tones detects the...
Ammonia emissions unlikely to be causing extreme China haze
Credit: Georgia Tech As China struggles to find ways to remedy the noxious haze that lingers over Beijing and other...
Livestock grazing harming giant panda habitat
Credit: Binbin Li DURHAM, N.C. -- Increased livestock grazing in China's Wanglang National Nature Preserve has damaged one third of...
New information on a major player in chronic visceral leishmaniasis
In an article in the latest issue of Plos Pathogens, INRS professor Simona Stäger and her team show how the...
Cell signals that trigger wound healing are surprisingly complex
Credit: Michael Todd, Vanderbilt University In a sharp and pointy world, wound healing is a critical and marvelous process. Despite...
‘CRISPR-Gold’ fixes Duchenne muscular dystrophy mutation in mice
Credit: Murthy/Conboy/Nature Biomedical Engineering Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have engineered a new way to deliver CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing...
