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How tails help geckos and other vertebrates make great strides
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A wagging tail is often associated with dogs' emotions, but the side-to-side motion may...
New method for producing malaria treatment at large scales
Compared to smallpox or typhoid, malaria is proving one of the most challenging human diseases to eradicate - and so...
Cilia: ‘The bouncer’ of bacteria
Credit: Lab of Margaret McFall-Ngai, Pacific Biosciences Research Center at the University of Hawaii Imagine a club scene--a bouncer at...
What role do genome variations play in tuberculosis?
Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In 2016, this was the most common causative pathogen for death by infectious diseases....
Chinese FDA and IIVS re-affirm their collaboration for non-animal tests
GAITHERSBURG, MD - Sept. 7, 2017 - Bo Li, Director General Director of the CFDA's National Institute for Food and...
UT Austin study raises question: Why are fossilized hairs so rare?
Credit: Image modified from Eliason et al. (2017) PRSB. When most people hear the word fossil, they probably think of...
Using antidepressants during pregnancy may affect your child’s mental health
Credit: Lise Balsby The use of antidepressants has been on the rise for many years. Between 2 and 8% of...
Discovery of chromosome motor supports DNA loop extrusion
It is one of the great mysteries in biology: how does a cell neatly distribute its replicated DNA between two...
Monarch butterflies disappearing from western North America
Credit: Candace Fallon VANCOUVER, Wash. - Monarch butterfly populations from western North America have declined far more dramatically than was...
Researchers break through the wall in bacterial membrane vesicle research
Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan--Many bacteria release membrane vesicles, which are nanoscale spheres consisting of a cellular membrane containing...
Healthy aging: New EU project on the human liver
Credit: Photo: Bielefeld University The goal is to find out how medical drugs affect the liver and how the organ...
Researchers develop 3-D-printed biomaterials that degrade on demand
Credit: Wong Lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Brown University engineers have demonstrated a technique for making 3-D-printed biomaterials...
CWRU researcher receives NIH grant to expand countermeasures against chemical threats
Kurt Lu, MD, assistant professor of dermatology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has received a five year,...
Australian Magpie ‘dunks’ its food before eating, researchers find
Scientists at the University of York, in collaboration with researchers at Western Sydney University, have shown that the Australian Magpie...
Antibody-biogel partnership can be stronger defense than previously thought, study proves
(Chapel Hill, N.C. -- Sept. 7, 2017) -- Strong molecular bonds between antibodies and biological gels, like mucus, aren't necessary...
New porcelain crab species from Colombia named
Credit: Credit: Alexandra Hiller Despite their names, hermit crabs, king crabs and horseshoe crabs are not true crabs. Neither are...
New research disputes claims that climate change helped spark the Syrian civil war
A new study, published today in the journal Political Geography, shows that there is no sound evidence that global climate...
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...
Novo Biosciences receives federal grant to advance potential heart drug
Credit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE - Novo Biosciences Inc., a spinoff of the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar...
Paint by numbers
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München have developed a new...
