Biology
Stormwater ponds not a major source of greenhouse gas emissions
Credit: Jim Heffernan, Duke Univ. DURHAM, N.C. - Stormwater retention ponds, a ubiquitous feature in developed landscapes worldwide, are not...
Charcoal: Major missing piece in the global carbon cycle
Credit: Gabriela Santilli, ETH Zürich Most of the carbon resulting from wildfires and fossil fuel combustion is rapidly released into...
Oil rigs may end their days as valuable artificial reefs
Credit: Photo: C. Kuyvenhoven. A large group of international researchers have just published a scientific article in which they encourage...
Sleeping sickness: Pathogens camouflage themselves with sugar
It has long been known that the pathogens causing sleeping sickness evade the immune system by exchanging their surface proteins....
What natural greenhouse gases from wetlands and permafrosts mean for Paris Agreement goals
Credit: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Global fossil fuel emissions would have to be reduced by as much as 20%...
Long term use of some pesticides is killing off dung beetle populations
New research led by scientists at the University of Bristol has uncovered that long-term use of some pesticides to treat...
Research confirms a new way for cells to conserve energy
By proving a theory that was first proposed almost 40 years ago, researchers have confirmed a new way that cells...
The sea anemone, an animal that hides its complexity well
Credit: © Institut Pasteur Despite its apparent simplicity - a tube-like body topped with tentacles -, the sea anemone is...
New insights on mosquitoes that spread disease
Credit: Photo credit: Mikel Bengoa The Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) is a highly invasive species and a vector of...
Certain antibodies against a sugar are associated with malaria protection
Credit: Adapted from Aguilar R et al. 2018 Certain type of antibodies against α-Gal- a carbohydrate expressed by many organisms...
Gene-editing technique cures genetic disorder in utero
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University have for the first time used a gene editing technique to successfully...
Visual perceptual skills are updated by process similar to memory reconsolidation, study finds
Credit: Jolygon PROVIDENCE, R.I. --A new study shows that updating visual perceptual skills -- which humans rely on to recognize...
Human clinical trial reveals verapamil as an effective type 1 diabetes therapy
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Diabetes Center have discovered a safe...
Can we get the immune system to tolerate organ transplants?
Credit: Fawn Gracey, Boston Children's Hospital Currently, people receiving organ transplants must take drugs to suppress the inflammatory immune response...
Kissing bugs kiss their hiding spots goodbye, thanks to tiny radio transmitters
Credit: Gabriel Hamer, Ph.D., Texas A&M University/Journal of Medical Entomology Annapolis, MD; July 9, 2018--With the continuing advance of technology,...
Penn’s Brian Capell, M.D., Ph.D., wins Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Brian C. Capell, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Dermatology in the Perelman School of...
Birds eat 400 to 500 million tonnes of insects annually
Birds around the world eat 400 to 500 million metric tonnes of beetles, flies, ants, moths, aphids, grasshoppers, crickets and...
How does Parkinson’s disease develop? Study raises doubts on theory of Parkinson’s disease
Credit: Biozentrum, University of Basel Parkinson's disease was first described by a British doctor more than 200 years' ago. The...
Protein function repairing genetic damage in spermatogenesis identified
Credit: IBB-UAB Researchers from the Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology and the Institute for Biotechnology and Biomedicine of...
Meningococcal infection: Bacterial aggregates form a thick honey-like liquid that flows through blood vessels
The Inserm team led by Guillaume Duménil at the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with several teams of physicists, has unraveled...
