Biology
Ancestral people of Chaco Canyon likely grew their own food
Credit: Samantha Fladd/UC Researchers think they have a better understanding for how ancient North Americans thrived for centuries in northwestern...
Personality pressure
For more than a century, scientists have understood that natural selection have profound effects on how an animal looks -...
What’s in an egg? Oocyte factors that can reprogram adult cells
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 3, 2018-The promise of generating truly pluripotent stem cells from...
Emerging gene editing approach seeks broad spectrum crop disease resistance
Credit: Texas A&M AgriLife Illustration by Gabe Saldana DALLAS -- A novel gene editing approach could hold the key to...
UH Cancer Center renews NCI designation
Credit: UH Cancer Center The University of Hawai'i Cancer Center successfully competed for renewal of National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation,...
New clues to sepsis may speed diagnosis
Sepsis is an infection that kills as many Americans each year as stroke and Alzheimer's combined-about 250,000-but very little has...
Scientists identify mechanism that may explain why males are more at risk than females for neurodevelopmental disorders
Researchers have recently begun to realize that biological sex plays a key role in disease risk. Sex plays a role...
Researchers discover new enzyme paradigm for critical reaction researchers discover new enzyme paradigm for critical reaction in converting lignin to useful produce useful products
An international research team, including scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), has discovered...
Can citizen science reverse the extinction of experience?
Credit: Matt Zeher Opportunities for people to interact with nature have declined over the past century, as most people now...
Self-healing seed pods
Credit: Jessica Huss An international team of researchers including members of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces has...
Study finds new genomic regions associated to weight gain in Nelore cattle
A pioneering research project has identified genes potentially associated with functions such as growth and weight gain in the Nelore...
Boosting testosterone makes men prefer higher-status products
In the animal kingdom, males of certain species possess flashy ornamentation that appears to do little to enhance their survival;...
Southeast Asian forest loss greater than expected, with negative climate implications
Credit: the researchers Researchers using satellite imaging have found much greater than expected deforestation since 2000 in the highlands of...
RESOLUTE:13 academic & industry partners join forces to unlock SLCs for new therapies
Credit: Resolute Consortium / Bojan Vilageos By combining an inclusive, open-access ethos to the techniques and results of the research...
Shedding light on the energy-efficiency of photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is one of the most crucial life processes on earth. It's how plants get their food, using energy from...
Mutation and 3D modeling reveal new structure to cell division process
Credit: OIST Cell division is one of the most fundamental processes of biology. It's what allows all living things to...
Gulf stream eddies as a source of iron
Credit: Graphic: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Minuscule sea creatures like cyanobacteria need large amounts of trace elements...
NTU Singapore receives $16.4 million for its Wallenberg-NTU Fellowship to nurture young scientists
The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the largest private financier of research in Sweden, is making a 50 million Swedish...
Study: Fungi and bacteria grow on body implants
A body implant provides a new habitat for bacteria and fungi, a new study conducted at the University of Copenhagen...
A perioral soft tissue evaluation after orthognathic surgery
Aesthetic surgeries are performed to correct the facial appearance, which can mean that these processes can sometimes create enormous changes...
