Biology
NIH-supported international team confirms new genetic mutation link to ALS
Kinesin family member 5A (KIF5A), a gene previously linked to two rare neurodegenerative disorders, has been definitively connected to amyotrophic...
The curse of zombie fossils
Credit: Herschel Hoffmeyer New research has revealed how the history of life can be distorted by the ways animals decompose...
Creating a sustainable energy roadmap for Pittsburgh
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering/John Altdorfer PITTSBURGH (March 21, 2018) ... The City of Pittsburgh enjoyed three "renaissance" periods in...
Evidence for a giant flood in the central Mediterranean Sea
Marine scientists have uncovered evidence of one of the largest floods in Earth's history in the central Mediterranean seafloor. The...
New insights into the late history of Neandertals
Credit: I. Crevecoeur Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have sequenced the genomes of...
A potential drug target against a large family of parasites is identified
Credit: Jan Slapeta Apicomplexa form one of the largest and most diverse groups of obligate intracellular parasites, capable of infecting...
Researchers discover new anti-cancer protein
Credit: Image: University of Basel, Biozentrum/Swiss Nanoscience Institute An international team of researchers has discovered a new anti-cancer protein. The...
Researchers observe the switching of ras protein in detail
(Ruhr-University Bochum) Ras proteins are molecular switches that decide if and when cells divide inside our bodies. An impairment of...
First ‘non-gene’ mutations behind neurodevelopmental disorders discovered
In the largest study of its kind, genetic changes causing neurodevelopmental disorders have been discovered by scientists at the Wellcome...
New genetic research shows extent of cross-breeding between wild wolves and domestic dogs
Credit: Graziano Tortelli Mating between domesticated dogs and wild wolves over hundreds of years has left a genetic mark on...
Drought-induced changes in forest composition amplify effects of climate change
The face of American forests is changing, thanks to climate change-induced shifts in rainfall and temperature that are causing shifts...
New study brings us one step closer to understanding how tidal clocks tick
Credit: Yisrael Schnytzer Almost all organisms have an internal biological clock that synchronizes their behavior with the environment in which...
What plants can teach us about oil spill clean-up, microfluidics
Credit: Yang Yang For years, scientists have been inspired by nature to innovate solutions to tricky problems, even oil spills...
USTC reports diamond ring architecture of a protein complex
Credit: USTC News Center Just as diamond ring is needed in marriage, NuA4/Tip60, a complex with diamond ring architecture, is...
Marine researchers say recent sea star wasting disease epidemic defies prediction
Credit: Melissa Miner Beginning in 2013, a mysterious disease crippled sea star populations up and down the U.S. west coast....
Discovered mode of drinking in mosquitoes carries biomedical implications
Credit: Virginia Tech Mosquitoes may have a reputation for being one of the world's most intractable pests, but they're actually...
Vitamin D might be key to syndrome affecting half of women aged 50 or plus
Results of a study carried out in Brazil showed a strong association between vitamin D deficiency and metabolic syndrome in...
Natural sniper kills hospital bacterium
Bacteria produce proteins to take out specific competitors. One of these proteins can kill the hospital bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Microbial...
A method for predicting the impact of global warming on disease
Scientists have devised a method for predicting how rising global temperatures are likely to affect the severity of diseases mediated...
Researchers create new low-cost, sustainable material for reducing air and water pollution
Credit: © 2018 Zanoletti, Vassura, Venturini, Monai, Montini, Federici, Zacco, Treccani and Bontempi. Front. Chem. | doi: 10.3389/fchem.2018.00060 A new...
