Biology
Can the environment help control disease in Asian aquaculture?
The University of Southampton is leading an international project to understand how the environment can help to control the risk...
Promising new therapeutic approach for debilitating bone disease
Credit: Dr Michelle McDonald Friday 30 June, 2017: An Australian-led research team has demonstrated a new therapeutic approach that can...
Omega-3 intake reduces cardiac death risk according to comprehensive…
Credit: Maki et al Results from a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Lipidology showed that in 14...
Birds of a feather
Credit: Eddy Perez, LSU Biologists have always been fascinated by the diversity and changeability of life on Earth and have...
Neurons form synapse clusters
Credit: MPI of Neurobiology / Scheuss The cerebral cortex resembles a vast switchboard. Countless lines carrying information about the environment,...
Tracking humanity: The new key to forecasting global change
Credit: Image courtesy of Sander van der Leeuw and Anthropocene Phoenix, AZ — Humankind may still prove to be the...
Artificial ‘skin’ gives robotic hand a sense of touch
Credit: University of Houston A team of researchers from the University of Houston has reported a breakthrough in stretchable electronics...
Salk Institute awarded $25 million grant from Helmsley Charitable Trust
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA — (Nov. 21, 2016) The Salk Institute for Biological Studies has received a $25 million...
New class of drugs holds promise for combating antibiotic resistance
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory A new class of drugs that combat antibiotic resistance has been discovered by a University...
In bee decline, fungicides emerge as improbable villain
When a Cornell-led team of scientists analyzed two dozen environmental factors to understand bumblebee population declines and range contractions, they...
Elongation by contraction
Credit: Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore Scientists from the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS)...
Two Caribbean bird-catcher trees named after 2 women with overlooked botanical works
Credit: Rosimar Rivera Colón Known for their biodiversity richness, the Caribbean Islands are now adding two new species of bird-catcher...
New findings show promise for treatment of Graves’ disease and other ocular…
Credit: The American Journal of Pathology Philadelphia, PA, November 11, 2016 – A new class of therapies may be on...
Research reveals ‘exquisite selectivity’ of neuronal wiring in the cerebral cortex
Credit: Huang Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY – The brain's astonishing anatomical complexity has been appreciated for over 100...
Heat shock regulator controlled by on/off switch and phosphorylation
Credit: Courtesy of eLife CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (November 10, 2016) – Whitehead Institute researchers have determined how the master transcriptional regulator...
Keep an eye on children’s calories, researchers say
Most children overeat significantly when served large portions of calorie-dense popular foods, according to a Penn State study. The results...
New method helps identify antibiotics in mass spectrometry datasets
Credit: UC San Diego An international team of computer scientists has for the first time developed a method to find...
For tropical mayflies, mountain passes are higher indeed
FORT COLLINS, COLO. – In tropical climes, animals and plants aren't adapted to surviving freezing temperatures – and why would...
Key immunological mechanism for regulating intestinal flora discovered
Credit: Jose Cano Researchers at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) have shown for the first time that...
Rice cultivation in Southeast Asia: 5 years of lessons learned by LEGATO
Credit: Pavel Stoev Five years of irrigated rice cultivation research reached its pinnacle at the Final LEGATO Conference, which took...
