Biology
Genome scientists use UK Salmonella cases to shed light on African epidemic
Credit: Siân Owen and Rocío Canals Scientists at the University of Liverpool and Public Health England have used Salmonella genome...
Future climate change may not adversely affect seafood quality
Credit: Anaelle Lemasson/University of Plymouth The eating qualities of UK oysters may not be adversely affected by future ocean acidification...
Tracking mosquitoes with your cellphone
Credit: Kurt Hickman/Stanford News Service It's a sound that can keep even the weariest among us from falling asleep: the...
Aging has distinct and opposite effects on tendon in males and females
New research from the University of Liverpool, published in the journal Scientific Reports, has identified that in tendon ageing has...
Stem cells conduct cartilage regeneration but are not directly involved
Credit: Vetmeduni Vienna Therapy with mesenchymal stem cells, the so-called progenitor cells of connective tissue, holds great promise for the...
Humans don’t use as much brainpower as we like to think
Credit: Image by Arianna Harrington, Duke University. DURHAM, N.C. -- For years, scientists assumed that humans devote a larger share...
New toolkit reveals novel cancer genes
A new statistical model has enabled researchers to pinpoint 27 novel genes thought to prevent cancer from forming, in an...
Landmark discovery turns marathon of evolution into a sprint
Credit: John Innes Centre A research collaboration has discovered a new way of rapidly generating a swathe of medically significant...
Why do some head knocks cause more damage than others?
Credit: Pinton Lab, UNC-Chapel Hill CHAPEL HILL, NC - Veteran sailors know that rogue waves can rise suddenly in mid-ocean...
Lemurs are weird because Madagascar’s fruit is weird
Credit: George Selley Lemurs are primates like us, but they're the weird cousins. They're found only on Madagascar off the...
How an interest in bipolar disorder drugs led to a better understanding of leukemia
Credit: Mansi Shinde and Simone Sidoli A research project that began 20 years ago with an interest in how lithium...
INRS to upgrade its tomography and ultrafast dynamic imaging facilities
Studying geological reservoirs in near "real world" conditions, monitoring the behavior of hydrocarbons around sea ice, better understanding how chemical...
The University Medical Center Groningen and Novogene announce the start of the 10K Metagenome Project
Groningen, Netherlands and Beijing, China - October 31, 2017 - A research group led by Professor Cisca Wijmenga from the...
Dinosaur-killing asteroid impact cooled Earth’s climate more than previously thought
WASHINGTON D.C. -- The Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs likely released far more climate-altering sulfur gas into...
MSU biologists discovered the pathways of groups of the lophophore
Credit: Aleksander Semenov Scientists from Moscow State University have proved that lophophorates - the invertebrates with special tentacular apparatus -...
Artificial Intelligence uncovers anti-aging plant extracts
Credit: Insilico Medicine Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017, Baltimore, Md. - Life Extension, in collaboration with Insilico Medicine, have employed artificial...
Researchers at NYITCOM link Western diet to vascular damage and prediabetes
Old Westbury, NY, October 31, 2017 - Could short-term exposure to the average American diet increase one's risk for developing...
Aliens may be more like us than we think
Hollywood films and science fiction literature fuel the belief that aliens are other-worldly, monster-like beings, who are very different to...
Research shows how environment plays key role in changing movement behavior of animals
Theory explains how animals such as bats, insects and birds adjust movement behaviour based on environment Environmental cues which could...
Red Sea is warming faster than global average
Credit: Reproduced with permission from reference 1© 2017 Nature Publishing Group "The global rate of ocean warming has many consequences...
