Biology
Chemo-boosting drug discovered for leukemia
Credit: Diana Passaro Drugs developed to treat heart and blood vessel problems could be used in combination with chemotherapy to...
How the index finger can be fooled
Fingers are a human's most important tactile sensors, but they do not always sense accurately and can even be deceived....
New mechanisms of self-organization in living cells
Chromosome is a structure inside the cell nucleus that carries a large part of the genetic information and is responsible...
Why do guillemot chicks leap from the nest before they can fly?
Credit: Photo: Lars Maltha Rasmussen It looks like a spooky suicide when small, fluffy guillemot chicks leap from the cliffs...
Cells in standby mode
Normally, cells are highly active and dynamic: in their liquid interior, called the cytoplasm, countless metabolic processes occur in parallel,...
Scientists track down origin of bats killed by wind turbines using chemical fingerprints
Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science/Ed Gates FROSTBURG, MD (March 17, 2016) — Wind energy is a growing...
Vanderbilt engineers open source medical capsule robot technology
The likelihood that you will be swallowing a capsule robot in the near future has just jumped up dramatically. A...
Rare form of diabetes may require alternate treatment
Credit: Mills laboratory Patients with a rare, genetic form of diabetes often are misdiagnosed as having type 2 diabetes because...
Chemical profile of ants adapts rapidly
Credit: photo/©: Florian Menzel, JGU The bodies of ants and other insects are covered with a thin, wax-like layer that...
Science is core to saving wildlife
Credit: WCS Washington, DC, April 19, 2017 – The following statement was issued today by Wildlife Conservation Society President and...
Rift Valley fever virus: An infection mechanism identified
Credit: © Pablo Guardado-Calvo, Institut Pasteur Rift Valley fever virus, transmitted by mosquitoes, is responsible for outbreaks in livestock in...
NIAID funding to Jackson Laboratory researcher to investigate chronic fatigue syndrome
Professor Derya Unutmaz, M.D., of The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, will receive five years of funding — totaling $3,281,515...
RaQualia Pharma and Nagoya University’s ITbM start new collaboration
Nagoya, Japan – RaQualia Pharma Inc. and the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) of Nagoya University have announced a joint...
Closing the evidence gap on public attitudes toward genetic data handling
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and the Wellcome Genome Campus have launched a new project to explore...
New research suggests bird songs isolate species
Credit: University of British Columbia Two birds that look the same, but have songs so different they can't recognize each...
Foreign beetle species recorded for the first time in Canada thanks to…
Credit: Harald Schillhammer With social networks abound, it is no wonder that there is an online space where almost anyone...
NTU develops energy saving filters for wastewater treatment
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) have invented a new type of nanofilter that could reduce the energy needed...
Strange ‘chimeras’ defy science’s understanding of human genetics
Credit: UVA Health System The human genome is far more complex than thought, with genes functioning in an unexpected fashion...
Three new species of zoantharians described from coral reefs across the Indo-Pacific
Credit: Hiroki Kise Three new species of zoantharians were discovered by researchers from the University of the Ryukyus and Kagoshima...
Scientists find new evidence about how to prevent worsening pneumonia
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Sept. 5, 2017) – Sodium channels in the cells that line...