Biology
Study identifies whale blow microbiome
Credit: Photo by John Durban (NOAA), Holly Fearnbach (SR3) and Lance Barrett- Lennard (Coastal Ocean Research Institute). Drone collected samples...
Scientist to study biomarkers of brain region variation important to neuropsychiatric disorders
San Antonio, Texas (Oct. 10, 2017) - Neuropsychiatric disorders like bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder, and...
MPFI scientists discover regional differences among chandelier cells
Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience The brain is composed of distinct regions that differ in their functional roles...
Growing human brain cells in the lab
San Francisco, CA--Li Gan, PhD, wants to find treatments to help patients with Alzheimer's disease. Like most researchers, she's hit...
Raging Bull: First study to find link between testosterone and stock market instability
Key Takeaway: Increasing testosterone levels in men, who make up the majority of professional stock market traders, causes them to...
Protein restricts sap uptake by aphids
Credit: Karen Kloth Researchers at Umeå University and Wageningen University have discovered how plants can defend themselves against aphids. They...
New Zika serotypes may emerge, researcher warns
Zika virus is mutating so fast in Brazilian patients that different serotypes of the pathogen could appear in the near...
The costs of transporting petroleum products by pipelines and rail
While the policy debate surrounding crude oil transportation costs has emphasized accidents and spills, a new study by Carnegie Mellon...
A molecular garbage disposal complex has a role in packing the genome
New research from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, to be published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry on...
Flexible sensors can detect movement in GI tract
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers CAMBRIDGE, MA - Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have built a flexible...
Kent State professor works with NASA Glenn & others to improve Lake Erie’s water quality
Credit: Photo credit: Sunny Dickerson, Bowling Green State University The conditions in Lake Erie continue to pose several health risks...
Do male fish prefer them big and colourful?
Male black-finned goodeid or mexcalpique fish know what they want when they pick a female to mate with; they prefer...
How to ‘cook’ an egg without heat — and other weird egg science (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 2017 -- You can learn a lot from eggs. The versatile, delicious,...
Fighting sickle cell disease by looking back to infancy
Credit: Sarah Pack Fast-track research focused on developing a new gene-modifying sickle cell disease treatment at the Medical University of...
DFG establishes 2 new senate commissions
At its autumn session, the Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) approved the establishment of two new...
Call to action on food justice and overcoming disparities in infant nutrition
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 10, 2017--The "first food system" in the U.S., which calls...
When the brain’s wiring breaks
Credit: N/A Among all the bad things that can happen to the brain when it is severely jolted - in...
Conservationists’ eco-footprints suggest education alone won’t change behavior
Conservationists work to save the planet, and few are as knowledgeable when it comes to the environmental pressures of the...
Effort to create mouse that more closely mirrors human Alzheimer’s wins federal grant
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 10, 2017 - A proposal to humanize several mouse genes for research into Alzheimer's disease has spurred...
TB Alliance moves two novel tuberculosis drugs into human trials
GUADALAJARA (10 October, 2017) -- TBA-7371 and sutezolid entered phase 1 clinical trials, TB Alliance announced today. Both compounds have...
