Biology
Global kids study: More trees, less disease
Credit: No attribution required. A University of Vermont-led study of 300,000 children in 35 nations says kids whose watersheds have...
Type 1 diabetes and the microbiota: MAIT cells as biomarkers and new therapeutic targets
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease that develops when the immune system attacks beta cells in the pancreas....
Nerve cells’ gatekeepers take many forms
Credit: Rice University/UTHealth HOUSTON - (Oct. 9, 2017) - The ability to track the movements of single molecules has revealed...
Singapore’s first robot masseuse ‘EMMA’ starts work
Credit: NTU Singapore A robot masseuse has started work in Singapore today. Named Emma, short for Expert Manipulative Massage Automation,...
How global warming is drying up the North American monsoon
Credit: Pascale et al./Princeton University/NOAA Researchers have struggled to accurately model the changes to the abundant summer rains that sweep...
Birds reveal the importance of good neighbors for health and aging
Credit: Sjouke Anne Kingma Birds who live next door to family members or to other birds they know well are...
New congenital heart disease genes uncovered
Approximately one in every 100 babies is born with congenital heart disease (CHD), and CHD remains the leading cause of...
Addressing the double standard
Addressing the Double Standard: Compounded Bioidentical Hormone Therapies versus FDA-Approved Hormone Medications for Women A new editorial highlights the need...
Scientists complete conservation puzzle, shaping understanding of life on earth
An international team of scientists have completed the 'atlas of life' - the first global review and map of every...
Indigenous Nations’ environmental stewardship in tackling invasive species
As invasive species are threatening ecological habitats throughout the U.S. and Canada, the role of Indigenous nations as environmental stewards...
Penn team shows how seemingly acute viral infections can persist
Credit: University of Pennslyvania Infections caused by viruses, such as respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, measles, parainfluenza and Ebola, are...
Two firms awarded seed grants to develop medical devices for children
Credit: Voxello, LLC The Philadelphia Pediatric Medical Device Consortium (PPDC) has announced its latest round of seed grants to companies...
Researchers help develop new antifungal drug
University of Liverpool researchers, working with F2G Limited (Eccles, Manchester), have developed a new antifungal drug to help in the...
Genetic body/brain connection identified in genomic region linked to autism
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - For the first time, Whitehead Institute scientists have documented a direct link between deletions in two genes--fam57ba...
Plant cells survive but stop dividing upon DNA damage
Credit: Masaaki Umeda (Nara, Japan) The cell cycle is the system through which a cell grows and divides. It is...
UC Berkeley physicists, engineers to build next-generation MRI brain scanner
Credit: David Feinberg/UC Berkeley Functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, has transformed our view of the brain, allowing researchers to...
Predicting insect feeding preferences after deforestation
Credit: Felix Fornoff, University of Freiburg Like a scene from the movie Alien, insect parasitoids inject their eggs into unsuspecting...
Coal miners shift to beekeeping
Credit: University of Delaware Former coal miners or citizens whose lives have been shaped by the coal mining industry in...
Preeclampsia triggered by an overdose of gene activity
Preeclampsia is the most dangerous form of hypertension during a pregnancy and can be fatal for both mother and child....
DNA barcoding technology helping monitor health of all-important boreal forest
The Boreal forest is essential to Canada and the world, storing carbon, purifying water and air and regulating climate. But...
