Biology
Study published in Nature reveals molecular pathway of weight-controlling hormone
Credit: NGM Bio SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Oct. 2, 2017 - Scientists at NGM Bio have revealed deep insights...
Low consumption of vitamin K by adolescents associated with unhealthy enlargement of the heart’s major pumping chamber
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Oct. 2, 2017) - Scientists have found another reason for children...
Kinesins ignore weak forces as they carry heavy loads
Credit: Center for Theoretical Biological Physics/Rice University If you're the motor protein up front, be prepared to do the heavy...
An algorithm that explains how ants create and repair trail networks
Credit: Deborah Gordon Imagine you're a member of the Cephalotes goniodontus species, an arboreal ant with a Darth Vader-like head...
US Department of Energy awards Danforth Center $16 million to enhance sorghum for bioenergy
Credit: NA ST. LOUIS, MO, Oct. 2, 2017 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, one of the world's largest...
Basis of development of vertebrate limb muscles has been established in cartilaginous fishes
Credit: nature ecology & evolution The development of limb muscle has been well studied in most land dwelling vertebrates such...
Genetic study investigates ways to increase productivity and tenderness of meat
Credit: Heitor Shimizu / Agência FAPESP Brazil has the world's largest commercial beef herd, numbering over 225 million heads of...
Children without allergies can still be afflicted with asthma-like coughing and wheezing
EMBARGOED UNTIL 9:00 a.m., ET, Monday, October 2, 2017, Cleveland: Doctors have long wondered why children without allergies can still...
Mini-kidneys grown in lab reveal renal disease secrets
Credit: Randy Carnell and Megan Clark/UW Medicine By creating and manipulating mini-kidney organoids that contain a realistic micro-anatomy, UW Medicine...
New Princeton-CUNY program to bring together physicists and biologists
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $13 million to create the Center for the Physics of Biological Function, a...
Most Americans want the government to combat climate change, some willing to pay a high amount
Sixty-one percent of Americans think climate change is a problem that the government needs to address, including 43 percent of...
Statement on the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017
Credit: Nobel Media. Ill. N. Elmehed The Nobel Assembly has awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly...
New report details innovations in water reuse
Credit: Colorado State University In drought-prone states like California, Colorado and others, every drop of water is precious. A newly...
SenGupta authors ‘Ion Exchange in Environmental Processes’ book
Credit: John Wiley & Sons Arup K. SenGupta, P.C. Rossin Professor in the departments of civil and environmental engineering and...
Advancing algae for better biofuels
Credit: AzCATI at Arizona State University Colorado State University scientists are partners in a three-year grant of up to $3.5...
US Department of Energy awards Danforth Center $16M to enhance sorghum for bioenergy
Credit: NA ST. LOUIS, MO, Oct. 2, 2017 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, one of the world's largest...
Rosbash awarded 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Credit: Scott Eisen/ Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute announced today that Michael Rosbash, a...
When HIV drugs don’t cooperate
The term "synergy" has gained a reputation as an overused buzzword, but it has a quantifiable definition in pharmacology. Two...
Win-win strategies for climate and food security
Credit: Frank et al., 2017 Climate policies that target agriculture and forests could lead to increased food prices, but reducing...
Update on an endangered Philippine cycad species
Credit: Thomas Marler When plant species are threatened to the point that they reach a designation of Critically Endangered, sustaining...
