Biology
Australian origin likely for iconic New Zealand tree
Credit: Image credit: Kahuroa. No rights reserved. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MetrosiderosAK.jpg Ancestors of the iconic New Zealand Christmas Tree, P?hutukawa, may...
Geology rocks the Pacific Northwest: GSA Meeting returns to Seattle
Boulder, CO, USA: Registration is open for The Geological Society of America's Annual Meeting & Exposition, to be held 22-25...
Critical gaps in our knowledge of where infectious diseases occur
Credit: C. Rahbek, L. A. Hansen, J. Fjeldså, One-degree resolution database of the global distribution of birds (The Natural History...
UM research points to previously unknown pine marten diversity
MISSOULA - The elusive American pine marten, a little-studied member of the weasel family, might be more diverse than originally...
Worm studies investigate how grandparents’ experiences can affect our genes
Studies of human populations suggest that our health and longevity could be affected by the diets and experiences of our...
How pythons regenerate their organs and other secrets of the snake genome
Credit: Todd Castoe Evolution takes eons, but it leaves marks on the genomes of organisms that can be detected with...
How eggs got their shapes
Credit: (Credit: Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology) The evolution of the amniotic egg -- complete with membrane and shell --...
Veteran scientist shares wisdom, experiences, crop management tactics in new book
Credit: The American Phytopathological Society St. Paul, Minn. (June 2017)--Dr. R. James (Jim) Cook, a retired research plant pathologist, U.S....
Patient-inspired research uncovers new link to rare disorder
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Meeting a young patient with Zellweger syndrome, a rare, life-threatening genetic disease, started a scientific...
Sea sponges stay put with anchors that bend but don’t break
Credit: Kesari Lab/Brown Universtiy PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Sea sponges known as Venus' flower baskets remain fixed to the sea floor...
Tourette Syndrome risk increases in people with genetic copy variations
An international team that just conducted the largest study of Tourette Syndrome has identified genetic abnormalities that are the first...
How pheromones trigger female sexual behavior
Credit: 2017 Kazushige Touhara. A study by a group of Japanese scientists showed how a male pheromone in mice enhances...
Select memories can be erased, leaving others intact
Credit: Schacher Lab/Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY (June 22, 2017) -- Different types of memories stored in the...
Biofilms — the eradication has begun
Credit: Brendan Snarr, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre Montreal, June 22 2017 - Have you ever heard...
Cleveland Clinic discovers similarities between next-generation prostate cancer drugs
Cleveland: Cleveland Clinic researchers have shown for the first time how a class of advanced prostate cancer drugs are processed...
Allen Institute releases new data and visualizations for Allen Brain Observatory
Credit: Allen Institute The Allen Institute for Brain Science today announced the release of new data and analysis tools for...
The world’s largest canary
Biologists at Lund University, together with their colleagues from Portugal and the UK, have now proven that the endangered São...
Drowsy dormice doze into decline
Credit: Thames Water & People's Trust for Endangered Species Britain's population of hazel dormice, famed for their sleepy lifestyle, has...
Spanish researchers review the state-of-the-art text mining technologies for chemistry
In a recent Chemical Reviews article, the Biological Text Mining Unit at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) together...
When estimating extinction risk, don’t leave out the males
Credit: Luke Eberhart-Phillips Extinction risk for some species could be drastically underestimated because most demographic models of animal populations only...