Biology
Wireless food stamp transactions tied to healthier shopping
New research links the equipping of mobile fruit and vegetable stands with wireless banking devices programmed to accept food stamps...
A new approach to high insulin levels
Credit: Pierre Maechler / UNIGE Diabetes is characterised by a deficiency of insulin. The opposite is the case in congenital...
An effective way to eliminate atrazine and its by-products in surface water
Atrazine, widely used as a weedkiller, is known to have harmful effects on aquatic wildlife and presents a risk to...
Scalable process discovered to produce structural colors inspired by bird feathers
Credit: The University of Akron In the colorful world in which we live, colors are significant for not only aesthetics...
5,000 deaths annually from dieselgate in Europe
Credit: Jonson et al 2017 Since the late 1990s the share of diesel cars in the EU has risen to...
German scientists question study about plastic-eating caterpillars
In April, the report of plastic bag eating caterpillars caused sensation in worldwide media. The authors around Federica Bertocchini of...
Memory decline after head injury may be prevented by slowing brain cell growth
The excessive burst of new brain cells after a traumatic head injury that scientists have traditionally believed helped in recovery...
Carbohydrates may be the key to a better malaria vaccine
Credit: WEHI.TV/Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research An international research team has shown for the first time that...
Grant supports research to enhance epithelial barrier function, immune response
A faculty member in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has received a $7.3 million grant for innovative research on...
The time is RIPE to transform agriculture and feed the world
Credit: Brian Stauffer/University of Illinois Political and agricultural leaders gathered at the University of Illinois today to see transformative work...
University of Minnesota researchers replicate FSH muscular dystrophy in mice
A new study published in the journal Nature Communications describes a breakthrough in research related to facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD)....
The body’s own fat-metabolism protects against the harmful effects of sugar
For several years, medical researchers, doctors and dieticians have known that a low carbohydrate diet and plentiful fat can prevent...
Sustainable recreational fisheries the focus of $1.5 million NSF grant
Credit: Alex Ross (Millbrook, NY) In the US, recreational fishing generates over $25 billion annually. Each year, 30 million people...
SourceData from EMBO wins the 2017 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing
Amsterdam and Heidelberg, 15 September 2017 - SourceData (sourcedata.embo.org), an open platform from EMBO, designed to make published scientific data...
Kit will identify genetic variations without need for lab analysis
Credit: Scheme Lab Scheme Lab, a biotech startup incubated at the Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Technology (CIETEC), in São...
Humans no longer have ancient defence mechanism against viruses
Insects and plants have an important ancient defence mechanism that helps them to fight viruses. This is encoded in their...
Ancient amphibian had mouthful of teeth ready to grab you: UTM research
Credit: University of Toronto Mississauga The idea of being bitten by a nearly toothless modern frog or salamander sounds laughable,...
Wolves understand cause and effect better than dogs
Credit: Michelle Lampe/Wolf Science Center A good example of the connection between cause and effect, is that an object which...
Sugary secrets of a cancer-related protein
The proteins in human cells are extensively decorated with different types of sugars, a phenomenon called glycosylation. These modifications greatly...
Contaminants in food: Health risks of natural origin are frequently underestimated
These are the findings of a representative study recently conducted by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) on...
