Biology
Beetle’s best friend: Trained dogs most efficient in monitoring hermit beetle larvae
Credit: Emilia Capogna and S?nke Hardersen Hermit beetles (Osmoderma eremita) are considered at risk, but in order to be effectively...
Largest Ichthyosaurus was pregnant mother
Credit: copyright of Joschua Knüppe. Scientists from the UK and Germany have discovered the largest Ichthyosaurus on record and found...
Keeping pandas off endangered list ledge
Credit: Sue Nichols, Michigan State University Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability Things aren't all black and white for giant...
Worm infection reveals cross-talk in the lymph nodes
Credit: Lalit Kumar Dubey/EPFL Lymph nodes are small, kidney-shaped organs found throughout the body. Full of immune cells, their function...
Helping corals to cope with pressure
Credit: © 2016 Anna Roik Tiny plant cells, known as dinoflagellates, that live within coral tissue can help to regulate...
Compounds in cocoa may help delay onset of type 2 diabetes
Credit: BYU Photo What if eating chocolate helped prevent and treat diabetes? It's crazy enough to laugh off. But here's...
Eating triggers endorphin release in the brain
Credit: Turku PET Centre Finnish researchers have revealed how eating stimulates brain's endogenous opioid system to signal pleasure and satiety....
Chronic lack of sleep increases risk-seeking
Young adults have a natural sleep requirement of about 9 hours a day on average, older adults 7.5 hours. Many...
New technique to aid IVF embryo selection
Credit: The IVF image is a freely usable public domain image with no copyright or acknowledgment required. Researchers at the...
Repetitive elements shape embryonic chromatin landscape
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Retrotransposons are repetitive elements that form almost half of the...
New member of NAS reveals how animals select good microbes, reject harmful ones
Credit: Kent Nishimura Margaret McFall-Ngai, professor and director of the Pacific Biosciences Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science...
UMass Amherst study of bee health finds no natural medicine in once-promising compound
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - A new study of possible self-medicating behavior in bumble bees conducted by researchers at...
Study corrects the record on the relative risk of Alzheimer’s between men and women
Credit: USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute White women whose genetic makeup puts them at higher risk for Alzheimer's disease...
Portland State research in ancient forests show link between climate change and wildfires
(Portland, Ore.) August 28, 2017 - Portland State researchers studying centuries-old trees in South America have found a tight correlation...
Cell symposia on CRISPR: From biology to technology
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, whose lab was involved in a recent, successful effort...
Climate may quickly drive forest-eating beetles north, says study
Credit: Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Over the next few decades, global warming-related rises in winter temperatures could significantly extend the...
Combination of conventional and new drugs enhances tumor cell death
Cancer is one of the major causes of death worldwide affecting 8.2 million of people per year, and in the...
It’s not a rat’s race for human stem cells grafted to repair spinal cord injuries
More than one-and-a-half years after implantation, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the San Diego...
GW researcher awarded $2 million to study natural immune response to HIV
WASHINGTON (Aug. 28, 2017) -- A research team at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences...
Algae fortifies coral reefs in past and present
Credit: Anna Weiss The Great Barrier Reef, and most other large reefs around the world, owe their bulk in large...
