Biology
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
NUS study: Deforestation in Cambodia linked to higher risk of ill health in young children
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have found that the loss of dense forest in Cambodia was associated...
From plant odorant detection to sex pheromone communication
Biologists at Lund University in Sweden are now able to show that the receptors enabling the primitive moth species, Eriocrania...
Study identifies genes linked to better immune response to flu vaccine
New Haven, Conn.-- Yale experts and their partners in a national research consortium have identified several genes and gene clusters...
Faster, more precise, more stable: Study optimizes graphene growth
Credit: Photo: J. Kraus/ TUM Each atomic layer thin, tear-resistant, and stable. Graphene is seen as the material of the...
Given the choice, zebrafish willingly dose themselves with opioids
Credit: University of Utah Health As the opioid crisis escalates, the science behind addiction remains poorly understood. To address this...
Millions of novel genetic variants found in 1000 Swedish individuals
An extensive exercise to map genetic variation in Sweden has found 33 million genetic variants, 10 million of which are...
Microbes compete for nutrients, affect metabolism, development in mice
Credit: Bryce Richter/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- "Gut bacteria get to use a lot of our food before we do," says...
Dancing can reverse the signs of aging in the brain
As we grow older we suffer a decline in mental and physical fitness, which can be made worse by conditions...
CWRU awarded funding to understand how plant particle stimulates anti-tumor response
Nicole Steinmetz, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, member of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Center for...
New wrapping material enables high quality bioimaging
(Hokkaido University) A nanosheet made of organic polymers has been developed to prevent the drying and deforming of biological samples,...
NSF awards CCNY-led team inaugural convergence research grant
Credit: Ana Carnaval City College of New York biodiversity expert Ana Carnaval co-heads an interdisciplinary team of scientists that won...
