Biology
Asian hornet to colonize UK within 2 decades without action
Credit: National Bee Unit Honey bees across Europe have been impacted by Asian hornet since it first arrived in France...
Gulf Research Program announces 2017 Early-Career Research and Science Policy Fellowships
WASHINGTON - The Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today announced the recipients of...
Extreme melt season leads to decade-long ecosystem changes in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys
Credit: Peter Rejcek An abnormal season of intense glacial melt in 2002 triggered multiple distinct changes in the physical and...
Research-focused UH biotech program to expand nationally
Credit: University of Houston An innovative approach integrating classroom instruction and research at the University of Houston will be spread...
One step closer in explaining MS relapse during upper respiratory infection
Credit: Lauren D. Quinn URBANA, Ill. - For most of us, the flu is just the flu. We suffer through...
The mystery of the yellowing sugarcane
Credit: Annelie Marquardt, Sugar Research Australia Since 2011, a mysterious illness known as Yellow Canopy Syndrome, or YCS, has afflicted...
Increased brain acidity in psychiatric disorders
Your body's acid/alkaline homeostasis, or maintenance of an adequate pH balance in tissues and organs, is important for good health....
From the workbench to the bedside
PITTSBURGH (July 21, 2017) ...The University of Pittsburgh Coulter Translational Research Partners II Program awarded grants totaling $650,000 to six...
Modern domestic dog has a single geographic origin
(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) By analyzing the DNA of two prehistoric dogs from Germany, an international research team has determined...
Researchers find pathologic hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease in aged chimpanzee brains
Credit: iStock ATLANTA -- The brains of aged chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, show pathology similar to the human Alzheimer's...
New tumor database deployed to battle childhood Cancer at UC Santa Cruz
Credit: UCSC Xena Browser Group, and Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative, https://treehousegenomics.soe.ucsc.edu... SANTA CRUZ, CA - August 7 , 2017 -...
Drought-affected trees die from hydraulic failure and carbon starvation
The report finds that hydraulic failure, which is the inability of a plant to move water from roots to leaves...
Maize from El Gigante Rock Shelter shows early transition to staple crop
Credit: Ken Hirth, Penn State Mid-summer corn on the cob is everywhere, but where did it all come from and...
Dozens of new genes that create T cell-resistant cancer discovered with 2CT CRISPR screen
Credit: New York Genome Center New York, NY (Aug. 7, 2017) -- To better understand why some cancers are resistant...
Extreme melt season leads to decade-long ecosystem changes in Antarctic polar desert
Credit: Michael Gooseff An abnormal season of intense glacial melt in 2002 triggered multiple distinct changes in the physical and...
Overweight children and adults get significantly healthier and quickly with less sugar
CHICAGO, Aug. 7, 2017-- Osteopathic physicians suggest shifting the conversation from weight to health for overweight children and adults, asking...
How an unlikely cellular ‘antenna’ can impair brain development
Credit: Anton Lab, UNC CHAPEL HILL, NC - An antenna-like structure on cells, once considered a useless vestige, appears to...
Women have more active brains than men
Credit: Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Amsterdam, NL, Aug. 7, 2017 - In the largest functional brain imaging study to date,...
Single strep bacteria protein sets off white blood cell’s early warning system
Credit: UC San Diego Health Group A Streptococcus bacteria -- the cause of strep throat and flesh-eating infections -- have...
Small streams have a big influence on our lives
Small streams make up 70%-80% of the total channel length of river networks, and they strongly influence downstream portions these...
