Biology
Hostage situation or harmony? Researchers rethink symbiosis
Credit: Vittorio Boscaro and Patrick Keeling Relationships where two organisms depend on each other, known as symbiosis, evoke images of...
Seeing in the dark: Minus sunlight, a general theory reveals universal patterns in ecology
There's a 50-hectare forested plot in Panama where researchers with the Smithsonian have gathered highly detailed information about the species,...
Experts win support to tackle rising threat of antibiotic resistance
A team of scientists are to pool their expertise to tackle one of the biggest health challenges facing society -...
Scientists propose new approach to hitting the gym
James Cook University sports scientists are warning that fatigue from weight training can carry over to endurance training and the...
The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology 2017 Annual Meeting
The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), an American Institute of Biological Sciences member society, fosters research, education, public...
Risk for bipolar disorder associated with faster aging
New King's College London research suggests that people with a family history of bipolar disorder may 'age' more rapidly than...
NUS scientists identify optimal areas for conservation and agriculture in the tropics
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has recently completed a global study on the trade-offs...
A hybrid material to spot organic contaminants in the atmosphere
The development of hybrid materials is an emerging field in materials science. As the researcher explained, the interest in these...
How bacteria maintain and recover their shape
Credit: (Image courtesy of Harvard SEAS) Bacteria come in all shapes and sizes -- some are straight as a rod,...
Novel thermal ablation system for transdermal drug delivery
Credit: Professor Takuro Niidome Many diseases are treated with protein-based drugs. However, due to the size of the molecules, the...
New 10-MW offshore wind generator prototype
A huge market volume in offshore wind turbines is expected over the next few years, but a significant cost reduction...
Physicists gain new insights into nanosystems with spherical confinement
Credit: Ill./©: Arash Nikoubashman, Mainz University Theoretical physicists led by Professor Kurt Binder and Dr. Arash Nikoubashman at Johannes Gutenberg...
Shedding light deeper into the human brain
Credit: Texas A&M University The inner workings of the human brain have always been a subject of great interest. Unfortunately,...
Queen’s University Belfast researcher turning dirty tinfoil into biofuel catalyst
Credit: Queen's University Belfast A researcher at Queen's University Belfast has discovered a way to convert dirty aluminium foil into...
Stanford researchers engineer 3-D hydrogels for tissue-specific cartilage repair
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, N.Y., July 26, 2017--Unlike the one-size-fits-all, homogeneous approach to tissue engineering for...
Study sheds light on how body may detect early signs of cancer
Fresh insights into how cells detect damage to their DNA - a hallmark of cancer - could help explain how...
Inventions by young KTU researchers can identify early stages of flatfeet condition
Credit: KTU A team of researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) have designed a device for measuring pressure on...
Understanding cell segregation mechanisms which help prevent cancer spread
Credit: David Wilkinson Scientists have uncovered how cells are kept in the right place as the body develops, which may...
Quantifying lower limb muscle weakness in Osteogenesis Imperfecta type IV
Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) is a heritable disorder characterized by increased bone fragility. In OI Type IV muscle weakness has important...
Identified the component that allows a lethal bacteria to spread resistance to antibiotics
Credit: Radoslaw Pluta, IRB Barcelona Antibiotic resistance of the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is responsible for 11,300 deaths a year in...
