Biology
Protein critical to early stages of cellular HIV infection identified
Credit: Department of Molecular Virology,TMDU Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU)-led researchers identify a protein critical to the early stages...
Playing with your brain
Human-computer interactions, such as playing video games, can have a negative impact on the brain, says a new Canadian study...
Assembling nanomachines in bacteria
Credit: Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) One of the oldest nanomachines in biology is the bacterial flagellum. This apparatus is evolutionary...
The 4th Annual Aging Research for Drug Discovery Forum at the EMBO/Basel Life Conference
Credit: Insilico Medicine, Inc. Tuesday, August 8th, 2018, Baltimore, MD - Many areas of science and technology are experiencing rapid...
Swedish researchers and global fishing companies form coalition for sustainable seas
Credit: Photo: Wikimedia commons The initiative marks the first time that companies from Asia, Europe and the US have joined...
Four new fruit fly species from the Himalaya and information about their flower visitation
Credit: Dr Rajendra S Fartyal The first record of flower visitation in a group of fruit flies from Himalayan India...
New microscope technique reveals internal structure of live embryos
Credit: Image courtesy Gabriel Popescu CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- University of Illinois researchers have developed a way to produce 3-D images...
Warm periods in the 20th century are not unprecedented during the last 2,000 years
Credit: Yang Liu & Jingyun Zheng A great deal of evidence relating to ancient climate variation is preserved in proxy...
Are learning and unlearning bedfellows?
The human brain's capacity for learning is astonishing: it can even memorize meaningless sounds if repeated. Hence, a pattern of...
Amniotic sac in a dish: Stem cells form structures that may aid of infertility research
Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The first few weeks after sperm meets egg still hold many mysteries....
Local collaboration key to protecting pollinators while managing ticks, mosquitoes
Annapolis, MD; Aug. 3, 2017 -- Managing mosquito and tick populations and protecting the health of pollinators are growing concerns...
Magnetic fields turn up the heat on bacterial biofilms
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - August 8, 2017 - A short exposure to an alternating magnetic field might someday replace...
Harvard’s Wyss Institute launches Root Robotics, an educational startup
Credit: Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University (BOSTON) -- The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University today...
Amateur collectors in Japan discover country’s first and oldest fossil diving bird
Credit: Illustration by Masato Hattori HOKKAIDO, JAPAN (Aug. 8, 2017) - During a walk near a reservoir in a small...
MPFI researchers make significant advance in understanding calcium channel function
Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience Approximately eight years ago, former Research Group Leader at Max Planck Florida Institute...
Penn State’s Institute for CyberScience faculty member wins $1.9 million NIH award
Edward O'Brien, assistant professor of chemistry, Penn State and an associate with the University's Institute for CyberScience (ICS), has received...
Registration open for Wyss Institute’s 8th annual international symposium
The 8th Annual Wyss International Symposium will focus on innovations in Therapeutic Organ Engineering, with the goal of sharing recent...
Study links unhealthy segregated neighborhoods to childhood asthma
Credit: Egan Jimenez, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University PRINCETON, N.J. -- Researchers have had trouble explaining why black children are...
New antibiotic class found effective against gonorrhea in the laboratory
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has estimated that 700,000 people around the world die annually from drug resistant infections. It...
New approach makes it easier to find novel drugs
Credit: Luiz Carvalho Scientists have created a new way of screening compounds that is more sensitive than existing methods, opening...
