Biology
The undertaker’s census
Credit: Andres Hernandez, STRI How many mammal species live in a tropical forest? Some are nocturnal. Others are small, furtive...
Wiley content sharing launches across Wiley Online Library
HOBOKEN, NJ--July 31, 2017-- John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb), today announced the launch of Wiley Content...
Advancing public engagement at the Ecological Society of America
Credit: Courtesy Caitlin Weber With the growing concern for global and local environmental issues, ecologists in academia, agencies and the...
Taboo around vaginal bleeding endangers women’s health
July 31, 2017 -- The culture of silence around vaginal bleeding at all stages of life endangers women's health and...
Study finds promise in new tactic to curb obesity: Address physician bias
CHICAGO, July 31, 2017-- An educational initiative at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine is reducing medical students' negative attitudes...
Researchers build a patch to help cardiac muscle beat more strongly after a heart attack
Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute A research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has been awarded a $452,000 National Institutes of...
Scientists challenge next-generation sequencing dogma
Credit: ©M. Lemke Next-generation sequencing--the ability to sequence millions or billions of small fragments of DNA in parallel--has revolutionized the...
Biomedical researcher gets $1.9 million to study influenza vaccines and cross protective immunity
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Dr. Sang-Moo Kang, professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has renewed...
Dinosaur-era plant found alive in North America for first time
Imagine you're at work and suddenly, a cheetah pokes its head through your window. That's about what Richard McCourt, PhD,...
Exercise incentives do little to spur gym-going, study shows
Credit: CWRU Even among people who had just joined a gym and expected to visit regularly, getting paid to exercise...
Into a competitive world, guppies are born not just bigger, but more mature
Credit: Terry Dial PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Throughout nature, moms engage in a trade-off: Churn out a bevy of offspring and...
Research at University of Illinois to investigate oil field biosouring with new technology
Credit: Tom Murphy A new research project at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University...
Lab led by Zhe Han, Ph.D., receives $1.75 million from NIH to continue pioneering research
Credit: Children's National Health System The National Institutes of Health has awarded $1.75 million to a research lab led by...
Geologist offers new clues to cause of world’s greatest extinction
A study by a researcher in the Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences offers new clues to what may...
Research on nitric oxide-releasing nanoparticles reveals viable skin infection treatment
WASHINGTON (July 31, 2017) -- George Washington University (GW) researchers have found that topically applied nitric oxide-releasing nanoparticles (NO-np) are...
New system could remove two water pollutants from ag fields
Credit: Laura Christianson URBANA, Ill. - Algae blooms in the Gulf of Mexico use up the majority of the oxygen...
Big data approach can predict toxicity of chemicals, save animals
Delhi -- Experts from across India will gather from July 31 to August 1 at the Indian Institute of Technology...
Scientists discover biomarkers which could lead to better treatments for CF pat
Credit: JD Howell, McMaster University Researchers have identified two new biological markers of cystic fibrosis (CF), a genetic disease which...
Leaf beetles: Even a tiny dose of pesticide will impair reproduction
Credit: Photo: Bielefeld University One finding is that leaf beetles lay roughly 35 per cent fewer eggs after coming into...
Beware doping athletes! This sensor may be your downfall
Credit: University at Buffalo. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Scientists searching for traces of drugs, bomb-making components and other chemicals often shine...
