Biology
Scientists restore youthful plasticity to the brains of adult mice
Credit: Elissa Pastuzyn Like much of the rest of the body, the brain loses flexibility with age, impacting the ability...
New ultrafast method for determining antibiotic resistance
Credit: Ă–zden Baltekina, et al Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method for very rapidly determining whether infection-causing...
Dopaminergic neurons derived from iPSCs in non-human primate model
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 8, 2017-Researchers have demonstrated the ability to generate dopaminergic neurons...
Laser mapping project shows effects of physical changes in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys
Credit: David Haney Researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) have publicly released high-resolution maps of Antarctica's McMurdo Dry...
An updated classification for freshwater crayfishes
A new paper published in the Journal of Crustacean Biology provides an updated classification system that includes all the known...
Newly discovered pathway for pain processing could lead to new treatments
The discovery of a new biological pathway involved in pain processing offers hope of using existing cancer drugs to replace...
New scanning process allows unprecedented look inside live insects
Credit: Danny Poinapen/Western University, London, Canada Until now, insects have been too wriggly to make good subjects for scientists wanting...
Extreme heat linked to climate change may adversely affect pregnancy
WASHINGTON, DC (Aug. 8, 2017) -- Pregnant women are an important but thus far largely overlooked group vulnerable to the...
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...
No longer water under the bridge, statistics yields new data on sea levels
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (August 8, 2017) - While the scientific community has long warned about rising sea levels and their destructive...
NSF funds new multidisciplinary approaches to study the brain
Credit: Homewood Photography The National Science Foundation (NSF) made 19 awards to cross-disciplinary teams from across the United States to...
UTA team brings robotic main inspections to Ennis
Credit: City of Arlington A collaboration between UTA and the city of Arlington using an underground robot to view sewer...
Sleep makes it possible for babies to associate words with content — and not with noise
Credit: MPI CBS While babies sleep, astonishing processes take place in their brains. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for...
Relieving antibiotic resistance: Researchers take steps toward new treatment for E. coli
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan. -- By understanding the functional differences between proteins expressed by two E. coli strains,...
A champion for plants
Native plants have a guardian angel in Susan Mazer. Her research as a botanist has furthered the conservation of some...