Biology
European eels – one gene pool fits all
Credit: Anders Asp, SLU European eels spawn in the subtropical Sargasso Sea but spend most of their adult life in...
Type 2 Diabetes: New Evidence Underlines the Role of Obesity in Late Complications
Credit: Source: DIfE Successful weight loss is considered to be an integral part of the therapy for type 2 diabetes....
Brazilian dam collapse could have been predicted with right monitoring technology
Credit: Google Earth One of Brazil's worst environmental disasters - a dam collapse that also killed more than 200 people...
Balancing brain cell activity
Specialized sites within nerve cells are responsible for a rapid balancing of the amount of activity in the brain.Credit: Netherlands...
Getting shapes into numbers
A mathematical framework enables accurate characterization of shapesCredit: MPI-MP, Jacqueline Nowak In nature, many things have evolved that differ in...
Climate-related species extinction possibly mitigated by newly discovered effect
According to a new study, future climate-related species extinction could be less severe than predictions based only on the current...
New tool for assessing the benefits, risks and sustainability of the consumption of fish
Researchers from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona) have optimised the website FishChoice, which helps to consume fish and seafood...
Fish sex organs boosted under high-CO2
Credit: Southern Seas Ecology Laborator Research from the University of Adelaide has found that some species of fish will have...
How cells ‘eat’ their own fluid components
Credit: Nature Autophagy is a fundamental cellular process by which cells capture and degrade their own dysfunctional or superfluous components...
Cancer can be precisely diagnosed using a urine test with artificial intelligence
Successful precision cancer diagnosis through an AI analysis of multiple factors of prostate cancer. Potential application of the precise diagnoses...
Antibiotic resistance may spread even more easily than expected
Credit: Jan Zrimec/Chalmers University of Technology Pathogenic bacteria in humans are developing resistance to antibiotics much faster than expected. Now,...
New starfish-like fossil reveals evolution in action
Credit: Collections of the Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 Researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered a fossil of...
Deep sleep takes out the trash
Waste clearance is crucial for brain health, preventing neurodegenerative diseaseCredit: Ravi Allada/Northwestern University A new Northwestern University study reaffirms the...
NIH researchers identify new genetic disorder that affects brain, craniofacial skeleton
Analysis of patients with rare condition uncovers key pathway for human developmentCredit: Werner lab, NIDCR Researchers at the National Institutes...
Cats love silver vine and catnip for a more practical reason than developing euphoria
Cats use the plants to repel mosquitoesCredit: Masao Miyazaki & Reiko Uenoyama Catnip and silver vine have been known as...
Unlocking ‘the shape of water’ in mechanisms of antibiotic resistance
New images first to show water molecule present in drug-resistant bacteria modelsCredit: Jenny Fontaine/UIC New high-resolution structures of the bacterial...
Disease threatens to decimate western bats
White-nose syndrome predicted to drastically impact hibernating bat species in the WestCredit: Kim Raff BOZEMAN, Montana (January 19, 2021) -...
With a little help from their friends, older birds breed successfully
Credit: Martijn Hammers, University of Groningen The offspring of older animals often have a lower chance of survival because the...
Study identifies a nonhuman primate model that mimics severe COVID-19 similar to humans
New research published in The American Journal of Pathology suggests that aged African green monkeys may be suitable models for...
A new carbon budget framework provides a clearer view of our climate deadlines
Concordia's Damon Matthews outlines a more comprehensive method of calculating how much CO2 we can emit and still meet Paris...
