Biology
UTA researchers find cheaper, less energy-intensive way to purify ethylene
Credit: UTA Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have filed a provisional patent application on a new copper...
Identification of mechanisms of pesticide resistance in cattle ticks
Credit: Guilherme Marcondes Klafke The cattle tick is controlled by pesticides, invariably leading to the selection of resistant strains. In...
Visualizing ‘unfurling’ microtubule growth
Living cells depend absolutely on tubulin, a protein that forms hollow tube-like polymers, called microtubules, that form scaffolding for moving...
Synthetic DNA-delivered antibodies protect against Ebola in preclinical studies
PHILADELPHIA -- (Nov. 13, 2018) -- Scientists at The Wistar Institute and collaborators have successfully engineered novel DNA-encoded monoclonal antibodies...
Biodiversity Data Journal in Science Citation Index Expanded & Journal Citation Reports
Credit: Biodiversity Data Journal Nearly five years after the launch of the innovative, open access scholarly venue, designed to accelerate...
Biodiversity Data Journal in Science Citation Index Expanded & Journal Citation Reports
Credit: Biodiversity Data Journal Nearly five years after the launch of the innovative, open access scholarly venue, designed to accelerate...
Rising sea levels may build, rather than destroy, coral reef islands
Credit: Holly East Rising global sea levels may actually be beneficial to the long-term future of coral reef islands, such...
Chinese satellites provide advanced solutions to modeling small particles
Credit: Xiaohu HUANG The assimilation of aerosol optical depth (AOD) observational data from the Chinese satellite Fengyun-3A (FY-3A) can significantly...
Scientists uncover crucial biological circuits that regulate lipids and their role in overall health
Credit: JD Howell, McMaster University Tiny microscopic worms, invisible to the naked eye, are helping scientists to better understand an...
Fish recognize their prey by electric colors
Credit: © Maik Dobiey/Uni Bonn The African elephantnose fish generates weak electrical pulses to navigate its environment. This localization sense...
Popular science helps to discover the abundance of this jellyfish
Credit: Darius Enayati When the Rhizostoma luteum jellyfish was discovered at the beginning of the 19th century in the waters...
Novel mechanism of immune activation in HIV-exposed, seronegative people who inject drugs
PHILADELPHIA -- (Nov. 13, 2018) -- According to new research from The Wistar Institute, the S100A14 protein is expressed at...
‘Scaring’ soybeans into defensive mode yields better plants a generation later
Credit: Stephen Kirkpatrick, USDA National Resource Conservation Service By temporarily silencing the expression of a critical gene, researchers fooled soybean...
Carbon goes with the flow
Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - Many people see the carbon cycle as vertical - CO2 moving up...
New transgenic rat model may enable better understanding of amyloid buildup in cerebral blood vessels
Credit: The American Journal of Pathology Philadelphia, November 13, 2018 - In a report in The American Journal of Pathology...
The first cave-dwelling centipede from southern China
Credit: Hui-qin Ma Chinese scientists recorded the first cave-dwelling centipede known so far from southern China. To the amazement of...
Natatanuran frogs used the Indian Plate to step-stone disperse and radiate across the Indian Ocean
Credit: ©Science China Press The Late Mesozoic breakup of Gondwana triggered major biotic exchanges between Laurasia and Gondwanan landmasses that...
Fish’s brain size influenced by habitat, new University of Guelph study reveals
(University of Guelph) This is the first known study to connect habitat with varying brain size in a single lake...
Short stature in rainforest hunter-gatherers potentially linked to cardiac adaptations
Credit: Photo courtesy of George Perry/Penn State African and Asian rainforest hunter-gatherers share short stature, and now an international team...
At African Ministerial Summit, IPBES experts detail continent’s critical biodiversity challenges
The threat today to African plants, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and large mammals is unprecedented, caused by a range of...
