Biology
Plant polymers do not always act together to make beautiful shapes
Credit: Taku Demura Animals and plants are distinguished by many features, one of which is the cell wall. In plants,...
Turning cells against pancreatic cancer
Credit: CSHL/2018 Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Pancreatic cancer has a grim prognosis. It is usually detected after the disease...
Two-pronged approach — Novel combined therapy tackles excess fatty tissue
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) A new combined therapy for obesity and diabetes has been...
I will drink to that
Credit: Daisuke Watanabe Alcohol has been celebrated for all of history. The Ancient Greeks worshipped Dionysus for their spirits, while...
Brainwave activity reveals potential biomarker for autism in children
Credit: Kanazawa University Kanazawa, Japan - Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that can impair communication ability, socialization,...
SibFU scientists simulated the intracellular environment of a luminescent bacteria cell
Credit: Courtesy of Oleg Sutormin. A team from the Institute of Fundamental Biology and Biotechnology of SFU used glycerol and...
Bioactive novel compounds from endangered tropical plant species
Credit: Kanazawa University Background It is well known that natural products are valuable resources for drug discovery and development. In...
Loss of work productivity in a warming world
Credit: YU Shuang In recent years, surveys based on social-science studies have been well applied to quantify the impact of...
Biologists gain new insights into surface, acoustic behaviors of endangered right whales
Credit: Susan Parks, Syracuse University In response to the dwindling number of North Atlantic right whales, researchers in the College...
Kent State biologist wins grant to study neurological roots of chronic stress and fear
Credit: Kent State University Kent State Biologist Wins Grant to Study Neurological Roots of Chronic Stress and Fear People who...
IUPUI biologists use ‘mini retinas’ to better understand connection between eye and brain
Credit: Department of Biology, School of Science at IUPUI INDIANAPOLIS -- IUPUI biologists are growing 'mini retinas' in the lab...
Rice U. scientists uncover relationship between tremors, water at the Cascadia margin
Credit: Jonathan Delph/Rice University The earthquakes are so small and deep that someone standing in Seattle would never feel them....
Researchers observe novel bat behavior in Panama
Credit: Thomas Hiller Baby birds learn to fly. Baby mammals switch from milk to solid food. Baby bats, as winged...
CCNY finds K-core as a predictor of structural collapse in mutualistic ecosystems
A network metric called the K-core could predict structural collapse in mutualistic ecosystems, according to research by physicists at The...
Belgian researchers discover a novel method to block immunosuppression in cancer
Belgian research groups from the UCLouvain and WELBIO, VIB and Ghent University, and the biotechnology company argenx elucidated the three-dimensional...
CCNY study breaks Förster resonant energy transfer (FRET) distance limit
(City College of New York) Using engineered nanocomposite structures called metamaterials, a City College of New York-led research team reports...
Science Agora 2018
JST (President: Michinari Hamaguchi) will be holding Science Agora 2018 in the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan)...
Biomarkers facilitate early detection of glaucoma
The team headed by Dr. Jacqueline Reinhard and Prof. Dr. Andreas Faissner from the Department of Cell Morphology and Molecular...
Bacteria: Protein researchers decipher resistance mechanism
Credit: Milton Stubbs Worldwide, resistance to antibiotics is on the rise. In order to understand why bacteria are becoming immune...
ICTA-UAB to design participative and concurred forest fire prevention strategies
Scientists from the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) aim to design prevention...
