Biology
How nature, nurture shape the sleeping brain
Credit: Rusterholz et al., JNeurosci (2018) Some patterns of electrical activity generated by the brain during sleep are inherited, according...
Parasite makes quick exit when researchers remove the handbrake
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia Melbourne researchers have discovered a way to halt the invasion of the toxoplasmosis-causing...
Children found capable of using the ‘wisdom of crowds’
Children, like adults, can improve their response to difficult tasks by the power of group work, new research led by...
USDA grants $4.97 million for research evaluating snowpack and water allocation
Credit: University of Nevada, Reno RENO, Nev. - Mountain snowpack is a primary source of water for the arid western...
Renewed project could protect environment for millennia
Credit: Clemson University A team that has included more than 85 researchers from three South Carolina universities is receiving $2...
How will climate change stress the power grid? Hint: Look at dew point temperatures
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A new study suggests the power industry is underestimating how climate change could affect the long-term demand...
Why it doesn’t get dark when you blink
Credit: Caspar M. Schwiedrzik Every five seconds we close our eyes and blink to moisten them. During this brief moment...
Research forecasts US among top nations to suffer economic damage from climate change
For the first time, researchers have developed a data set quantifying what the social cost of carbon--the measure of the...
Burst of morning gene activity tells plants when to flower
Credit: Akane Kubota For angiosperms -- or flowering plants -- one of the most important decisions facing them each year...
Mitochondrial diseases could be treated with gene therapy, study suggests
Researchers have developed a genome editing tool for the potential treatment of mitochondrial diseases: serious and often fatal conditions which...
How a molecular signal helps plant cells decide when to make oil
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--A study at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory identifies new details of...
NSF awards $15 million to understand how humans can better interact with the environment
Credit: WV DEP A toxic red tide, or harmful algae bloom, is killing swaths of marine life and affecting the...
Mosquitoes that can carry malaria eliminated in lab experiments
The team from Imperial College London were able to crash caged populations of the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae in...
Does our environment affect the genes in our brains?
Is there a link between differences in IQ test performance and the activity of certain genes? Researchers from Charité -...
A new remedy for celiac disease
Credit: TU Wien Celiac disease is a fairly common disease, affecting one to two percent of the European population. It...
Call for new approaches to fill significant gaps in understanding Parkinson’s disease
Credit: CIPhotos WASHINGTON, DC (September 24, 2018)--Analysis published in Drug Discovery Today reveals the gap between animal models of Parkinson's...
Dosimetry and toxicity studies of a sulfonamide derivative of Sulforhodamine 101
Background The SR101 N-(3-Fluoropropyl) sulfonamide (SRF101) is a Sulforhodamine 101 (SR101) derivative that was previously synthesised by our group. The...
Lancaster professor to research how genes affect quitting smoking
Credit: Lancaster University The Canadian Institute of Health Research has awarded $929,475 to Professor Jo Knight of Lancaster Medical School,...
Weight loss can be boosted fivefold thanks to novel mental imagery technique
Credit: University of Plymouth Overweight people who used a new motivational intervention called Functional Imagery Training (FIT) lost an average...
Stepfathers’ ‘Cinderella effect’ challenged by new study
Long-held assumptions that stepfathers are far more likely to be responsible for child deaths than genetic parents have been challenged...
