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Credit: CNIO The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) today announced its 2017 Young Investigator (YI) Awards, which support early career scientists...

Iberian Peninsula rodents migrated due to climate change 12 million years ago

Credit: Oscar Sanisidro (Vertebrate Paleontology. Biodiversitiy Institute, University of Kansas) The oldest studied rodent fauna in this work, which inhabited...

UTA student receives NSF grant for research into ecological drivers of…

Credit: UTA Shannon Beston, a third-year Ph.D. student in biology at the University of Texas at Arlington, was selected to...

Change in protein production essential to muscle function

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have shed light on the process that guides the...

Special issue of Future Oncology explores the field of Oncofertility

Future Science Group (FSG) published journal, Future Oncology, has released a special issue that examines the field of oncofertility, which...

Some birds better than others at adjusting to habitat degradation

Credit: M.C. Sagario Before habitat degradation from impacts like grazing begins to cause population declines, the first response by wildlife...

Migration ranges of flying birds depend on body size and flight style

Credit: NIPR The decades-long tracking of flying birds reveals that body size and flight styles determine the scale of birds'...

Elderly who have trouble identifying odors face risk of dementia

Credit: Rob Kozloff, for the University of Chicago Medicine A long-term study of nearly 3,000 adults, aged 57 to 85,...

Four synchronized planets reveal clues to how planets form

The search for planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy has revealed an extraordinary family of planets whose orbits are...

Scientists replace piece of gene mutated in Duchenne muscular dystrophy in effort to make healthy

Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Dec. 19, 2016) – Scientists are using "gene scissors" to cut off the code of...

New study reveals air pollution can alter effectiveness of antibiotics

Credit: University of Leicester Air pollution can change the way bacteria behave and can change their potential to cause disease...

Why studying sugars matters in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease

Credit: GlycoNet (February 9, 2018 – EDMONTON) Two GlycoNet Investigators are using technology to better understand how sugars in the...

New hope for critically endangered Myanmar snub-nosed monkey

Credit: (c) Shaohua Dong The species was discovered in Myanmar in 2010 by Ngwe Lwin, a local scientist working for...

Efficient technique discovered for isolating embryonic stem cells in cows

Credit: Pablo Ross / UC Davis For more than 35 years, scientists have tried to isolate embryonic stem cells in...

Leading nutrition experts speak up about malnutrition

Philadelphia, PA, April 27, 2016 – As we better understand the role food plays in our overall health and wellbeing,...

Mutation speeds up sperm of zebra finches

Credit: MPI f. Ornithology In zebra finches, sperm velocity and morphology and hence reproductive success strongly depend on a specific...

Deciphering potent DNA toxin’s secrets

Credit: Elwood Mullins, Vanderbilt University One of the most potent toxins known acts by welding the two strands of the...

Causative gene for sensorineural hearing loss identified

Credit: Kobe University A causative gene for a highly common type of hearing loss (sensorineural hearing loss, or SNHL) has...

CWRU researcher scaling up knotty polymer research