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Researchers working on blood test to detect brain metastases while still treatable
Credit: Houston Methodist Houston Methodist cancer researchers are now closer to creating a blood test that can identify breast cancer...
Wildlife royalties — a future for conservation?
Should people who profit from the cultural representation of wildlife pay towards conservation? That is the question asked in new...
Drug safety for penguins
Credit: Thinkstock Researchers from the University's Institute of Translational Medicine have determined the most effective drug dose to help penguins...
How do birds get their colors?
Credit: Ismael Galvan Birds' feathers, or plumage, are some of the most strikingly variable animal characteristics that can be observed...
Cell aging in lung epithelial cells
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Pulmonary fibrosis can possibly be attributed to a kind of...
New biosensor stimulates sweat even when patient is resting and cool
Credit: Dottie Stover/UC Creative Services One downside to medical sensors that test human sweat: you have to sweat. Sweating from...
Materials governed by light
Credit: Rebeca Sola. UPV/EHU Hybrid materials are those that combine components of differing origins (organic and inorganic) in order to...
Desert tortoises can’t take the heat of roadside fencing
Credit: J. Mark Peaden/UC Davis Desert tortoises pace back and forth and can overheat by roadside fencing meant to help...
Molecular biologists discover an active role of membrane lipids in health and disease
Credit: Robert Ernst All living cells that grow and divide have a constant demand for producing new proteins and new...
$3.2 million grant to The Jackson Laboratory for study of new ALS candidate gene
A new five-year federal research grant totaling $3,322,009 to The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) will fund studies of a new mouse...
New model for bimolecular reactions in nanoreactors
Credit: HZB Nanoreactors are tiny systems which facilitate specific chemical reactions, as a catalyst does. Many are found in biological...
Seasonal effects: ‘Winter foals’ are smaller than foals born in summer
Credit: Juliane Kuhl/Vetmeduni Vienna Seasonal and diurnal rhythms determine the life cycle of many animal species. In equids this is...
Prior dengue or yellow fever exposure does not worsen zika infection in monkeys
Rhesus macaques previously infected with dengue or yellow fever viruses appear to be neither more nor less susceptible to severe...
New therapeutic approaches for musculoskeletal diseases highlighted in tissue engineering
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 4, 2017--In a forthcoming special issue of Tissue Engineering on...
Cultural activities may influence the way we think
A new Tel Aviv University study suggests that cultural activities, such as the use of language, influence our learning processes,...
Tracing the path of Parkinson’s disease proteins
As neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease progress, misfolded proteins clump together in neurons, recruiting normal proteins in...
Technology tracks ‘bee talk’ to help improve honey bee health
Credit: SFU Simon Fraser University graduate student Oldooz Pooyanfar is monitoring what more than 20,000 honeybees housed in hives in...
Recreating the wild: De-extinction, technology, and the ethics of conservation
Is extinction forever? Efforts are under way to use gene editing and other tools of biotechnology to "recreate" extinct species...
UM researchers to study genome role in survival of plants, animals
MISSOULA - Understanding how wild animals and plants survive in changing environments is the focus of a new collaboration between...
Origin of human genus may have occurred by chance
An often cited claim that humans, who are smarter and more technologically advanced than their ancestors, originated in response to...
