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Livestock production, a much smaller challenge to global food security…
Credit: GLEAM 2.0 Philadelphia, PA, September 11, 2017 – Humans face mounting challenges when it comes to finding ways to...
First validated canine behavioral genetics findings of nine fear and aggression traits in…
Anxiety disorders are the most common type of mental illness in the United States. And while much is understood about...
Researchers discover that human hair and nails can tell toxic secrets
Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Chemicals used as flame retardants that are potentially harmful to humans are found in...
Study reveals interplay of an African bat, a parasite and a virus
Credit: Tony Goldberg, UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. — If there is anything scientists are certain of when it comes to bats...
Wine snobbery: Fact vs. fiction (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2017 — We all know at least one wine snob who goes...
Confronted with sepsis, key immune mechanism breaks, Indiana…
INDIANAPOLIS – When the body encounters an infection, a molecular signaling system ramps up the body's infection-fighting system to produce...
Matching up fruit flies, mushroom toxins and human health
Credit: Thomas Werner Pulling data from 180 different lines of fruit flies, researchers from Michigan Technological University compared resistance to...
Cornell professors to launch NSF-funded space experiments
Credit: Cornell University For two Cornell engineering professors, the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory is basically a high-powered microscope...
HKU Professor Kenneth Leung conferred as a Fellow SETAC
Credit: The University of Hong Kong On 12 November 2017, Professor Kenneth Leung Mei-yee of the Swire Institute of Marine...
Rockefeller University’s Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., named 2016…
Credit: Mario Morgado/The Rockefeller University. Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., whose innovative use of reverse genetics has helped redefine the study of...
Game theory shows how tragedies of the commons might be averted
Credit: Credit: Ed Jackson Lake Lanier in Georgia is the primary water reservoir serving suburban and metropolitan Atlanta. When the...
Wolf behaviour undeterred by tailings ponds and pit mines
Credit: Wildlife Habitat Effectiveness and Connectivity, 2014 EDMONTON (Wednesday, August 30, 2017)–Wolves do not avoid areas of human disturbance when...
Citrus scion/rootstock combinations show tolerance to huanglongbing
FORT PIERCE, FL – The citrus disease huanglongbing (HLB) is endemic in Florida, where it is estimated that more than...
As scientists take to Twitter, study shows power of ‘visual abstract’ graphics
Credit: University of Michigan/Annals of Surgery ANN ARBOR, MI – When it comes to sharing new research findings with the...
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