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New Alzheimer’s disease findings to be shared at international conference
WHAT: The conference will review the most important and promising developments in Alzheimer's disease research. It encourages the exchange of...
Small but mighty: Tiny proteins with big roles in biology
Credit: MIT/Yale LA JOLLA--(December 5, 2016) We all know how hard it is to find something small like a dropped...
Lawnmowers of the sea
Credit: Credit: Emily Kelly/Scripps Grazing on algae is a full-time job for a highly specialized group of coral reef fish....
Female lemurs with color vision provide advantages for their group
AUSTIN, Texas -- Female lemurs with normal color vision, as well as their cohabitating colorblind group members, may have selective...
Cell Atlas launched at ASCB 2016 Meeting
San Francisco, Dec. 4, 2016: After the completion of the human genome in 2001, another major milestone was reached with...
PNNL supports White House efforts on soil
Credit: Photo courtesy of PNNL RICHLAND, Wash. - The Earth's soil is a very active but poorly understood ecosystem right...
An eye on young specialists’ success
Graduates from several medical and surgical specialties are having difficulty securing practice opportunities, especially in specialties dependent upon limited resources,...
Protecting babies from eczema with low-cost Vaseline
What if it was possible to prevent your child from getting eczema -- a costly, inflammatory skin disorder -- just...
Parenting classes benefit all, especially lower-income families
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Parenting education can improve the skills of every mom and dad and the behavior of all children,...
Resistance to drug of last resort found in farm animals in US
Washington, DC - Dec. 5, 2016 - Carbapenems are one of the most important classes of antibiotics used in humans,...
Fish fossils reveal how tails evolved, Penn professor finds
Credit: John Megahan Despite their obvious physical differences, elephants, lizards and trout all have something in common. They possess elongated,...
Gene editing yields tomatoes that flower and ripen weeks earlier
Credit: Lippman lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Using a simple and powerful genetic method to tweak genes native...
A new dead zone in the Indian Ocean could impact future marine nutrient balance
Credit: SDU Large areas of the global ocean, so called marine "dead zones" contain no oxygen and support microbial processes...
Age of world’s worshipers could shape global issues
NEW YORK (December 5, 2016)--The relative portion of older adherents to the world's religions will shift in the coming decades,...
3-D solutions to energy savings in silicon power transistors
Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology In electronics, lower power consumption leads to operation cost savings, environmental benefits and the convenience...
Safer, less vulnerable software is the goal of new NIST computer publication
Credit: Hanacek / NIST We can create software with 100 times fewer vulnerabilities than we do today, according to computer...
$434,000 to environmental humanities
Credit: Stefan Holgersson The Seed Box, Sweden's largest research programme in the environmental humanities, is now allocating grants to researchers,...
Availability of human food shortens and disrupts bears’ hibernation
Credit: Journal of Zoology With winter approaching, bears all over the world are getting ready to hibernate. New research suggests...
Protein synthesis: Ribosome recycling as a drug target
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich researchers have elucidated a mechanism that recycles bacterial ribosomes stalled on messenger RNAs that lack termination...
Flowers use physics to attract pollinators
Credit: New Phytologist A new review indicates that flowers may be able to manipulate the laws of physics, by playing...
