Going against the flow: Scientists reveal garden eels’ unique way of feeding
Garden eels are the ultimate homebodies. Instead of swimming freely in the ocean, these eels anchor themselves into burrows in the sandy seabed, which they...
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New Jersey Health Foundation awards three grants to Kessler Foundation to advance cognitive and mobility research in neurological disabilities
East Hanover, NJ. July 20, 2022. Each year, New Jersey Health Foundation (NJHF) accepts applications for grants for research projects that demonstrate exciting potential to...
Mammals were not the first to be warm-blooded
Endothermy, or warm-bloodedness, is the ability of mammals and birds to produce their own body heat and control their body temperature. Credit: Luzia Soares Endothermy, or...
Human eggs remain healthy for decades by putting ‘batteries on standby mode’
Immature human egg cells skip a fundamental metabolic reaction thought to be essential for generating energy, according to the findings of a study by researchers...
New fossil shows four-legged fishapod that returned to the water while Tiktaalik ventured onto land
A meme has been circulating online during the pandemic featuring Tiktaalik roseae, the iconic, four-legged “fishapod” that first made the transition from water to land...
Making a memory positive or negative
LA JOLLA—(July 20, 2022) Researchers at the Salk Institute and colleagues have discovered the molecule in the brain responsible for associating good or bad feelings...
With just a tablespoon of blood, B.C. researchers aim to transform cancer treatment
Researchers at the Vancouver Prostate Centre have developed a new blood test that provides unprecedented insight into a patient’s cancer make-up, potentially allowing doctors to...
The size of mammal ancestors’ ear canals reveal when warm-bloodedness evolved
One of the things that makes mammals, mammals is that we’re warm-blooded-- our bodies have high metabolisms that maintain our internal temperature independent of our...
How to inhibit photoreceptor death? A new way to fight pigmentary retinopathy
Why do photoreceptors in the retina die? Can this process be inhibited? Research conducted by an international team of scientists, with the participation of Dr....
IVI and Moderna sign memorandum of understanding for vaccine research and development
July 20, 2022, SEOUL, Republic of Korea – The International Vaccine Institute (IVI), an international organization with a mission to discover, develop, and deliver safe,...
Melanoma thickness equally hard for algorithms and dermatologists to judge
Assessing the thickness of melanoma is difficult, whether done by an experienced dermatologist or a well-trained machine-learning algorithm. A study from the University of Gothenburg...
New findings reveal how neurons build and maintain their capacity to communicate
The nervous system works because neurons communicate across connections called synapses. They “talk” when calcium ions flow through channels into “active zones” that are loaded...
Learning to fight infection
Tokyo, Japan – Scientific advancements have often been held back by the need for high volumes of data, which can be costly, time-consuming, and sometimes...
Did our ancestors have better microbiomes? For maize, maybe!
At today’s backyard barbeques, we enjoy corn on the cob with hundreds of sweet juicy kernels. But if we were eating teosinte, the wild ancestor...
Climate and conflict
An extended period of turmoil in the prehistoric Maya city of Mayapan, in the Yucatan region of Mexico, was marked by population declines, political rivalries...
