Long-suspected turbocharger for memory found in brain cells of mice
NEW YORK – Scientists have long known that learning requires the flow of calcium into and out of brain cells. But researchers at Columbia's Zuckerman...
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Rapid adaptation in fruit flies
Think evolution is a slow, gradual process? Tell that to fruit flies. In a new report in Science, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania used...
How do social interactions conjure up memories and emotional responses in the brain?
Has a song ever reminded you of the past, and unexpectedly surfaced emotions associated with that specific experience or person from your memory? Does walking...
Researchers put a spotlight on aggressive cancer cells
Metastases in cancer are often caused by a few abnormal cells. These behave more aggressively than the other cancer cells in a tumour. Miao-Ping Chien...
Pusan National University scientists discover why women are more resistant to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease than men
One of the most common disorders globally, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a leading cause of death worldwide. Its progressive form, called “nonalcoholic steatohepatitis”...
From urine to kidney: from understanding acute kidney injury in the Petri dish
By filtering waste products and toxins from the urine, the kidney is one of the most important players in human metabolism. It is estimated that...
Aspects of Asian elephants’ social life are related to their amount of stress hormones
An international team of scientists found that sociality is linked to stress in Asian elephants. For example, loneliness increased male elephants’ level of stress, whereas...
A gene could prevent Parkinson’s disease
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the destruction of a specific population of neurons: the dopaminergic neurons. The degeneration of these neurons prevents...
One bird’s joy is another bird’s sorrow
Ruffs are characterized by three supergene variants that lead to different appearances and courtship behavior in males. Whether these variants affect females was previously unknown....
Rare monkey adapts to fragmented habitat by dieting and reducing activity
A team of scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Oxford Brookes University found that a rare species of monkey in Bolivia has adapted...
ERC Consolidator Grant to Gregor Mendel Institute researcher Yasin Dagdas
Yasin Dagdas, Group Leader at the Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, is awarded a Consolidator Grant...
NIH-funded research to investigate lower jaw development
How the lower jaw — mandible — develops and consequently how and why some developmental birth defects occur is the focus of a five-year, $2.8...
Zhang is co-editor of book on advances in heart bioengineering
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Twenty years ago, clinicians first attempted to regenerate a failing human heart by injecting muscle myoblasts into the heart during a bypass...
Blood test may indicate higher risk pregnancies in patients with COVID-19
A small preliminary study from Northwestern Medicine has shown that a blood test may identify risk of stillbirth and placentitis in pregnant individuals who have...
Performance of elite show-jumping horses reveals that faults are predictable, and are most likely at jumps with water and fences in combination
Performance of elite show-jumping horses reveals that faults are predictable, and are most likely at jumps with water and fences in combinationCredit: Markus Spiske, Unsplash,...
