Frogs use brains or camouflage to evade predators
Throughout evolution, prey animals have adopted a range of strategies to evade their predators. But these oftentimes elaborate strategies come at a cost. For example,...
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“Nutri-Score” label may counter misleading sugar claims on groceries
A new analysis suggests that the Nutri-Score—a label indicating the overall nutritional quality of a food product—can counteract the misleading effects of sugar claims. Kristin...
Cellular waste may supercharge immune cell function
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (August 17, 2022) — The immune cells that protect us from infection and cancer seek out a wide array of fuel sources...
New research model illuminates how organs communicate with each other
LA JOLLA, CA—Our many different organ systems are in constant communication with each other. During exercise, for example, muscles send out signals to fat and...
Oncotarget | Kinase activity in renal cell carcinoma, benign renal tissue and in response to tyrosine kinase inhibitors
“Thus, the presented findings might provide options to select the most promising TKI for individual RCC patients prior to initiation of TKI-therapies.”Credit: Tahiri et al....
Dr. Boukrina of Kessler Foundation further investigates novel, reading-deficit treatments after sub-acute stroke with five-year, $675,000 grant
East Hanover, NJ – August 17, 2022 – Olga Boukrina, PhD, senior research scientist in the Center for Stroke Rehabilitation Research at Kessler Foundation, has...
Capturing high pressures in diamond capsules
Preservation of the high-pressure states of materials at ambient conditions is a long-sought-after goal for fundamental research and practical applications. A team of scientists led...
Grants Programme for Scientific Research 2022/2023 – applications until August 31
BIAL Foundation opens a new call of its Grants Programme for Scientific Research 2022/2023 in the areas of Psychophysiology and Parapsychology.Credit: BIAL Foundation BIAL Foundation opens...
How a Japanese herbal medicine protects the gut against inflammatory bowel disease
Zhengzheng Shi and colleagues at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan report the effects of a common herbal remedy on colitis,...
New principles for biological fieldwork will build equity for researchers and local communities
LAWRENCE — For hundreds of years, teams of biologists have carried out fieldwork around the globe, often trekking to remote places to collect specimens and...
Sleeping giant could end deep ocean life
A previously overlooked factor — the position of continents — helps fill Earth’s oceans with life-supporting oxygen. Continental movement could ultimately have the opposite effect,...
Scientists relieved to discover ‘curious’ creature with no anus is not earliest human ancestor
An international team of researchers have discovered that a mysterious microscopic creature from which humans were thought to descend is part of a different family...
New evidence proves saccorhytus is ecdysozoan
An international research team led by Dr. ZHANG Huaqiao from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) has...
Risk of volcano catastrophe ‘a roll of the dice’, say experts
The world is “woefully underprepared” for a massive volcanic eruption and the likely repercussions on global supply chains, climate and food, according to experts from...
Geosciences’ Shuhai Xiao part of international team to uncover surprising evolutionary secrets of microfossil Saccorhytus
One step forward, one step back for paleobiologists.Credit: Credit Shuhai Xiao. One step forward, one step back for paleobiologists. Shuhai Xiao, a paleobiologist with the Department...
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