How one marine chemistry lab slashed their carbon footprint
Laboratories may consume large quantities of plastics, generate waste, and emit greenhouse gases. A report published in PLOS Sustainability and Transformation by Jane Kilcoyne and...
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Feeding small fish to people instead of to farmed salmon could make seafood production more sustainable
Farming Atlantic salmon requires a high volume of wild-caught fish as feed, but produces only a small percentage of the world’s farmed fish supply. A...
WVU researcher finds over-the-counter meds a ‘needle in the haystack’ of the larger pain pill epidemic
Drug misuse is not exclusive to the opioid epidemic, according to a recent West Virginia Universitystudy. Every year, about 50,000 people in the United States are...
Irish-led €10 million project launches to deliver ‘precision medicine’ for Motor Neuron Disease
An ambitious academic, clinical and industry research programme supported by a €5 million funding grant from Science Foundation Ireland, which will be leveraged with an...
Small water samples can find really big animals
A team of scientists used an emerging genetic tool that analyzes DNA in water samples to detect whales and dolphins in New York waters.Credit: Julie...
The role of lipids in the development of Alzheimer’s disease
Neurons in the brain coexist with and rely on many other cell types to function properly. Astrocytes, which take their name from their star shape,...
Three critical factors in the end-Permian mass extinction
The end of the Permian was characterized by the greatest mass extinction event in Earth’s history. 252 million years ago, a series of volcanic eruptions...
Milk may exacerbate MS symptoms
The prompt for the study came from MS patients: "We hear again and again from sufferers that they feel worse when they consume milk, cottage...
Intestinal cells change functions during their lives
Intestinal cells can change specializations during their lives. The BMP signaling pathway – an important communication mechanism between cells – appears to be the driver...
Scientists reveal how chronic liver injury causes bone loss
A research team led by Prof. CHEN Di from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences along with other...
Targeting necroptosis for inflammatory myopathies
A new study has suggested that treatment to target necroptosis in muscle fibers using a necroptosis inhibitor lessens myositis-induced muscle weakness as well as muscle...
Discarded disposable face masks pose a threat to marine life
Disposable face masks could be harmful to wildlife, according to researchers who have observed harmful effects of the masks on keystone marine animals in coastal...
Protein protects brain cells most impacted by glaucoma
AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 1, 2022) — A ubiquitous protein called sigma 1 receptor, which is known to protect cells from stress, appears key to the...
Noble False Widow Spider captures bats in the attic
Scientists from the Ryan Institute in NUI Galway have published the first record of a Noble False Widow spider feeding on a protected species of...
Scaling laws in enzymes may help predict life ‘as we don’t know it.’
The only references we have for “life” are the forms we know on Earth. Astrobiologists suspect that the search for alien life, and even for...
