Steller’s sea cow was an extraordinary creature, an enormous, kelp-eating, cold-water relative of the dugong and manatees that was hunted to extinction within three decades...
A globally renowned expert in autoimmune diseases and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) at the University of Houston has identified potential biomarkers for neuropsychiatric symptoms of...
On Valentine’s Day, couples all over the world will enjoy romantic dinners to celebrate love and relationships. The association between nutrition and mating is not...
A cloud-based repository that creates a digital fingerprint of engineered microorganisms has been successfully trialled. Credit: Professor Natalio Krasnogor/Newcastle University, UK A cloud-based repository that creates...
High-resolution 3D study of pine pollen reveals nanofoams are key to surviving mass extinctionsCredit: ESRF/Stef Candé High-resolution 3D study of pine pollen reveals nanofoams are...
Philadelphia, February 9, 2022 -- Feeling lightheaded upon standing up due to initial orthostatic hypotension (IOH), or a transient decrease in blood pressure and increase...
In his book Wonderful Life, the late Stephen Jay Gould, former professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, popularized the “weird...
Covid-19 is often asymptomatic and can lead infected individuals to spread the disease without knowing it. Yet, regular surveillance testing of a community can catch...
SAN ANTONIO (February 8, 2022) – What is going on at the single-cell level in the first days of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the lungs?Credit: Texas Biomed...
The human body responds to stress, from the everyday to the extreme, by producing a hormone called cortisol.Credit: Yichao Zhao and Zhaoqing Wang/UCLA The human body responds...
A team of scientists led by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have discovered that disulfiram, an FDA-approved drug, prevents the immune system from producing toxic...
SPOKANE, Wash.—Research led by Washington State University scientists supports a novel theory that the innate immune system people are born with can respond differently to...
Tropical forests are being cleared for agriculture and other uses at alarming rates.Credit: Clemson University College of Science Tropical forests are being cleared for agriculture...
Culture environments of different cell types growing in culture vessels or Petri dishes vary significantly from each other and from conditions in the living body,...
Magnetometers measure the direction, strength or relative changes of magnetic fields, at a specific point in space and time. Employed in many research areas, magnetometers...
