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Following an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) in a flock of around 125 Muscovy ducks in a domestic setting in South West England...

Researchers aim to improve stroke recovery with new granular biomaterials

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that someone in the United States has a stroke every 40 seconds. Hundreds of thousands of people...

Lab of the VUB-Biology of the Testis research group, led by prof. Goossens

Approval for testicular re-implantation to restore fertility after childhood cancer treatment

The research group of Prof Dr Ellen Goossens (VUB) hopes to be the first in the world to re-implant previously removed testicular tissue in men...

Extraction of cell-free DNA from human plasma

Detecting Diagnostic DNA: A Microfluidic Gated Device for Extraction of Cell-free DNA

In the war against cancer, the first step towards treating them is an accurate diagnosis of the problem. A technique that helps plan a better...

Model of signaling processes for aerenchyma formation in wetland and upland plants

Underwater ‘breathing’ plants could be key to stress-resistant crops

Wetland plants have a high tolerance against flooding due to the formation of “lysigenous aerenchyma,” air channels that help transfer gases to the submerged roots....

Institutional research training grant core team

University of South Florida awarded five-year, $1.35 million NIH institutional grant to train scientists in vascular inflammation and injury research

TAMPA, Fla. (Feb. 4, 2022) -- The University of South Florida recently received a highly competitive National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutional Training Grant (Award...

Mosquitoes are seeing red: These new findings about their vision could help you hide from these disease vectors

Beating the bite of mosquitoes this spring and summer could hinge on your attire and your skin. New research led by scientists at the University...

Fluent speech is guided by a sensorimotor error-detection network in the brain

Research by Adeen Flinker and Müge Özker at New York University reports regions of the brain that signal when the speech we try to produce...

Improving air quality associated with slower cognitive decline in women

Improvements in air quality are associated with slower cognitive decline in women, according to a new study led by Diana Younan, of the University of...

Photoactive chloride pumping through the cell membrane captured by time-resolved serial crystallography

How to get chloride ions into the cell

Many bacteria and unicellular algae have light-driven pumps in their cell membranes: proteins that change shape when exposed to photons such that they can transport...

Sharp decline in reported severity of ocean acidification impacts on fish behaviour

As humans fill the atmosphere with excess carbon dioxide, much of it gets absorbed by the oceans, acidifying them—a potential concern for marine life. According...

Are scientists being fooled by bacteria?

For decades, a small group of cutting-edge medical researchers have been studying a biochemical, DNA tagging system, which switches genes on or off. Many have...

Capture the Fracture Map of Best Practice

Celebrating its 10th year, the Capture the Fracture network welcomes its 700th FLS

The International Osteoporosis Foundation’s (IOF) Capture the Fracture® program, which this year proudly marks a decade of operation, has welcomed the 700th post-fracture care coordination program (commonly...

The hallmarks of adipose tissue dysfunction

When it comes to obesity, the problem isn’t an excess of fat but its loss of function, researchers argue

Obesity is known to cause cardiometabolic diseases like hypertension and diabetes but attributing these diseases to merely an overabundance of fat is a simplification. On...

Silencing tool quashes gene activity across generations