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Maryland scientists crack blue crab’s genetic code

BALTIMORE, MD (October 4, 2021)— Scientists at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science have sequenced the genome of the blue crab. The best...

Story tips: Carbon goes to space, cybersecurity put to the test, fusion’s power trip, cost-cutting controls and fungal infusion

Manufacturing – Carbon goes to spaceCredit: ORNL, Sandia/U.S. Dept. of Energy Manufacturing – Carbon goes to space Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed a...

Apple cross sections at different stages of growth

How apples get their shapes

Apples are among the oldest and most recognizable fruits in the world. But have you ever really considered an apple’s shape? Apples are relatively spherical...

The case of the aquarium’s disappearing medicine

For months, veterinarians put medicine into the animals’ quarantine habitats at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, ensuring that animals entering the building did not bring dangerous pests...

Remarkable differences between the young and aged splenic environment

Aging-US: Cellular senescence in lymphoid organs and immunosenescence

Aging-US published "Cellular senescence in lymphoid organs and immunosenescence" which reported that immunosenescence is a multi-faceted phenomenon at the root of age-associated immune dysfunction.Credit: Correspondence to:...

University of Montana studies how climate change could undermine biodiversity conservation goals

MISSOULA – In a new study published in the journal Communications, Earth & Environment, University of Montana researchers and colleagues explore how climate change could...

Genome Research Single-cell Genomics Special Issue

Genome Research publishes a special issue in Single-cell Genomics

October 1, 2021 – Genome Research (https://genome.org) publishes a special issue highlighting novel advances and insights in Single-cell Genomics.Credit: Cover artwork © Victor O. Leshyk, 2021, www.victorleshyk.com....

Scientists discover 14 genes that cause obesity

Promising news in the effort to develop drugs to treat obesity: University of Virginia scientists have identified 14 genes that can cause and three that...

Experts to showcase cutting-edge research at flagship hepatology congress

EASL’s International Liver Congress™ (ILC) 2022 will be taking place in London, UK, 6–10 April 2022. Delegates can attend in person or remotely. This first-in-class,...

Vibrio cholerae’s growth and competition on natural surfaces.

War in the gut: How human microbiota resist the cholera bacterium

Cholera is still an enormous problem. An acute diarrheal disease, there have been seven major pandemics in the last two hundred years. According to the WHO,...

Lovro Nuić, Jakov Lovrić, Ana-Sunčana Smith

Researchers shed new light on mechanical regulation of epithelial tissue homeostasis

An international team of scientists, led by Professor Ana-Sunčane Smith from the Croatian Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) and the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany, provided...

Wildfire bees on the brink

The number of threatened Australian native bee species is expected to increase by nearly five times after the devastating Black Summer bushfires in 2019-20, new...

Early accumulation of tau in the brain predicts memory decline in Alzheimer’s disease

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have compared how well different Alzheimer’s biomarkers predict the progression of the disease and its effect on the memory....

New treatment for inflammatory bowel disease: Opioids may cure that “bad gut feeling”