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Researchers have developed a methodology for quantifying landscape changes on barrier islands and, in doing so, have found the storms that can devastate human infrastructure...

How high-fat diets allow cancer cells to go unnoticed

A high-fat diet increases the incidence of colorectal cancer. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Fellow Semir Beyaz and collaborators from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered...

Engineered Drug Delivery of Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Therapy

Researchers report on new way to deliver healing stem cells to kidney injury patients

Durham, NC – Scientists are reporting promising results in the early stages of a clinical trial designed to gauge the feasibility of a new type...

Bird poop reveals that when birds migrate, their gut bacteria change

The trillions of bacteria living in our guts play a crucial role in our ability to digest food and fight off disease. All other animals...

Sufia, grassroot organisation member, checking a patient with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic

“They do not care about us. They have forgotten us.” New research shows disability organisations were ‘unsung heroes’ of the COVID-19 pandemic

Three new publications by Inclusive Futures have revealed how people with disabilities were not only disproportionately and ‘catastrophically’ excluded from COVID-19 pandemic planning and relief...

Creating order by mechanical deformation in dense active matter

Living or biological systems cannot be easily understood using the standard laws of physics, such as thermodynamics, as scientists would for gases, liquids or solids....

Indigenous people and tropical forests: Lessons from the anthropocene

Tropical forests are some of the most threatened ecosystems on Earth, largely due to recent human activities. To better understand how tropical forests responded to...

Restoration of FLT-3 speciific cytotoxcity despite AGP binding

Experimental drug development approach points to better targeted therapies for treatment-resistant leukemia

New research from Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center investigators shows why some drugs in clinical trials for treating a form of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) often fail...

Dinosaurs’ ascent driven by volcanoes powering climate change

The rise of dinosaurs coincided with environmental changes driven by major volcanic eruptions over 230 million years ago, a new study reveals.Credit: Pixabay The rise...

Male giraffes are more socially connected than females

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Although female giraffes have closer “friends” than male giraffes, male giraffes have more “acquaintances” than females, according to a new study by...

Watching SARS-CoV-2 spread in animal models in real time

SAN ANTONIO (September 27, 2021) – A version of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, has been successfully modified to glow brightly in cells and animal...

Wireless implantable optoelectronic device for optogenetics

New wireless photoelectric implant controls the activity of spinal neurons

Grégoire Courtine doesn’t hesitate to use the word “revolutionary” when describing the emerging field of optogenetics – a technology that uses pulses of light to...

Answering a century-old question on the origins of life

The missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet, developed by two researchers in Japan to...

Prestigious award for the pioneers of optogenetics

Dieter Oesterhelt from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Peter Hegemann from Humboldt University and the U.S. American Karl Deisseroth from Stanford University will receive...

25-million-year-old ancient eagle ruled the roost in Australia