The African BioGenome Project has partnered with Inqaba Biotechnical Industries to organise the Inqaba Biotec / African BioGenome Project Genome Challenge 2022. Credit: MSOMI Africa / Inqaba...
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have discovered that the neurotransmitter adenosine effectively acts as a brake to dopamine, another well-known neurotransmitter involved in...
Ice is continuously streaming off Greenland's melting glaciers at an accelerating rate, dramatically increasing global sea levels. New results published in Nature indicate that existing...
Malaria is a devastating disease caused by the Plasmodium parasite. After an infected mosquitos’ bite, the parasites travel to the liver and infect liver cells. This phase...
Cancer cells acquire genetic anomalies that allow them to grow and proliferate unchecked. Researchers have now found another difference between cancer cells and normal cells:...
Understanding how active, healthy ageing can be achieved is one of the most relevant problems today. Dogs can be used as model animals for studying...
General circulation models play an important role in researching and predicting climate change, and so assessing their performance as they are developed and refined is...
Atrial fibrillation is the greatest risk factor for stroke. Screening to detect atrial fibrillation in older people would not only increase the chance of preventing...
Pollinators are less likely to land on flowers sprayed with fertilisers or pesticides as they can detect electric field changes around the flower, researchers at...
Leesburg, VA, November 9, 2022—According to an accepted manuscript published in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), left ventricular global longitudinal strain—derived from feature tracking...
The alphabet was invented around 1800 BCE and was used by the Canaanites and later by most other languages in the world. Until recently, no...
Osaka, Japan - As the saying goes, when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and some medicines can work that...
The most detailed map ever made of the communication links between the hippocampus – the brain’s memory control centre – and the rest of the...
Bonn, November 8, 2022 - The innate immune system fights infectious agents. The alarm messenger interferon plays a central role in this. However, if it...
For centuries, Indigenous communities in the American Southwest imported colorful parrots from Mexico. But according to a study led by The University of Texas at...
