TAMPA, Fla (Nov. 8, 2021) -- Neuroinflammatory diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury, have been linked to deposits of a tough protein known...
All vertebrates have the same basic body plan: head, spine, four appendages. Those appendages vary greatly in size, shape, and function, of course — from...
Soils are home to diverse microbial communities that cycle nutrients, support agriculture, and trap carbon – an important service for climate mitigation. Globally, around 80%...
Researchers leading a worldwide clinical trial aimed at finding treatments for Alzheimer’s disease are modifying an arm of the trial to evaluate a combination of...
Over the last decade, John Huntley, a paleontologist and an associate professor of geological sciences at the University of Missouri, has studied the history of...
DALLAS (November 4, 2021) – Tuesday evening, the Center for BrainHealth® brought together a who’s who of academic leaders, scientists and philanthropists to honor Dr....
Yellow fever is a non-contagious viral disease with two transmission cycles, sylvatic (in wild animals) and urban. Sylvatic yellow fever circulates among monkeys, and in...
Cut off the head of a three-banded panther worm and another will take its place — mouth, brain, and all. Cut off its tail and...
Three-banded panther worms are an incredibly impressive marine animal. Known scientifically as the acoel worm named Hofstenia miamia, these tiny animals that grow to only...
Prurigo nodularis (PN) is a chronic skin disease that affects an estimated 72 out of 100,000 people in the U.S. The disease disproportionately affects Black...
Scientists in Australia have used tin mono-sulfide (SnS) nanosheets to create the thinnest X-ray detector ever made, potentially enabling real-time imaging of cellular biology.Credit: Exciton...
By signing with the scholarly publisher and technology provider Pensoft, Contributions to Entomology - a journal by the Senckenberg German Entomological Institute - becomes the...
Stem cells are true multi-talents. They can develop into any cell type of an organism - in humans there are over 200 - and thus...
The membranes of cancer cells are more pliant than the membranes of normal cells. A research collaboration has discovered that cancer invasion and migration can...
Ischemia, which in modern Latin means, “staunching of blood,” is a medical condition in which the blood supply is cut off to different parts of...
