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...
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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...
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 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,...
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,...
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”
Opioids are a class of substances that control sensations such as pain and emotions in animals. While plant-derived opioid narcotics such as morphine are the...
COVID-19 hospitalizations increase among unvaccinated pregnant women
Unvaccinated pregnant women are increasingly being hospitalized with COVID-19 during a nationwide surge of the Delta variant, according to research from UT Southwestern Medical Center.Credit:...
Salt stress alters legume responses to symbiotic rhizobacteria by modulating gene expression
Crop legumes are an integral part of sustainable agriculture, as several of these species represent an important protein source for both human and animal populations....
Pruning the dendritic tree
Researchers at the University of Bonn have shed light on the function of the enzyme SLK for the development of nerve cells in the brain....
