Researchers have developed a potential super wheat for salty soils
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed several new varieties of wheat that tolerate soils with higher salt concentrations. After having mutated a wheat...
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Snake trade in Indonesia is not sustainable enough — but it could be
Wildlife trade is a multi-million dollar industry. While some animals are traded legally, in compliance with legislation that aims to protect populations, wildlife trafficking continues...
Biocompatible binary hologram with drug-elution capabilities
Holographic devices are used for security enhancement, entertainment, 3D display technologies and augmented reality but not limited to them. Due to their high information capacity,...
Dietary cholesterol worsens inflammation, sickness in mice with influenza
URBANA, Ill. – New research from the University of Illinois suggests high levels of dietary cholesterol make mice sicker when infected with influenza. The study...
Can we prevent antibiotic resistance?
Antibiotics have saved countless lives since they were introduced in the 1940s, curing infections and making procedures like chemotherapy and surgeries safer. But their effectiveness...
Scientists devise method to prevent deadly hospital infections without antibiotics
A hospital or medical clinic might be the last place you’d expect to pick up a nasty infection, but approximately 1.7 million Americans do each...
Using everyday WiFi to help robots see and navigate better indoors
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a low cost, low power technology to help robots accurately map their way indoors, even...
Bird flu is driven by ecologically diverse species, with wild ducks, gulls, geese, and poultry playing a role in global spread
Article URL: http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1010062 Credit: Wendy Puryear, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL: http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1010062 Article Title: Ecological divergence of wild birds drives avian influenza spillover and global spread...
Avian influenza: How it’s spreading and what to know about this outbreak
When it comes to avian influenza, more commonly known as bird flu, all birds are not created equal. Credit: Alonso Nichols/Tufts University When it comes to...
Genetic predictability steadily erodes during evolution, new study shows
A critical goal in genetics and evolution is predicting the effects of mutations that may happen in the future and inferring the effects of those...
Some people fared better than others during COVID-19 pandemic due to genetics
Everyone has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but a new study by Lude Franke and colleagues of the University of Groningen, Netherlands finds that...
Genetic risk scores help predict type 2 diabetes in people of south Asian origin, study finds
Combining a genetic risk score with a clinical risk score improved the prediction of type 2 diabetes in British Pakistani and British Bangladeshi individuals, especially...
Discovery of ‘ghost’ fossils reveals plankton resilience to past global warming events
An international team of scientists from UCL (University College London), the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Natural History Museum (London) and the University of Florence...
Repurposed antibiotic may be an effective therapeutic in COVID-19 infected mice
Repurposed drugs may have a speedier path to clinical use because they have already been shown to be safe in people. A study publishing May...
Paleontologists have discovered the jaws of a rare bear in Taurida Cave
A group of paleontologists, included researchers from the Ural Federal University (UrFU), discovered the jaws of an Etruscan bear from the early Pleistocene period (2–1.5...
