Sawfish fossils suggest teeth likely evolved from body scales in ancient fish
ERIE, Pa. — Scientists have long debated the origins of teeth. Did they evolve from body scales that migrated into the mouths of ancient vertebrates...
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Blood tests reveal gene expression changes in dolphins following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0272345Credit: NMMF/CARMMHA, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0272345 Article Title: Transcriptome profiling of blood from common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the northern...
Dogs with more active owners may get more exercise
A new, international study suggests that dog owners who spend more time exercising themselves tend to exercise their dogs more, and more active owners are...
Professor Diane Saunders named recipient of the 2022 Rosalind Franklin Award to promote women in wheat
Professor Diane Saunders is announced as the recipient of the 2022 Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture. The award recognises Professor Saunders’ long-term achievements...
A new kind of chemo
Chemotherapy sucks. The treatments generally have awful side effects, and it’s no secret that the drugs involved are often toxic to the patient as well...
Movement of the solar system through the Milky Way’s galactic spiral arms helped form Earth’s first continents
24 August 2022 The Geological Society of America Release no. 22-44 Contributed by Laura Fattaruso Contact: Kea Giles +1-303-357-1057 [email protected] Credit: Chris Kirkland and colleagues....
Danes lost 30.000 years of healthy life due to COVID-19 in the first year of the pandemic
COVID-19 has had an enormous health impact on societies all over the world. In Denmark, a total of 30,000 healthy years of life were lost...
Plant immune systems can adapt to non-living environmental stressors, a new study reveals
When we think of plants, the phrase “stressed out” doesn’t typically come to mind. They are, after all, exempt from paying bills and tackling existential...
Organ-development discovery could boost battle against cancer
A new discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has shed light on how our digestive tract, lungs and liver form, and that...
Use of chest, abdominopelvic CT for traumatic injury increased from 2011–18
Leesburg, VA, August 24, 2022—According to ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), from 2011 to 2018, national utilization of chest and abdominopelvic CT for trauma-related...
Insilico Medicine demonstrates value of AI approach to drug discovery
Andy Stamford, PhD, Vice President of Chemistry at Deerfield Discovery and Development at Deerfield Management, says he didn’t fully appreciate the advantages of using artificial...
Novel newborn screening system uses rapid whole genome sequencing and acute management guidance to screen and diagnosis genetic diseases
San Diego—August 24, 2022— Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM®) today announced the publication of a peer-reviewed study in the American Journal of Human Genetics...
Sahelanthropus, the oldest representative of humanity, was indeed bipedal…but that’s not all!
The acquisition of bipedalism is considered to be a decisive step in human evolution. Nevertheless, there is no consensus on its modalities and age, notably...
Study points to new approach to clearing toxic waste from brain
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found a new druggable pathway that potentially could be used to help prevent Alzheimer’s...
A new concept for low-cost batteries
As the world builds out ever larger installations of wind and solar power systems, the need is growing fast for economical, large-scale backup systems to...
