Pheasants lose their cool after fighting
Pheasants lose their cool after fightingCredit: Credit Tim Fawcett Pheasants lose their cool after fighting Pheasants' heads cool rapidly as they prepare to fight –...
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Life in the “dead” heart of Australia
8 January 2022, Sydney. A team of Australian and international scientists led by Australian Museum (AM) and University of New South Wales (UNSW) palaeontologist Dr...
Budget of dissolved organic carbon in the South China Sea assessed by an eddy-resolving ocean model
Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is the majority of marine organic carbon. Understanding its source and sink processes is of great significance to global carbon cycle...
Study sets framework for precision surveillance of colorectal cancer
A team of Vanderbilt researchers has revealed some of the mechanisms by which polyps develop into colorectal cancer, setting the framework for improved surveillance for...
Biotechnology could provide an environmentally more sustainable alternative to egg white protein production
The research by the Future Sustainable Food Systems research group at the University of Helsinki together with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland shows that...
Scientists uncover the distribution and physiological role of planteose
Osaka, Japan—Witchweed (Striga spp.) and broomrapes (Orobanche and Phelipanche spp.) are root parasitic weeds that inflict major losses in agriculture globally. Being obligate parasitic flowering...
Which animals exist right here? Now researchers are able to find the answer out of thin air
Identifying the animal species that live in a particular area can be a lot of work. Usually it means spotting the animals with the naked...
Anxiety and PTSD linked to increased myelin in brain’s gray matter
A recent study links anxiety behavior in rats, as well as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in military veterans, to increased myelin — a substance...
Researchers develop optical biopsy system that detects liver cancer
WASHINGTON — Researchers have developed an optical biopsy system that can distinguish between cancerous and healthy liver tissue. The new technology could make it easier...
Resisting the pressure
Knowing, when exactly immune cells will try to invade a tumor is difficult. In order to be able to study this cell invasion process in...
How do we provide meaning to our environment? Cracking the neural code to the brain
The brain is the most complex organ in our body – constantly absorbing and interpreting our surroundings, and guiding our movement, thoughts, behaviors and emotions....
WVU receives NIH funding to dissect the mechanism of retinal degeneration
Inherited retinal degeneration can make even the most mundane tasks—like cooking, driving and walking down the sidewalk—difficult or impossible, and it can’t be cured.Credit: WVU...
Unlocking the secrets of a critical schistosomiasis drug
Independent teams from Texas Biomedical Research Institute and the Medical College of Wisconsin have published two papers in Science Translational Medicine identifying how the only...
Fingerprint patterns are linked to limb development genes
In the most comprehensive analysis to date, researchers found that the shapes of fingerprints—whether they are circular, wavy, or winding—are influenced by the genes responsible...
In Down syndrome cells, genome-wide disruptions mimic a senescence-like state
In Down syndrome, the third copy of chromosome 21 causes a reorganization of the 3D configuration of the entire genome in a key cell type...
