Among a group of American Indian and Alaska Native women interviewed, almost half (45%) reported experiencing reproductive coercion in their lifetime. Intimate partner violence and...
A new international study carried out by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) has examined the distribution...
The ability of cells to move together in harmony is crucial for numerous biological processes in our body, for example wound healing, or the healthy...
Which genes control the defining features that make us look as we do? And how do they make it happen?Credit: Bier Lab, UC San Diego...
Human-caused bird extinctions are driving losses of functional diversity on islands worldwide, and the gaps they leave behind are not being filled by introduced (alien)...
The world’s largest ammonite species evolved to reach diameters of 1.5-1.8m around 80 million years ago, possibly to evade predationCredit: Ifrim et al., 2021, PLOS...
Pet cats seem to track their owner's location - and are surprised in experiments when their voice appears to come from somewhere elseCredit: Yerlin Matu,...
Researchers at Stockholm University have provided the first experimental evidence that brain regions can evolve independently of each other during cognitive evolution. This so called...
Skin microbiome bacteria - and bacterial pathways - identified as associated with ageing skinCredit: Alkema et al., 2021, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Skin microbiome...
HOUSTON – (Nov. 10, 2021) – Rice University researchers have received $1.3 million from the Office of Naval Research through the Defense Research University Instrumentation Program to...
"There is an urgent and growing need for human tissues and organs worldwide, many patients are waiting.” The words are from Jennifer Lewis, professor at...
Building better air filters could help head off the next pandemic. At the 74th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, scientists will present...
Tsukuba, Japan – Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the accumulation of fat in the liver unrelated to alcohol abuse or other liver diseases. It...
The inside of a cell is a busy, crowded place – full of proteins and other molecules colliding as they swirl through the cytosol, the...
A needle-free technology that would allow people with diabetes to measure blood sugar levels without having to stick a needle into their fingertips, has been...
