‘Music of speech’ linked to brain area unique to humans
We humans are the only primates that can flexibly control the pitch of our voices. This melodic control is not just important for our singing...
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Cheating on cheaters
Credit: Roberto Keller A new study, to be published in Current Biology* on 28 June, proposes new strategies to induce the collapse of bacterial populations,...
Many survivors of childhood cancer are unconcerned about their future health
In the largest study to date that examined concerns of adult survivors of childhood cancer, a substantial proportion of survivors reported lack of concern about...
Off the scale: Can forensics save the world’s most-trafficked mammal?
Credit: Tim Wacher, ZSL A pioneering new project trials fingerprinting techniques to battle pangolin poaching. Forensic fingerprinting techniques will now be used in the battle...
Territory holders and floaters: Two spatial tactics of male cheetahs
Credit: Leibniz-IZW Scientists of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz IZW) in Berlin analysed the spatial behaviour of cheetahs. They showed that...
Chimpanzees start using a new tool-use gesture during an alpha male take over
Credit: TCP/Liran Samuni "Leaf clipping is a special behaviour. It is a rare example of tool-use in a communicative context and has been proposed to...
Low-cost prosthetic foot mimics natural walking
Prosthetic limb technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, giving amputees a range of bionic options, including artificial knees controlled by microchips, sensor-laden feet driven...
Study: Tau does not stabilize microtubules, challenges approach to treating Alzheimer’s
Credit: Drexel University A new study by researchers from Drexel University College of Medicine reverses the popular scientific dogma that the protein tau stabilizes microtubules...
Dietary supplement increases muscle force by 50% percentin the Duchenne muscular dystrophy mouse model
Québec City, June 28, 2018?A dietary supplement derived from glucose increases muscle-force production in the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) mouse model by 50% in ten...
Molecular brake on human cell division prevents cancer
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and the University of Sussex, England, have discovered that the process of copying DNA generates a brake signal that stalls...
Some existing anti-cancer drugs may act in part by targeting RNA, study shows
Credit: Scripps Research JUPITER, FL - June 28, 2018 - Bolstering the notion that RNA should be considered an important drug-discovery target, scientists at Scripps...
For some bladder cancer patients, simple test could reduce over-treatment, ease high cost
WASHINGTON -- Bladder cancer is relatively common and imposes the highest per patient cost on the U.S. health care system than the management of any...
MAP Congress 2018: Interpreting molecular alterations for clinical practice
Lugano, Switzerland, 28 June 2018 - The Molecular Analysis for Personalised therapy (MAP) Congress (1) is a one-of-a-kind meeting designed to answer the critical question...
Marine protected areas often expensive and misplaced
Credit: Christopher Michel Many marine protected areas are often unnecessarily expensive and located in the wrong places, an international study has shown. The University of...
Will global warming change the summer rainfall patterns over Eastern China?
Credit: DUAN Xinping Global warming is changing the Earth's climate. Heat waves, heavy rainfall, droughts and floods occur frequently in different parts of the world....
