Mutations acquired trans-Pacific may be key to changes in Zika…
Credit: Daniel Janies The Zika virus remains a mystery. Isolated from macaque monkeys in the Ziika Forest in Uganda in ...
New insights into human genetic variation revealed: Nature paper
Published in today's edition of Nature, the research led by Dr Monkol Lek of the University of Sydney and Dr ...
Strain differences in Zika infection gene patterns
Scientists have revealed molecular differences between how the African and Asian strains of Zika virus infect neural progenitor cells. The ...
Chronic inflammation plays critical role in sustained delivery of new MD therapy
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON — Macrophages, a type of white blood cell involved in inflammation, readily take up ...
New stem cell gene correction process puts time on researchers’…
Researchers from the Morgridge Institute for Research and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) in Australia have devised a way ...
Ancient super-eruptions in Yellowstone Hotspot track…
Credit: Photo taken by Marc Reichow, University of Leicester Images of the Snake River Plain and research team available at: ...
Oligonucleotide drug producers coauthor report on drug impurities
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 12, 2017–A new addition to a series of articles that ...
An epidemic of dream deprivation: UA review finds unrecognized health hazard of sleep loss
Credit: University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine TUCSON, Ariz. – A silent epidemic of dream loss is at the ...
New free web service for deep study of cell functions
A group of scientists from Russia, US, Canada and Germany has developed a simple and effective web service called GAM ...
African lions face same threats as extinct Ice Age ancestors
Credit: Dr Dawn Burnham, WildCRU Newly published in the journal Ecography, the study shows that the wildlife that went extinct ...
Healthy theme park meals?
IMAGE: The Journal of the Association for Consumer Research has an eating infographic. Credit: Brian Wansink When meals at Disney ...
Giving brown fat a green light
Credit: John Soares BOSTON – (March 27, 2017) – Activated by cold, the small amounts of brown fat scattered around ...
Maternal micronutrients, nurturing environment boost child development
Credit: Summit Institute of Development Mataram, Indonesia / Toronto, Canada: Mothers who take multi-micronutrient supplements during pregnancy can add the ...
Scavenging of inflammatory molecules improves sepsis in mice
Sepsis is a life-threatening complication of infection in which the molecules that the body releases to fight an infection trigger ...
Brazilian Zoologia joins Pensoft’s portfolio of open access…
Credit: Pensoft and Zoologia In a new partnership between Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia (Brazilian Society of Zoology) and the academic ...
Nanopatch polio vaccine delivers
Credit: Courtesy Vaxxas Pty Ltd Efforts to rid the world of polio have taken another significant step, thanks to research ...
Oregon study suggests some gut microbes may be keystones of health
EUGENE, Ore. — Nov. 11, 2015 — University of Oregon scientists have found that strength in numbers doesn't hold true ...
Reproducing higher-order embryonic kidney structures using pluripotent stem cells
Credit: Dr. Atsuhiro Taguchi & Professor Ryuichi Nishinakamura In the embryonic kidney, three types of precursor cells, nephron progenitor cells, ...
Synaptic connectivity motifs contribute to memory storage and…
In a recent research article entitled "Synaptic mechanisms of pattern completion in the hippocampal CA3 network", published on September 9, ...
Mortality of surgery vs. targeted radiation in early lung cancer…
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in the Journal of Clinical ...
