Modern technology and old-fashioned legwork solve science mystery
Video shows single-cell organism making complex decisionsCredit: Image credit: Joseph Dexter and Sudhakaran Prabakaran/Current Biology. HANOVER, N.H. - December 5, 2019 - A life of...
NEWS INDEX
Scientist identify new marker for insecticide resistance in malaria mosquitoes
Credit: Adriana Adolfi Researchers at LSTM have genetically modified malaria carrying mosquitoes in order to demonstrate the role of particular genes in conferring insecticide resistance....
Squid pigments have antimicrobial properties
Credit: Chan-Higuera et al. Ommochromes, the pigments that colour the skin of squids and other invertebrates, could be used in the food and health sectors...
Your food may help make stickier, safer glues for laptops, packaging, furniture
Credit: Gudrun Schmidt/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - You cannot make glue out of a ham sandwich - but you may be able to use...
How extreme environmental conditions affect the human brain
Study from the Antarctic Neumayer-Station IIICredit: Photo: Stahn/Charité A joint press release by Charité and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development Members of a...
First ‘lab in a field’ experiment reveals a sunnier side of climate change
Credit: Phil Robinson Pioneering experiments using heated field plots to test the responses of crops to temperature have revealed an unexpected plus side of climate...
Neurorestore: A Swiss initiative aimed at restoring lost neurological function
The Defitech Foundation has teamed up with EPFL, CHUV and UNIL to widen access to the groundbreaking neurotechnology developed under the 2018 STIMO study, which...
How sand fly mating habits are helping tackle tropical disease in £2.5 million project
Credit: World Health Organisation The tropical disease Leishmaniasis is being tackled by catching female sand flies who carry the parasite that causes the disease. Scientists...
Mouse study shows nerve signaling pathway critical to healing fractures
Credit: Seungyong Lee, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Medicine Sticks and stones may break one's bones, but healing them requires the production of a protein signal that...
NeutroCure: Exploiting the dual nature of neutrophils to cure inflammatory diseases
The project has received European funding of €3 million for 5 years in the category H2020-FETOPEN-2018-2020 - FET Open -- novel ideas for radically new...
Researchers develop method to improve skeleton of common chemicals
Credit: Keiji Mori, TUAT Every chemical, from the simplest to the most complex, have a structural skeleton of atoms. The atoms can be added or...
Study prompts call for disaster-specific pharmacy legislation
Credit: QUT media Pharmacists caught up in the Australian bushfire crisis are being hampered from providing timely and effective treatment to displaced people due to...
Multiple correlations between brain complexity and locomotion pattern in vertebrates
Researchers unveil multiple correlations between brain complexity and locomotion pattern in vertebratesCredit: Simone Macrì and Nicolas Di-Poï, University of Helsinki. Researchers at the Institute of...
How much will we eat in the future?
Researchers at Göttingen University investigate relationship between our body size and human global calorie demandCredit: Lutz Depenbusch The amount of food needed to feed the...
Bystanders can help more cardiac arrest victims survive
Everyone should learn to recognize cardiac arrest, perform CPR, use an AEDCredit: UVA Health Only 8% of Americans survive cardiac arrest outside a hospital, but...
