Mapping the brain, neuron by neuron
A Johns Hopkins University mathematician and computer scientist joined an international team of neuroscientists to create a complete map of ...
Researchers link genes and motor skills development
Genes for many may be widely associated with determining certain traits and characteristics. Now a study co-led by John H. ...
Checkpoint inhibitors fire up different types of T cells to attack tumors
HOUSTON -- Cancer immunotherapies that block two different checkpoints on T cells launch immune attacks on cancer by expanding distinct ...
Innovative way to understand nature of an entire tiny particle
Credit: Photo credit: Mark Townley/UNH UIC DURHAM, N.H. - New research from the University of New Hampshire has led to ...
Lung cancer clinical trial elig criteria & requirements increased in number and complexity
DENVER -Eligibility criteria continue to increase in number and complexity for lung cancer clinical trials. Cancer clinical trials have complex ...
Gene-editing-induced changes in ant social communication
Credit: Image credit: Brigitte Baella PHILADELPHIA - Ants have proven themselves to be the newest (and brightest) animal model on ...
MPFI’s Ryohei Yasuda awarded 2017 Nakaakira Tsukahara Memorial Prize
Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience Ryohei Yasuda, Ph.D., Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience's (MPFI) Scientific Director, was ...
The only way is up: Trees help reptiles thrive
James Cook University researchers in Queensland say if graziers leave trees in place on their land all types of reptiles ...
NIH to host workshop on advances, future needs in human microbiome research
What: Microbes inhabit just about every part of the human body outnumbering human cells by ten to one. The ten-year, ...
Plants love microbes — and so do farmers
Credit: Lui Weber The Australian Sunshine Coast's plant diversity has helped University of Queensland researchers confirm that nurture has the ...
The cost of malnutrition: Study shows nutrition program could save hospitals up to $3,800 per patient
1 in 3 people enter a hospital malnourished or at-risk of malnutrition 1-2 Four Chicago area hospitals showed early nutrition ...
Scientists unlock planthoppers’ role in rice stripe virus reproduction
Credit: IOZ Recently, researchers from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered how a severe ...
Chimpanzees learn rock-paper-scissors
Chimpanzees of all ages and all sexes can learn the simple circular relationship between the three different hand signals used ...
Researchers find the genes responsible for motor and vocal tics in children
Credit: MIPT's Press Office An international research team including Vasiliy Ramensky, a member of the MIPT Life Sciences Center, has ...
New insight into how immune cells are formed
In contrast to what has been previously believed, development of blood stem cells to mast cells, a type of specialised ...
Cellular transport routes
Credit: Erika Isono, University of Konstanz Unlike many other organisms, plants can't simply run away from environmental conditions that change ...
Blocking pathogens in rice
Credit: Wolf B. Frommer What is known as "rice blight" is a dreaded plant disease that endan-gers rice harvests throughout ...
Yoda bat gets happy: New species officially recognized
An unusual breed of fruit bat -- previously nicknamed 'Yoda' due to its resemblance to the Star Wars Jedi Master ...
HSE researchers use neural networks for odor recognition
Researchers from the HSE Laboratory of Space Research, Technologies, Systems and Processes have applied fast-learning artificial intelligence to odour recognition ...
Sanford Burnham Prebys and Mayo Clinic collaborators awarded multi-year NIH grant
Credit: SBP Orlando, FL, Aug. 10, 2017 Â- A team of researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) ...
