New insights into complex processes
Credit: Photo: team Gessler The blood-brain barrier is a crucial protection mechanism: It is a highly selective physical barrier that ...
The Global Ant Genomics Alliance announces partnership with Novogene to advance the genomic study of ants around the world
July 18, 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark and Beijing, China - The Global Ant Genomics Alliance (GAGA; http://antgenomics.dk/), an international collaboration of ...
Novogene will use Pacific Biosciences SMRT technology to build novo-disease SV genomes database
San Diego, July 18, 2017 -- Novogene announced today it plans to use Pacific Biosciences SMRT® technology to build a ...
Evolution of the fungus that is devastating wheat crops
Wheat blast fungus is a pathogen that has been devastating wheat crops in South America since the mid-1980s and recently ...
New research highlights optimal methods for administering children’s medications
New research published today, conducted by a research team from the University of Liverpool and Alder Hey Children's Hospital, aims ...
Parasite revealed: New insights into dicyemida
Credit: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) Revealing the origin and evolutionary history of the world's manifold ...
‘Plant cinema’ shows the flow of energy
Credit: (c) Stephan Wagner Nothing works without fuel: plants also depend on fuel for growth and development. In living organisms, ...
Scientists ‘resurrect’ ancient proteins to provide clues about molecular innovation
Credit: ESRF/P. Jayet Enzyme activity is determined by the structure of a particular region of the protein called the active ...
How blood vessels slow down and accelerate tumor growth
Cancer cells have an enormous need for oxygen and nutrients. Therefore, growing tumors rely on the simultaneous growth of capillaries, ...
One amino acid, a whale of a difference
A single amino-acid variation in a key receptor in whales may help explain why some species of cetaceans evolved sleek, ...
Study reveals ways in which cells feel their surroundings
Credit: Image courtesy of Ned Wingreen, Princeton University Cells push out tiny feelers to probe their physical surroundings, but how ...
27 Phase III and 8 Phase II Alzheimer’s drugs on track to launch in next 5 years
Credit: ResearchersAgainstAlzheimer's LONDON, July 18, 2017 - Twenty-seven Alzheimer's drugs in Phase III clinical trials and eight drugs in Phase ...
Low-dose diazepam can increase social competitiveness
Psychologists speak of anxiety in two forms: "state" anxiety, which refers to anxiety arising from a particular situation; and "trait" ...
Reversing fetal alcohol damage after birth
Study in rats showed thyroxine and metformin reversed memory and learning deficits caused by fetal alcohol exposure Potential treatment for ...
Scientists unlock planthoppers’ potential to control future crop disease outbreaks
Credit: Junjie Zhu Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Zoology have discovered how a severe rice virus ...
Study shows language development starts in the womb
Credit: KU News Service photo A month before they are born, fetuses carried by American mothers-to-be can distinguish between someone ...
Helping EU cities and regions cut carbon emissions
Credit: Graphic: NTNU Industrial Ecology Programme/ Environmental Research Letters In 1915, a Scottish town planner and social activist named Patrick ...
Does exercise facilitate body weight control? The answer may depend on sex.
Healthcare practitioners regularly prescribe diet and exercise as a method for patients to lose weight. But exercise might not be ...
New combination of anti-obesity drugs may have beneficial effects
Research conducted in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has revealed that a unique combination of ...
Benefits of gastric bypass surgery linked to changes in sweet taste preference
Worldwide, the number of patients struggling with obesity is rapidly increasing in both adults and children. Diet and exercise are ...
