Even flies like a familiar song
Credit: Azusa Kamikouchi Researchers at Nagoya University develop fruit fly model to explore how learned auditory cues alter mating behavior and sexual preference. Nagoya, Japan...
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Dogs with noise sensitivity should be routinely assessed for pain by vets
Dogs which show fear or anxiety when faced with loud or sudden noises should be routinely assessed for pain by veterinarians, a new study has...
Pro-environmental programs should take the factors that motivate each gender into consideration
Credit: UPV/EHU A group of researchers in the Department of Financial Economics II (Company Economics and Marketing) of the UPV/EHU's Faculty of Economics and Business...
Two genes cooperate to trigger leukemia development
An international group of researchers led by Prof. Jan Cools of the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology have made a breakthrough in understanding the...
Specific gene region in hypertension revealed
Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan - Genes encode proteins and proteins dictate cell function. Therefore, the thousands of genes expressed in a cell determine...
20 percent of Americans responsible for almost half of US food-related greenhouse gas emissions
ANN ARBOR--On any given day, 20 percent of Americans account for nearly half of U.S. diet-related greenhouse gas emissions, and high levels of beef consumption...
Brain SPECT imaging predicts outcomes in depressed patients
Credit: Amens Clinic March 20, 2018, Costa Mesa, California: New research from the Amen Clinics shows that brain SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) imaging,...
Good motor skills may enhance reading skills in obese children
Excess body weight has been linked to poor academic performance in children in several previous studies. A new Finnish study now shows that a high...
Illusory motion reproduced by deep neural networks trained for prediction
Credit: Akiyoshi Kitaoka Deep neural networks (DNNs), which have been developed with reference to the network structures and the operational algorithms of the brain, have...
Sound new technique tunes into the shifting shapes of biology
Credit: Phil Robinson - John Innes Centre It's one of the major challenges of biology: how to accurately quantify the mass of swarming, shifting shapes...
Chronic fatigue syndrome possibly explained by lower levels of key thyroid hormones
Credit: © 2018 Ruiz-Núñez, Tarasse, Vogelaar, Dijck-Brouwer and Muskiet. Front. Endocrinol. | doi: 10.3389/fendo.2018.00097 New research demonstrates a link between chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) sy..
Researchers create new low-cost, sustainable material for reducing air and water pollution
Credit: © 2018 Zanoletti, Vassura, Venturini, Monai, Montini, Federici, Zacco, Treccani and Bontempi. Front. Chem. | doi: 10.3389/fchem.2018.00060 A new class of low-cost and sustainable...
Natural sniper kills hospital bacterium
Bacteria produce proteins to take out specific competitors. One of these proteins can kill the hospital bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Microbial geneticists at KU Leuven, Belgium,...
Discovered mode of drinking in mosquitoes carries biomedical implications
Credit: Virginia Tech Mosquitoes may have a reputation for being one of the world's most intractable pests, but they're actually quite tiny and fragile. So...
USTC reports diamond ring architecture of a protein complex
Credit: USTC News Center Just as diamond ring is needed in marriage, NuA4/Tip60, a complex with diamond ring architecture, is required for regulatory and repairing...
