Willow tits survive best with support from a flock
Long dark winters are challenging for small birds, but living as a flock makes it easierCredit: Photo: Nina Tveter, NTNU Willow tits (Poecile montanus) generally...
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Research suggests path to vaccine or drug for late-onset Alzheimer's
UTSW researchers neutralize genetic risk factor found in 50 to 80 percent of human casesCredit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Dec. 14, 2018 - UT Southwestern...
Harvard's Wyss Institute commences project to identify means to induce a state of suspended animation
High-risk initiative aims to develop 'Time-Tolerant Biostasis Therapeutics' that slow down critical processes in the human body to gain time to repair life-threatening injuries (BOSTON)...
Communication between neural networks
Credit: Illustration: BCF The brain is organized into a network of specialized networks of nerve cells. For such a brain architecture to function, these specialized...
Dauphin Island Sea Lab to lead mapping, restoration of SAV in Alabama
Credit: Heck Lab The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources tapped the Dauphin Island Sea Lab to lead a five year project to map...
Study affirms geographic discrimination in allocating lungs for transplant
Court filing prompted change in allocation policy in 2017 to make the system fairer, but system still may discriminate Results of a medical records study...
Plants don't like touch: Green thumb myth dispelled
Credit: La Trobe University La Trobe University-led research has found that plants are extremely sensitive to touch and that repeated touching can significantly retard growth....
Hen harriers and red grouse: Finding common ground in a persistent conflict
A conflict between those working to conserve numbers of hen harriers and those maintaining commercial shooting of red grouse in the English uplands has existed...
Salk's Xin Jin receives McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award
Salk scientist receives $300,000 for study of how brain learns and memorizes actions, processes which can go awry in diseases such as Parkinson's and OCDCredit:...
Researchers develop global checklist for hospital antimicrobial stewardship programs
CDDEP researchers lead development of an evidence-based and globally applicable checklist for antimicrobial stewardship programs Researchers at the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy...
DFG approves funding for 13 optical microscopes at German universities
Approximately €14.5 million as part of a thematically focused major instrumentation initiative The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) has approved funding of approximately €14.5...
A method to monitor indoor crop health no matter what planet you're on
A user-friendly, cost-effective protocol to use SI-NDVI imaging for early, remote detection of plant stressCredit: Nicole S. Beisel, Jordan B. Callaham, Natasha J. Sng, Dylan...
Texas A&M scientists find Mexican endemic fish never identified in US
Conchos shiner found in US waters for the first timeCredit: Dr. Kevin Conway COLLEGE STATION - Texas A&M University's Dr. Kevin Conway, Dr. Joshuah Perkin...
New strains of hepatitis C found in Africa
Study could inform hepatitis C treatment and vaccine development worldwide The largest population study of hepatitis C in Africa has found three new strains of...
New study will track how trade wars affect the Midwest
Team studying how tariffs affect food, water, energy in America's heartland A team of researchers who first proposed studying the effect a global trade war...
