Immune cells could hold key to therapies for spinal cord injuries
Fresh insights into how zebrafish repair their damaged nerve connections could aid the development of therapies for people with spinal cord injuries. Scientists have found...
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Microbiome implicated in sea star wasting disease
Credit: Melanie Lloyd The culprit might be many microbes. Since 2013, a gruesome and mysterious disease has killed millions of sea stars along the West...
Study shows how vultures evesdrop to gather vital flight information
Credit: Hannah Williams A new study has revealed how vultures use their very own social networks to work out the best way to take advantage...
Award for project on the positive influence of maternal intestinal microbes
Credit: Courtesy of Stephanie Ganal-Vonarburg The winner of the Johanna Duermueller-Bol DBMR Research Award 2018 is Dr. Stephanie Ganal-Vonarburg. As a Senior Scientist, she conducts...
Ultrasound releases drug to alter activity in targeted brain areas in rats
Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have developed a noninvasive way of delivering drugs to within a few millimeters of a desired point in the...
Graphene takes a step towards renewable fuel
(Linköping University) Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, are working to develop a method to convert water and carbon dioxide to the renewable energy of the...
Autonomous vehicles could shape the future of urban tourism
In the first study of its kind, published in the Annals of Tourism Research, academics from the University of Surrey and the University of Oxford...
Disrupting communication in infectious bacteria
Credit: AG Böttcher The World Health Organization (WHO) considers Pseudomonas aeruginosa a germ requiring urgent action to prevent and control its spread. The bacteria can...
Need to mail mosquitoes? Pack them up nice and snug
Credit: Geoffrey M. Attardo, Ph.D., University of California, Davis/Journal of Insect Science Annapolis, MD; November 7, 2018--In the global effort to prevent diseases transmitted by...
Financial giants can have a pivotal role for climate stability
Financial institutions, such as banks and pension funds, have a key role to play in efforts to avoid dangerous climate change. And it is not...
Modern slavery promotes overfishing
Credit: Valentina Ruiz Leotaud. Labour abuses, including modern slavery, are 'hidden subsidies' that allow distant-water fishing fleets to remain profitable and promote overfishing, new re..
An overlooked giant: Useful and abundant, African ‘Zam’ palm newly described for science
Credit: Thomas L.P. Couvreur Common sight along road sides in south Cameroon and western Gabon, and growing in hard-to-be-missed dense colonies, it remains a mystery...
Protecting adult female north atlantic right whales from injury and death key to recovery
Why is the endangered western North Atlantic right whale population growing far more slowly than those of southern right whales, a sister species also recovering...
IOB contributes to one of four new #BertarelliNeuro research projects
The Bertarelli Foundation has awarded collaborative research grants to four teams of scientists representing Harvard Medical School, its affiliated teaching hospitals, and the Institute of...
Hunt for interesting metabolites with the antiSMASH database
Credit: Anne Lykke/DTU The antiSMASH tool can help researchers find bacterial genes responsible for the biosynthesis of interesting metabolites such as new antibiotics, pesticides, and...
