How the world’s fastest muscle created four unique bird species
Credit: Video courtesy of Matthew Fuxjager When the male bearded manakin snaps its wings at lightning speed, it's more than part of an elaborate, acrobatic...
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How will Texas law HB 810 impact stem cell-based intervention clinics?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 30, 2018-A new study takes a close look at the content and potential implications of...
Preventing sudden cardiac death with genome editing
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Each year, at least 3 million people worldwide die of sudden cardiac death. In the U.S., this number reaches up...
Scientists call for unified standards in 3D genome and epigenetic data
Just as a map of the world is more than a list of places and street names, the genome is more than a string of...
Research may shed light on controlling catastrophic disease of bats
Credit: Daniel Lindner, USDA Forest Service MADISON, Wis., (Oct. 30, 2018) - With help from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Bats for the Future...
Clodagh O’Shea receives Allen Distinguished Investigator award to study genome
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(October 30, 2018) Clodagh O'Shea, a professor in Salk's Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Faculty...
Modelling a future fuelled by sustainable energy
University of Adelaide economists have modelled the transition from a world powered by fossil fuels to one in which sustainable sources supply all our energy...
Photosynthesis like a moss
Credit: Masakazu Iwai/Berkeley Lab Moss evolved after algae but before vascular land plants, such as ferns and trees, making them an interesting target for scientists...
Deforestation triggered mass extinction of endemic animal species in Haiti
Credit: Image courtesy of Claudio Contreras The loss of more than 99 percent of primary, virgin forests in Haiti is triggering an ongoing mass extinction...
Tiny beetle trapped in amber might show how landmasses shifted
Credit: (c) Field Museum, Shuhei Yamamoto In 2016, Shuhei Yamamoto obtained a penny-sized piece of Burmese amber from Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar, near China's...
Your blood pressure and heart rate change to meet physical and social demands
BINGHAMTON, NY - Blood pressure and heart rate are not fixed, but rather they adapt to meet physical and social demands placed on the body,...
Fermented dairy products may protect against heart attack
Credit: Raija Törrönen Men who eat plenty of fermented dairy products have a smaller risk of incident coronary heart disease than men who eat less...
New species of Swallowtail butterfly discovered in Fiji
Credit: Greg Kerr A spectacular new butterfly species has been discovered on the Pacific Island of Vanua Levu in Fiji. The species, named last week...
City of Hope opens CAR T trial for HER2 breast cancer patients with brain metastases
City of Hope opens first-of-its-kind CAR T clinical trial for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer that has spread to the brain The immunotherapy trial is...
How some heart cells cope with high blood pressure
Credit: Image by The University of Tokyo. No copyright restrictions. Individual cells within the same heart cope differently with high blood pressure, according to a...
