Credit: John Worthington Scientists from Lancaster University in the UK have discovered that immune responses originally found to prevent fungal infections are also important in...
Credit: Yang F, Yu X, Zhou C, Mao R, Zhu M, Zhu H, et al. (2019) New research sheds light on how a hepatitis B...
Comprehensive new earthquake catalog includes 10 times more quakes than previously identified, with a more detailed picture of stresses and structures in the earthCredit: W.L....
Study looked at methylmercury levels in 24 dog diets Researchers at the University of California, Davis, recently investigated levels of methylmercury in a small sampling...
A closer look at seismic data from 2008-17 expands Southern California's earthquake catalog by a factor of 10Credit: Caltech Pouring through 10 years' worth of...
Credit: Katherine Fedoroff. Fish warn each other about danger by releasing chemicals into the water as a signal, research by the University of Saskatchewan (USask)...
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have demonstrated that the recently developed antidiabetic drug empagliflozin can treat and reverse the progression...
Unlike many migratory species, Galapagos giant tortoises do not use current environmental conditions to time their seasonal migrationCredit: Photo courtesy of Guillame Bastille-Rousseau. Galapagos giant...
After 170 years, nobody was quite sure where anesthesia worked on the brainCredit: Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- The discovery of general anesthesia 170 years...
Credit: Image courtesy of Rice University Elaborate molecular networks inside living cells enable them to sense and process many signals from the environment to perform...
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 18, 2019--Gene therapy offers the promise of a cure for beta-thalassemia and a new study...
Thirty-person study of human perception suggests a 'middle ground' between opposing literatureCredit: Designed by Elina Stengård Human perception is based on mathematically optimal principles, but...
York University research shows species is critically endangered The American Bumblebee - a species once more commonly seen buzzing around Southern Ontario - is critically...
Synthetic biologists add tunable, analog-to-digital converter to their toolkitCredit: Rice University HOUSTON -- (April 18, 2019) -- Synthetic biologists have added high-precision analog-to-digital signal processing...
Mass. General team's findings may have application to treatment of cancer, neurodegenerative disorders Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have discovered the mechanism by which cells...
