Credit: Lucia Romani, 2018, CC BY 4.0 For years, the diagnosis of scabies has relied on time-consuming and intrusive full-body examinations. Now, researchers reporting in...
Parasitic protozoa called trypanosomes synthesize sugars using an unexpected metabolic pathway called gluconeogenesis, according to a study published December 27 in the open-access journal PLOS...
Credit: G Quinn, Swansea University Researchers analysing soil from Ireland long thought to have medicinal properties have discovered that it contains a previously unknown strain...
Credit: Amy Porter, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International The critically endangered Grauer's gorilla has recently lost genetic diversity and has experienced an increase in harmful...
Credit: Bruce Palmer/FSU Photography Services TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A team of Florida State University researchers has unlocked a decades-old mystery about how a critical cellular...
Credit: Wedell-Neergaard, Lehrskov, and Christensen, et al. / Cell Metabolism Some of you may have made a New Year's resolution to hit the gym to...
NIH-funded team shows that introducing genetic diversity improves translatability Incorporating genetic diversity into a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease resulted in greater overlap with the...
Cancers related to body weight twice as predominant in women than in men A new study looking at the share of cancers related to obesity...
We know a good meal can stimulate the release of the feel-good hormone dopamine, and now a study in humans from the Max Planck Institute...
Credit: Copyright UC Regents 2018 Continuous indoor exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke triggers changes in the heart's electrical activity, known as cardiac alternans, that can...
Researchers tested the effectiveness of a topical antibiotic in eliminating Staphylococcus aureus colonization in hospitalized infants BALTIMORE, MD, Dec. 26, 2018 -- A team of...
The article by Dr. Alireza Mohammadi et al. is published in Current Gene Therapy, Volume 18, Issue 4, 2018 Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder...
Credit: Artwork by Lee Fletcher, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland. University of Queensland researchers have discovered a key mechanism in the brain that...
This article by Dr. Amirhossein Sahebkar et al. is published in Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2018 The genus Rosa from family Rosaceae is one of the...
New process could lead to reduction in carbon footprintsCredit: The University of Sheffield Abandoned Christmas trees could be saved from landfill and turned into paint...
