Sex or food? Decision-making in single-cell organisms
Credit: Karen Grace Bondoc, FSU Jena Unicellular diatoms are able to adapt their behavior to different external stimuli based on an evaluation of their own...
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The science of sustainability
Credit: Uruma City, Japan © Ryo Yoshitake The U.S. city of Louisville, Kentucky isn't known as a hotbed of environmental action and innovation, but that...
New scholars named by program to promote research into the influence of gender on health
Traditionally many health-related research projects focused only on males, assuming that females' bodies would respond the same way to a given intervention or drug. But...
Multidisciplinary team to develop stem cell-based approaches to restore vision
A team from the University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and University of Wisconsin--Madison are launching a project to develop new strategies for treating...
Keeping food out of landfills
Credit: Kathy F. Atkinson You probably throw out more food than you realize. Food waste makes up 21.6 percent of municipal waste, according to the...
A bad influence: the interplay between tumor cells and immune cells
Credit: Trudy Oliver Lab Research at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) yielded new insights into the environment surrounding...
Algorithmic innovation may help reduce invasive heart procedures
Credit: Abhejit Rajagopal WASHINGTON, D.C., October 16, 2018 -- Doctors use invasive procedures to map the hearts of patients suffering from atrial fibrillation, an abnormal...
True sanctuary
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- When they first set out to follow grey reef sharks around the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), Darcy Bradley and...
Drink (alcohol-free) beer and live for a hundred years
Ingredients in beer are claimed to combat inflammation and obesity? Researchers working with Prof. Dr. Claus Hellerbrand at the Institute of Biochemistry at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nü..
Forest carbon stocks have been overestimated for 50 years
Credit: © CIRAD, G. Vieilledent It may be a small correction, but it is far from negligible as far as forest ecologists and carbon cycle...
Team envisions future of the American road with new NSF planning grant
Credit: Anil Misra LAWRENCE -- Headquartered at the University of Kansas School of Engineering, a research team is envisioning what U.S. roads, highways, bridges and...
Public opinion on GMOs might impact similar technologies in stores
Credit: Missouri School of Journalism COLUMBIA, Mo. -If an individual is skeptical about the safety of genetically modified foods, chances are they're wary of nanotechnology,...
Age-related increase in estrogen may cause common men’s hernia
Increased estrogen level in mice weakens abdominal wall to cause hernia Inguinal hernia repair is most common surgery in men As men age, larger amount...
New findings cast light on lymphatic system, key player in human health
Credit: OMRF Scientists at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation have broken new ground in understanding how the lymphatic system works, potentially opening the door for...
This RNA-based technique could make gene therapy more effective
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Delivering functional genes into cells to replace mutated genes, an approach known as gene therapy, holds potential for treating many types of...
