Beetle adapts chemical mimicry to parasitize different bee species
Credit: Photo by Leslie Saul-Gershenz) A beetle that tricks bees into carrying it into their nests where it can live off their pollen, nectar and...
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Scientists identified enzyme in milk production as target for novel breast cancer drugs
Credit: VCU Massey Cancer Center VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers have identified a protein involved in milk production that stimulates the growth and spread of...
Coral bleaching increases disease risk in threatened species
Credit: Conor Goulding/Mote Marine Laboratory Bleaching events caused by rising water temperatures could increase mortality among a coral species already threatened by disease, says new...
Natural mechanism could lower emissions from tropical peatlands
Credit: Duke Univ. DURHAM, N.C. -- Scientists have long feared that as Earth warms, tropical peatlands -- which store up to 10 percent of the...
Folding poisons
Credit: Source: Klaus Aktories Treating bacterial infections with antibiotics often kills intestinal flora, leading to diarrhoea and inflammation of the gut. Often it is bacteria...
Understanding 6th-century barbarian social organization & migration through paleogenomics
Credit: Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la Città Metropolitana di Torino Applying a comprehensive analysis of genetic, historical, and archeological factors in two...
UBC breakthrough opens door to $100 ultrasound machine
Credit: University of British Columbia Engineers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new ultrasound transducer, or probe, that could dramatically lower the...
Barriers and opportunities in renewable biofuels production
Credit: Martina Butorac/Chalmers University of Technology Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap so..
Engrafted stem cell-derived lung organoids that model human lung development
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 10, 2018-Researchers have now grown lung organoids from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) that, after...
Research devises protocol for measuring distances within biomolecules
Credit: Clemson University Relations CLEMSON, South Carolina -- Architects cannot build a house without the proper dimensions of the foundation. Likewise, scientists cannot develop targeted...
Carbon nanodots do an ultrafine job with in vitro lung tissue
Credit: Estelle Durantie and Hana Barosova WASHINGTON, D.C., September 11, 2018 -- Epidemiological studies have established a strong correlation between inhaling ultrafine particles from incomplete...
Prenatal exposure to cannabis impacts sociability of male offspring only
Taking cannabinoids during pregnancy can cause behavioural and neuronal deficits in adult male offspring, while females remain unaffected, says new research published in eLife. The...
Pain response in babies’ brains controlled in ‘similar way to adults’
Researchers from the Department of Paediatrics and Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging at the University of Oxford, UK, have identified the neural network that helps...
Montana State study gauges health of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Credit: Linda Phillips BOZEMAN -- A Montana State University study of Yellowstone National Park and the surrounding area shows that increased population and density, as...
Fighting the cold virus and other threats, body makes trade-off, says study
New Haven, Conn.-- A Yale research team has revealed how cells in different parts of the human airway vary in their response to the common...
