A new released Chinese soybean genome facilitates soybean elite cultivar improvement
Credit: ©Science China Press Soybean (Glycine max Merr.) is one of the most important crops, providing more than half of global oilseed production and more...
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The fate of Arctic mosquitoes depends on habitat and access to blood meals
Credit: Robert Gill The future of Arctic mosquitoes (Aedes nigripes) in western Greenland depends on aquatic habitat and access to blood meals, according to a...
Pheromones in fight against pests
Nowadays, everybody is aware of the toxic effects of the conventional insecticides that are used to protect plants from pest insects. The insecticides are harmful...
Assembly of fluctuating molecules in artificial cell membrane
Credit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Lipids and membrane proteins existing in cell membranes, which locates at the outermost layer of...
Helmholtz International Fellow Award for Claudia Langenberg
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Dr. Claudia Langenberg of the University of Cambridge is one of five scientists to win...
Rethinking ketchup packets: New approach to slippery packaging aims to cut food waste
Credit: Virginia Tech Almost everyone who eats fast food is familiar with the frustration of trying to squeeze every last drop of ketchup out of...
The new tree of life of freshwater macroinvertebrates in the European continent
Credit: Núria Bonada (IRBio-UB) A study from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute of the University of Barcelona (IRBio-UB) analysed how water...
Online now: Expert webinar series on animal-free inhalation toxicity testing
London -- Collaboration between the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd., industry, government, and nonprofit groups has resulted in a 17-part free webinar series highlighting modern...
Noted UTA health care scholar elected American College of Cardiology Fellow
Credit: UT Arlington Mark Haykowsky, a University of Texas at Arlington nursing professor and leading expert in exercise physiology and heart failure rehabilitation, has been...
How Africans developed scientific knowledge of the deadly tsetse fly
Few animals are more problematic than the tiny African insect known to English speakers as the tsetse fly. This is the carrier of "sleeping sickness,"...
UC Davis researchers find quiet viruses alter body’s response to vaccines, pathogens
(SACRAMENTO) -- UC Davis researchers have shown that low levels of cytomegalovirus (CMV) have a significant impact on microbe and immune cell populations and how...
New research opens door to expanding stem cells available for transplants
Credit: Representative illustration courtesy of the Stowers Institute. KANSAS CITY, MO -- Researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and collaborators have identified a...
Cocaine relapse is reversed with BDNF microinjections in the brain
Credit: Photo by Sarah Pack Medical University of South Carolina Cocaine relapse was significantly reduced in a preclinical model when brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF) was...
Study examines how age and ethnicity impact HIV testing
Credit: Genevieve Casanova, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Many barriers prevent people from getting tested for HIV, including lack of knowledge, competing priorities during medical...
A deeper look at severe asthma yields NET results
Of the more than 24 million people in the U.S. who have asthma, 10 percent have severe asthma - a form of the disease that...
