Samara Polytech scientists developed a unique wine recipe
Credit: @SamaraPolytech The founder of the legendary Spanish winery, senor Torres, taught his children: "The best wine is made at home." If scientists get down...
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Great tit birds have as much impulse control as chimpanzees
Biologists at Lund University in Sweden have in a recent study shown that the great tit, a common European songbird, has a tremendous capacity for...
Largest king penguin colony has shrunk nearly 90%
Credit: © Henry Weimerskirch Known since the 1960s, the colony of king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) on Île aux Cochons, in the southern Indian Ocean, had...
Climate taxes on agriculture could lead to more food insecurity than climate change itself
New IIASA-led research has found that a single climate mitigation scheme applied to all sectors, such as a global carbon tax, could have a serious...
Marshall University researchers identify inflammatory biomarkers in T cells
Credit: Marshall University The Marshall University School of Pharmacy, in collaboration with the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine Genomics Core, recently released...
Study provides next clue to preventing dangerous episodes of low blood sugar with diabetes
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA -- A new LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center study reveals that a novel biomarker might give us new answers necessary to creating...
Researchers reveal hidden rules of genetics for how life on Earth began
Credit: Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga CHAPEL HILL, NC - All living things use the genetic code to "translate" DNA-based genetic information into proteins, which are the main...
Researchers demonstrate shark vertebral band pairs are related to growth, not time
Band pairs in shark vertebrae have been used for decades to estimate shark age, of practical use in conserving overfished sharks and managing the remaining...
A new climate model can predict dengue outbreaks in the Caribbean region
Changes in climate, such as rain and drought, can affect the risk of mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue, chikungunya and Zika. An international team comprising...
Montane pine forests reached the northeastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula 50,000 years ago
Credit: CEPAP-UAB A study conducted by the UAB and the IPHES confirms a continuous presence of montane coniferous forests from the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean...
Madagascar’s lemurs use millipedes for their tummy troubles
Credit: Louise Peckre Madagascar's red-fronted lemurs may have a secret weapon from nature's medicine cabinet: millipedes. This is according to a study led by Louise...
Inflammation inhibitor delivered directly to kidneys reverses course of destructive nephritis
Credit: Phil Jones, AU Senior Photographer AUGUSTA, Ga. (July 30, 2018) - Using a manmade version of a human antibody to directly deliver a drug...
Harnessing hair loss gene could improve cancer immunotherapy
NEW YORK, NY (July 30, 2018)--A gene that's associated with an autoimmune form of hair loss could be exploited to improve cancer immunotherapy, suggests a...
Sequencing a malaria mosquito’s motherline
A team led by scientists from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has sequenced and annotated the first complete mitochondrial genome of Anopheles...
Study shows how Oropouche virus replicates in human cells
The strategy used by the Oropouche virus to replicate in human cells has been described for the first time by researchers at the University of...
