Credit: Island Conservation New research published in PLOS ONE this week demonstrates dramatic positive benefits for native trees following rat removal at Palmyra Atoll, a...
Credit: Julie O'Connor, Wayne State University DETROIT - Preventing heart failure is a major challenge in the management of cardiovascular diseases. β-adrenergic blockades -- or...
Credit: Dr. John Fry JULY 17, 2018 (Brussels, Belgium) -- A team of 27 scientists working with a major stevia supplier has created a systematic...
Credit: Christoph Bru?tting Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany, show for the first time that free-living, sap-sucking bugs can manipulate the...
Credit: Fred Hutch News Service SEATTLE (July 17, 2018) -- A large prospective study has found that sexual and physical abuse in childhood and adolescence...
The National Cancer Institute (NCI), the U.S. federal government's principal agency that funds cancer research, has renewed the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center's...
Credit: Nathan W. Bailey For some animals -- such as beetles, ants, toads, and primates -- short-term social isolation can be just as vital as...
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 17, 2018 -- Studying the photochemistry, or chemical results of light, has shown that ultraviolet radiation can set off harmful chemical reactions...
Credit: Video courtesy of MarAlliance Eugenie Clark was a pioneer in shark biology, known around the world for her illuminating research on shark behavior. But...
Credit: Georgia Tech / Christopher Moore Anyone lost in a desert hallucinating mirages knows that extreme dehydration discombobulates the mind. But just two hours of...
Credit: Institute for Molecular Engineering at Argonne National Laboratory WASHINGTON, D.C., July 17, 2018 -- In response to rising water scarcity, leading Argonne National Laboratory...
Credit: Kikkawa lab, The University of Tokyo A research team led by Masahide Kikkawa, a professor of the University of Tokyo, established zebrafish mutants of...
(Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)) Surprisingly, the functions of a huge number of microbial genes are still unknown. This knowledge gap can be...
Credit: OIST In multicellular organisms, including humans, most DNA is coiled up within the cell's nucleus. A small part, however, is tucked away within the...
Credit: Photo by Steph Adams CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- In a new study in mice, researchers have identified a key protein involved in the irregular brain...
