Study shows how HIV is shielded from immune attack
Credit: UNSW Scientists from UNSW Sydney and the UK have discovered that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) hijacks a small molecule from the host cell...
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What does the koala genome tell us about the taste of eucalyptus?
Credit: Kyoto University / Takashi Hayakawa Koalas have long captured people's hearts and minds thanks to their cuddly features and seemingly relaxed demeanor. Now, in...
American Association of Feline Practitioners releases new feline anesthesia guidelines
The American Association of Feline Practitioners (AAFP) today released the first feline-specific anesthesia guidelines to the veterinary community, which are published in the Journal of...
Immune discovery should help develop improved vaccines for infants and newborns
Scientists have just identified a class of 'danger signals' that are highly efficient at triggering an immune response in infants and newborns. They believe their...
What separates the strong from weak among connections in the brain
Credit: Littleton lab / MIT Picower Institute To work at all, the nervous system needs its cells, or neurons, to connect and converse in a...
Research update: Cellular ‘garbage disposal’ has another job
Johns Hopkins researchers have found that the cellular "garbage disposal," known to scientists as proteasomes, may not only be responsible for the removal of cellular...
Rising carbon dioxide levels pose a previously unrecognized threat to monarch butterflies
Credit: Austin Thomason/Michigan Photography ANN ARBOR--A new study conducted at the University of Michigan reveals a previously unrecognized threat to monarch butterflies: Mounting levels of...
Stop antibiotics before resistance ‘tipping point’
Treatments using antibiotics should stop as soon as possible to prevent patients passing the "tipping point" of becoming resistant to their effects, new research has...
New ‘scaly’ snails species group following striking discoveries from Malaysian Borneo
Credit: Siti Khadijah Reduan Six new species of unique land snails whose shells are covered with what look like scales have been described from the...
Finding a weak link in the frightful parasite Schistosoma
Credit: Bo Wang, Stanford University The parasitic disease schistosomiasis is one of the developing world's worst public health scourges, affecting hundreds of millions of people,...
Ban plastic to save the heritage of world’s oldest and largest inhabited river island
Credit: Queen's University Belfast A Queen's University Belfast researcher is working with an Indian community to transform the world's largest and oldest inhabited river island...
The relationship between alcohol outlets and traffic crashes
A new study by the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation examines the relationship between the number and location of...
Purdue startup developing novel treatment for life-threatening lung condition
Credit: Davis Arick, Spirrow Therapeutics WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University-affiliated startup developing a novel treatment for a life-threatening lung condition known as acute...
California’s cap-and-trade air quality benefits mostly go out of state
Credit: Tony Webster, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) During the first three years of California's five-year-old cap-and-trade program, the bulk of greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions...
New report says individual research results should be shared with participants more often
WASHINGTON - When conducting research involving the testing of human biospecimens, investigators and their institutions should routinely consider whether and how to return individual research...
