What happens when parents comment on their daughter’s weight?
Credit: Daniel Miller The less you comment on your daughter's weight, the less likely she is to be dissatisfied with her weight as an adult...
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Pollution resulting from burning fossil fuels reaches the open ocean…
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are pollutants which come from burning fossil fuels, fires, oil spillages, and other anthropogenic and natural sources. They are transported from continental...
Immune system link to kidney disease risk, research finds
A gene which forms part of our body's first line of defence against infection may be associated with an increased risk with a type of...
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz obtains approval for Humboldt Professorship in Biology
Credit: photo/©: Stowers Institute Nominated by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH (IMB), chromosome researcher Professor Peter Baumann has...
Orangutan able to guess a taste without sampling it, just like us
Credit: Tomas Persson Without having tasted a specific new juice mix before, an orangutan in a Swedish zoo has enough sense to know whether it...
The intestine has a reservoir of stem cells that are resistant to chemotherapy
Credit: Franscisco Barriga, IRB Barcelona The intestine has a high rate of cellular regeneration due to the wear and tear originated by its function degrading...
Tourassi named top scientist at ORNL’s annual Awards night
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 28, 2017 — Georgia Tourassi of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Computing and...
New study compares bone-inducing properties of 3-D-printed mineralized…
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 13, 2017–A new study of bone formation from stem cells seeded on 3D-printed bioactive scaffolds...
Preventing too much immunity
Credit: Osaka University Scientists at the Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka University, Japan, report a new molecular mechanism that could explain the cause of...
Trauma in a bee
Credit: Wolfgang Rutkies Jena (Germany) With the arrival of spring many insects leave their winter quarters. Presently swarms of the mining bee (Andrena vaga) emerge...
Fossil ‘winged serpent’ is a new species of ancient snake, Penn doctoral…
Credit: Image by Steven Jasinski An ancient sink hole in eastern Tennessee holds the clues to an important transitional time in the evolutionary history of...
Shaping up against pathogens
Credit: © Chris Smart, NYSAES, Geneva NY A missing link in the complex molecular pathway by which plants resist pathogens has been identified by an...
$1.225M Viertel Fellowship to advance critical lung research
Lung researcher Dr Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat has won a competitive $1.225 million Viertel Fellowship for an ambitious research program to advance our understanding of lung development...
Coral gardening is benefiting Caribbean reefs, study finds
Credit: Stephanie Schopmeyer, UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science MIAMI–A new study found that Caribbean staghorn corals (Acropora cervicornis) are benefiting from "coral...
Learning how to fine-tune nanofabrication
Credit: Kyoto University iCeMS Daniel Packwood, Junior Associate Professor at Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), is improving methods for constructing ti..
