Disaster recovery requires rebuilding livelihoods
Credit: Michigan State University Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability The short-term losses people suffer when natural disasters strike can turn into long-term poverty if...
NEWS INDEX
New centre to build wine industry’s competitive edge
Defining Australian wines' unique flavours, making vines more robust, defeating disease and introducing more innovation to winemaking are among the key goals of a new...
Study examines how pathogens affect bird migration
Whether long-distance animal migration facilitates or hampers pathogen transmission depends on how infections affect the routes and timing of migrating hosts. In a Journal of...
Restricting unwanted immune reactions
Credit: Vogl et al./ J. Clin. Invest. In the body, the immune system often begins its response to various attackers in the same way: the...
Male vervet monkeys use punishment and coercion to de-escalate costly intergroup fights
Credit: Jean Arseneau-Robar, UZH Male vervet monkeys attack members of their own group to prevent them from escalating intergroup encounters into high-risk fights, or to...
NUST MISIS scientists prove the toxicity of silver nanoparticles
Credit: © NUST MISIS NUST MISIS scientists and their colleagues from the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) have proved the high toxicity of silver nanoparticles...
Scientists stunned by decline of birds during epic Southern African roadtrip
Credit: Beckie Garbett A two year project to repeat a famous bird survey by driving over 20, 000km in a 4x4 across Botswana has confirmed...
World’s most efficient production of succinate from carbon dioxide
Credit: Kobe University Succinate is widely used as a raw ingredient for petrochemicals, and there is high demand for a way of producing succinate that...
Medical departments of Kazan University work on treatments for hereditary pathologies
Newest results were showcased at the International Myology School in Moscow on 16th - 19th May 2018. KFU was represented by Junior Research Associate Mikhail...
Strengthening indigenous Arctic voices in IPBES’ Global Biodiversity Assessment 2019
Credit: Jan Miko Helsinki, Finland -- The University of Helsinki hosts a groundbreaking dialogue meeting Wednesday-Thursday June 6-7 bringing together indigenous representatives and decision makers..
As mystery deepens over the cause of Alzheimer’s, a UB lab seeks new answers
Credit: Credit: Douglas Levere/University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. -- For more than 20 years, much of the leading research on Alzheimer's disease has been guided...
Avoiding catastrophe: Yeast study reveals clues to maintaining genome size
Credit: Jovana Drinjakovic and Tina Sing As cells divide, they must accurately split their DNA between the two daughter cells or risk having an uneven...
Simpler model gets to the point with proteins
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 6, 2018) - Computational models have come a long way in their ability to simulate the most basic...
Wellcome Sanger Institute sequences reference genomes of 3,000 dangerous bacteria
HINXTON, U.K. and MENLO PARK, Calif. - The genomes of more than 3,000 bacteria, including some of the world's most dangerous, have been sequenced by...
Scientists work to dissolve the NETs that worsen TBI damage
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (June 6, 2018) - Immune cells that are first responders to a traumatic brain injury appear...
