‘Lost’ 99 percent of ocean microplastics to be identified…
Credit: University of Warwick Smallest microplastics in oceans – which go largely undetected – identified more effectively with innovative and cheap new method, developed by...
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Dr. Richard Allman to deliver prestigious 2017 Henderson Lecture
Credit: (C) 2017, American Geriatrics Society The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) announced that Richard M. Allman, MD, Chief Consultant for Geriatrics & Extended Care Services,...
Carbon-based approaches for saving rainforests should include biodiversity studies
Credit: Miguel Leal New York (March 9, 2017) – Conservationists working to safeguard tropical forests often assume that old growth forests containing great stores of...
Artificial muscles, tendons would make prosthetic limbs more lifelike
Credit: University of Houston An engineer from the University of Houston has received a $500,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to develop artificial...
A new type of monitoring provides information about the life of bacteria in microdroplets
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski In the future, it will be possible to carry out tests of new drugs on bacteria much more efficiently using...
Scientists identify the segmentation and consolidation mechanism of long-term memories
Credit: IDIBELL A study led by the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) has identified a neural mechanism in humans that allows us to segment our...
Bioreactors ready for the big time
Credit: Brandon C. Goeller, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. URBANA, Ill. – Last summer, the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone" spanned more than 6,400...
Echo templates aid mental mapping in bats
Credit: Vanderelst et al., eLife, 2016 A study published in eLife provides new insights on how bats recognise their surroundings to help them build mental...
The Red Queen rules
Leave it to evolutionary biologists to name a theory from a line in Alice in Wonderland. In Lewis Carroll's book Through the Looking Glass, the...
Electron microscopy uncovers unexpected connections in fruit fly brain
Credit: Eichler et al., Janelia Research Campus What was once thought to be a done-and-dusted map of the fruit fly brain has gotten a second...
Socially meaningful sounds can change ear, improve hearing, study…
ATLANTA–Hearing socially meaningful sounds can change the ear and enable it to better detect those sounds, according to researchers at Georgia State University who studied...
Nature gem within the city: What grows in the biodiversity-rich Bukit Nanas Forest Reserve
Credit: Imin Kamin Established as early as 1900, Bukit Nanas Forest Reserve (BNFR) is the oldest of its kind in Malaysia, offering a biodiversity- rich...
Almonds may help boost cholesterol clean-up crew
Credit: Patrick Mansell Eating almonds on a regular basis may help boost levels of HDL cholesterol while simultaneously improving the way it removes cholesterol from...
UC Riverside molecular biochemist named to German National Academy of…
Credit: IIGB, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Katayoon Dehesh, the director of the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB) and the Ernst and Helen Leibacher...
CAS scientists discover BCAS2 involved in alternative mRNA splicing in spermatogonia and…
Credit: LI Lei Alternative splicing significantly expands the form and function of the genome of organisms with limited gene number and is especially important for...
