HKU and international researchers promote marine fisheries reform in China
Credit: Cheng Tai-sing A study highlighting the challenges and opportunities of fishery management in China has just been released in a perspective piece "Opportunity for...
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Researchers explore how Zika infection causes microcephaly
Credit: Courtesy Dr. Zhang BETHESDA, MD – Infection with Zika virus disrupts fetal brain development by interfering with the proliferation of human neural progenitor cells...
Some bats develop resistance to devastating fungal disease
Credit: J. R. Hoyt Bat populations in some places in North America appear to have developed resistance to the deadly fungal disease known as white-nose...
A virus lethal to amphibians is spreading across Portugal
Credit: Gonçalo M. Rosa A new strain of ranavirus is currently causing mass mortality in several species of amphibian in the Serra da Estrela, the...
Parent misconceptions may hinder child organ donation
Credit: C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Children in need of an organ transplant often wait longer than...
Scientists reveal new and improved genome sequence of Daphnia pulex
Credit: Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame For many, experience with Daphnia, commonly known as water fleas, ends in high school. The organism is often used...
The first urban park butterfly study in HK: HKU ecologists reveal…
Credit: The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong is home to a dazzling diversity of over 250 butterfly species, many of which can be found...
Why are Australia’s shrublands like ‘knee-high tropical rainforests’?
Credit: Etienne Laliberté MONTREAL, Jan. 12, 2017 – Some of the Earth's ecosystems host a disproportionately high number of plant species, and infertile shrublands in...
Siberian chemists have improved hydrogen sensors
Credit: Pavel Krasnov A group of scientists from the Siberian Federal University (SFU, Krasnoyarsk, Russia) and the Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry (NIIC, Novosibirsk, Russia)...
St. Jude researchers pinpoint key influenza-fighting immune trigger
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Peter Barta St. Jude Children's Research Hospital immunologists have identified the protein trigger in the body's quick-reaction innate...
Study details Zika virus disrupting fetal brain development during…
For the first time, abnormal brain development following a Zika infection during pregnancy has been documented experimentally in the offspring of a non-human primate. The...
UTEP team advances in developing vaccine for cutaneous leishmaniasis
Credit: J.R. Hernandez/UTEP Communications A research team at The University of Texas at El Paso is one step closer to developing an effective human vaccine...
Hot spots of marine biodiversity most severely impacted by global warming
Credit: F. Ramírez, I. Afán, L. S. Davis and A. Chiaradia A new study aimed at identifying areas of highest conservation priority in the world's...
Sanofi and the Institut Pasteur reward five researchers in the service of human health
Credit: Jeffrey Gordon: (c) James Byard – Washington University Antonio Lanzavecchia: (c) Alessandro Crinari Michel Nussenzweig: (c) Mario Morgado – The Rockfeller University François Leulier:...
New findings detail structure of immature Zika virus
Credit: (Purdue University image courtesy of Kuhn and Rossmann research groups) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers at Purdue University have determined the high-resolution structure of...
