Ant-plant symbioses: Adapting to changes in partner abundance
Credit: Dr. Ulrike Bauer (University of Bristol) Many ant species live in often highly specific symbiotic relationships with plants from which both partners benefit. Researchers...
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GW study finds social media course impacts online behavior in first-year medical students
WASHINGTON (March 27, 2017)--Researchers at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences found a majority of first-year medical students changed their...
NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Debbie approaching Queensland for landfall
Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the storm early on March 27, 2017 as Tropical Cyclone Debbie had...
Major genetic study identifies 12 new genetic variants for ovarian cancer
A genetic trawl through the DNA of almost 100,000 people, including 17,000 patients with the most common type of ovarian cancer, has identified 12 new...
Largest ever brain cancer study reveals new secrets to inherited risk
Scientists have uncovered a treasure trove of information about the genetic causes of brain cancer in the largest ever study of the disease. Their research...
Study provides path for new immunotherapy approaches to prostate cancer
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Prostate cancer, notoriously resistant to immunotherapy due to its immunologically cool nature, triggers two pathways to chill an immune attack...
How randomness helps cancer cells thrive
In a research effort that merged genetics, physics and information theory, a team at the schools of medicine and engineering at The Johns Hopkins University...
New genetic risk factors identify 2 distinct glioma subtypes
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine An international consortium of researchers led by Dr. Melissa Bondy, professor of medicine, associate director for population sciences at the...
MicroRNA treatment restores nerve insulation, limb function in mice with MS
Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Scientists partially re-insulated ravaged nerves in mouse models of multiple sclerosis (MS) and restored limb mobility by treating the animals...
A big leap toward tinier lines
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- For the last few decades, microchip manufacturers have been on a quest to find ways to make the patterns of wires and...
Graphene-based neural probes probe brain activity in high resolution
Credit: ICN2 Measuring brain activity with precision is essential to developing further understanding of diseases such as epilepsy and disorders that affect brain function and...
Friction shapes zebrafish embryos
Credit: IST Austria A simple ball of cells is the starting point for humans -- and zebrafish. At the end of embryonic development, however, a...
Nanocages dramatically facilitate structure formation of biomolecules
Credit: Kyoto University iCeMS Macromolecules regularly fold and unfold themselves inside cells. Their diverse three-dimensional structures help determine their functions. Understanding molecule fo..
New rice strain could help farmers predetermine harvest time
Credit: 2017 Takeshi Izawa. A new strain of rice that flowers within a certain period of time after being sprayed with commercial chemicals commonly used...
New tool allows analysis of single-cell RNA data in pre-malignant tumours
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute scientists and their collaborators have developed a new analysis tool that was able to show, for the first time, which genes...
