New ‘Tomato Expression Atlas’ dives deep into the fruit’s flesh
Credit: The Tomato Expression Atlas From fried green tomatoes to pizza pie, the world savors the tomato across many stages of ripeness, each with its...
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Counting chromosomes: Plant scientists solve a century-old mystery about reproduction
Credit: Martienssen Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY – Counting is vital in nature. Counting chromosomes is something that most animals, plants and even single-celled...
Workplace stress can take a toll on your brain surgeon, too
Credit: Ricardo Carrasco III/Keck Medicine of USC LOS ANGELES – When it comes to workplace stress, even doctors aren't immune to its effects. For doctors...
Livestock can uproot protected wildlife from prime real estate
Credit: Michigan State University Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability The story of wildlife conservation is usually framed as man vs. treasured wildlife. But there's...
Changing temperatures and precipitation may affect living skin of…
Credit: Jennifer LaVista, USGS Public domain Arid and semiarid ecosystems are expected to experience significant changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, which may affect soil...
Biodiversity project in Azores delivers detailed abundance data for 286 arthropod species
Credit: Pedro Cardoso In 1999, a long-term biodiversity project started at the Azores Islands (Portugal, Atlantic Ocean), the Biodiversity of Arthropods from the Laurisilva of...
LSUHealthNO awarded $2.5m grant to develop better dental filling…
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry New Orleans, LA – The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research of the National Institutes of...
Lack of opportunities promotes brood care
Credit: Wolfgang Goymann/ MPI for Ornithology Male black coucals who care for their broods alone are just as successful as pairs of the closely related...
Study shows need for adaptive powered knee prosthesis to assist…
Credit: Marc Hall, NC State University New North Carolina State University research into wearable robotics shows how amputees wearing these devices adapted when presented with...
Two Baylor College of Medicine faculty members named to National…
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Dr. Malcolm Brenner, founding director of the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's...
The pizza slice that comes at a price
A recent study has shown that emissions in major cities caused by restaurants such as pizzerias and steakhouses using wood burners can be damaging to...
Study suggests gut bacteria can aid recovery from spinal cord injury
Credit: Kigerl et al., 2016 Researchers from The Ohio State University have discovered that spinal cord injury alters the type of bacteria living in the...
Big trash pickup
Everyone would rather cook than take out the garbage. Perhaps that's why biochemists learned how cells make proteins 70 years ago, but are just now...
Vorinostat renders dormant HIV infection vulnerable to clearance
Credit: David Kinton, UNC School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC – The ability for HIV to hide in the body in a dormant state makes...
Mouse teeth providing new insights into tissue regeneration
Credit: Klein Lab / UCSF Researchers hope to one day use stem cells to heal burns, patch damaged heart tissue, even grow kidneys and other...
