How eggs got their shapes
Credit: (Credit: Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology) The evolution of the amniotic egg -- complete with membrane and shell -- was key to vertebrates leaving...
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Worm studies investigate how grandparents’ experiences can affect our genes
Studies of human populations suggest that our health and longevity could be affected by the diets and experiences of our grandparents. For example, studies of...
UM research points to previously unknown pine marten diversity
MISSOULA - The elusive American pine marten, a little-studied member of the weasel family, might be more diverse than originally thought, according to new research...
Geology rocks the Pacific Northwest: GSA Meeting returns to Seattle
Boulder, CO, USA: Registration is open for The Geological Society of America's Annual Meeting & Exposition, to be held 22-25 October 2017 at the Washington...
How do genes get new jobs? Wasp venom offers new insights
Credit: Matthew Mann/ University of Rochester Amid the incredible diversity of living things on our planet, there is a common theme. Organisms need to acquire...
A rising star
It's a tiny marine invertebrate, no more than 3 millimeters in size. But closely related to humans, Botryllus schlosseri might hold the key to new...
Mouse study suggests how hearing a warning sound turns into fearing it over time
The music from the movie "Jaws" is a sound that many people have learned to associate with a fear of sharks. Just hearing the music...
UTEP Scientists awarded patent for Chagas disease vaccine
Credit: JR Hernandez, UTEP Communications A pair of scientists at The University of Texas at El Paso is one step closer to developing the first...
Cells in fish’s spinal discs repair themselves
Credit: Jennifer Bagwell, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke researchers have discovered a unique repair mechanism in the developing backbone of zebrafish that could give...
Lab grown human colons change study of GI disease
Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Scientists used human pluripotent stem cells to generate human embryonic colons in a laboratory that function much like natural human...
Tiny nanoparticles offer significant potential in detecting/treating disease new review of work on exosomes
Credit: Dr Marta I. Oliveira, INL, Portugal Tiny nanoparticles offer significant potential in detecting and treating disease - new review Exosomes - tiny biological nanoparticles...
Satellite data to map endangered monkey populations on Earth
Earth Observation technology can map human settlements to predict where monkey populations have declined through hunting 'High-throughput DNA sequencing' can tell which species live in...
Ecology insights improve plant biomass degradation by microorganisms
Credit: Diego Javier Jiménez Microbes are widely used to break down plant biomass into sugars, which can be used as sustainable building blocks for novel...
Cleveland Clinic discovers similarities between next-generation prostate cancer drugs
Cleveland: Cleveland Clinic researchers have shown for the first time how a class of advanced prostate cancer drugs are processed in the body and how...
Select memories can be erased, leaving others intact
Credit: Schacher Lab/Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY (June 22, 2017) -- Different types of memories stored in the same neuron of the marine...
