Fruit discovery could provide new treatments for obesity, type 2…
A combination of two compounds found in red grapes and oranges could be used to improve the health of people with diabetes, and reduce cases...
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Pulling power reveals new insights into membrane dynamics in human cells
Credit: University of Exeter Organelles are the functional units of a cell. Like different parts of a production line in a factory, they perform specialised...
Research reveals swaths of Asia inhabited by surprisingly related ‘Lizards of the Lost…
Credit: R.M. Brown LAWRENCE — A new paper appearing in Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows a varied collection of lizards throughout Asia to...
‘Switchable’ smart windows reduce energy consumption…
Credit: Eindhoven University of Technology Smart windows that act as blinds in the summer and let all the sunlight through in the winter. That's the...
Dangerous drug interactions uncovered with data science
Credit: E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune NEW YORK, NY (October 10, 2016)–Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center and the Data Science Institute at Columbia University have...
A brain link to autism
In a discovery that could offer valuable insights into understanding, diagnosing, and even treating autism, Harvard scientists for the first time have linked a specific...
Resistance to key HIV drug ‘concerningly common’
HIV drug resistance to tenofovir, an antiretroviral drug vital to most modern HIV treatment and prevention strategies, is surprisingly and worryingly common according to a...
Gigantic crocodile with T. rex teeth was a top land predator of the…
Credit: Giovanni Bindellini Little is known about the origin and early evolution of the Notosuchia, hitherto unknown in the Jurassic period. New research on fossils...
Study reveals significant role of dust in mountain ecosystems
Credit: Lindsay Arvin Trees growing atop the Bald Mountain Granite in the southern Sierra Nevada rely on nutrients from windblown atmospheric dust — more than...
Honeycomb maze offers significant improvement over current spatial navigation tests
Credit: Sainsbury Wellcome Centre A powerful new tool for the study of spatial memory was today described in Nature as a significant improvement over the...
Yale cancer researchers propose new ways to select patients for clinical trials
Credit: Yale Cancer Center New Haven, Conn. — Many clinical trials for breast cancer fail to give clear answers on the efficacy of new therapies,...
Alzheimer’s disease found to be a diabetic disorder of the brain
Credit: Shigeki Moriguchi Researchers at Tohoku University have found a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, by noticing a similarity in the way insulin signaling works...
Study finds local fidelity key to ocean-wide recovery of humpback…
Credit: Photo Credit: National Park Service photo under NMFS Scientific Research permit #945-1776-01 NEWPORT, Ore. – Humpback whales can migrate thousands of miles to reach...
Researchers discover that a ‘muscle’ cancer is not really a muscle cancer
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital St. Jude Children's Research Hospital oncologists have discovered the cell type that gives rise to rhabdomyosarcoma, the most prevalent...
A simple and efficient 3-D fabrication technique for bio-inspired hierarchical structures
WASHINGTON — Nature is no doubt the world's best biological engineer, whose simple, exquisite but powerful designs have inspired scientists and engineers to tackle the...
