Venom becomes more potent as brown snakes age
Credit: Stewart Macdonald The "blood nuking" capabilities of adult brown snake venom only come about after an amazing transformation. New research led by University of...
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The eyes are the window into the brain
Our eyes are constantly moving, whether we notice or not. They jump from one focus point to another and even when we seem to be...
NSF makes new awards to advance Science of Learning
Credit: John Consoli, University of Maryland; John C. Williams, Humanoid Engineering & Intelligent Robotics (HEIR) Lab, Marquette University; Diane Quinn; SciGirls, Twin Cities Public Television;...
‘Daedalus dilemma’ of the immune system
Credit: Copyright: kuco, Fotolia.com This news release is available in German. The dilemma of our immune system is comparable to the story of Icarus and...
Hazardous contamination found around lead battery recycling plants in…
Credit: Occupational Knowledge International San Francisco, Jan. 18, 2018 – Extensive lead contamination was found in lead battery recycling plants and surrounding communities in seven...
Drug discovery: Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s spurred by…
Credit: From Zhang et al NSMB (2017). Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are not the same. They affect different regions of the brain and have...
Michelangelo’s Medici Chapel may contain hidden symbols of female anatomy
Credit: Clinical Anatomy Michelangelo often surreptitiously inserted pagan symbols into his works of art, many of them possibly associated with anatomical representations. A new analysis...
Epilepsy drug discovered in fish model shows promise in small…
Credit: Image courtesy of Scott Baraban, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco. "Bench-to-bedside" describes research that has progressed from basic science in animal models that...
UTA engineering professor to use data mining to help patients’…
Credit: UT Arlington A researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington is working to develop big data mining tools that will integrate multiple modalities...
New discoveries on evolution can save endangered species
Traditionally, the evolutionary development of an insect species has been explained by the notion that the female insect chooses her male partner based on size...
Forsyth Institute researcher Floyd Dewhirst named as AAAS Fellow
Credit: The Forsyth Institute. Cambridge, MA – November 20, 2017 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) today announced Forsyth Institute senior...
Seven research teams receive Intermountain-Stanford grant award
Credit: Intermountain Healthcare Stanford Medicine and Intermountain Healthcare have announced the recipients of more than $500,000 in seed grants focused on transforming healthcare. The seven...
Control mechanism unveiled for gene that causes Opitz syndrome
Credit: Kobe University Opitz G/BBB (Opitz) syndrome is a hereditary disorder that affects people in different ways, causing malformations in medial (midline) organs and structures,...
SMART: Facial recognition for molecular structures
Credit: Chen Zhang, Bill Gerwick An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has developed a method to identify the molecular...
‘Vampires’ may have been real people with this blood disorder
Porphyrias, a group of eight known blood disorders, affect the body’s molecular machinery for making heme, which is a component of the oxygen-transporting protein, hemoglobin....
