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Credit: Photo courtesy of Jianlin Cheng. Jianlin Cheng has been in the business of protein structure prediction since before coming to the University of Missouri...

Toxoplasma’s balancing act explained

Credit: Matthew Bowler/EMBL The parasite Toxoplasma gondii is a silent success. It infects up to 95% of people in many regions of the world, and...

Critical link between obesity and diabetes has been identified

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – Nov. 28, 2017 – UT Southwestern researchers have identified a major mechanism by which obesity causes type 2 diabetes, which...

Walnuts may support sperm health, according to new animal research

Credit: California Walnut Commission FOLSOM, Calif., Feb. 28, 2017 – New animal research suggests eating a walnut-enriched diet may improve sperm quality by reducing lipid...

Fossilized bees were finicky pollen collectors

The ancestors of honeybees, living 50 million years ago, were fairly choosy when it came to feeding their offspring. This is shown in a study...

Satellites, airport visibility readings shed light on troops’…

Credit: NASA Using data from NASA satellites and airport visibility sensors, Veterans Affairs (VA) researchers and colleagues are extending an approach used to study air...

Scientists win UN data prize for monitoring threats to South African biodiversity hotspot

Credit: Adam Wilson BUFFALO, N.Y. — South Africa's Cape Floristic Region is one of the richest repositories of plant life in the world. Here, about...

Are patients sufficiently shielded against stray radiation during CT…

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, November 21, 2017–Radiation exposure during diagnostic imaging such as computed tomography (CT) contributes to a small,...

Research shows new neurons created through exercise don’t cause…

Credit: Texas A&M Health Science Center Research has found that exercise causes more new neurons to be formed in a critical brain region, and contrary...

Surprising discovery — how the African tsetse fly really drinks your blood

Credit: University of Bristol Researchers at the University of Bristol have been taking a close-up look at the biting mouthparts of the African tsetse fly...

Strathclyde professor receives RSE Royal Medal from Her Majesty the…

Credit: Gary Doak Photography, courtesy of the RSE. A University of Strathclyde Professor has received a prestigious award from the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE)...

Born to love superheroes

Credit: Kyoto University Japan — We recognize justice before we can talk, reports a research team in Nature Human Behaviour. The Kyoto-based study demonstrates that...

How does brain functional connectivity change from the awake to unconscious state?

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 8, 2017–A new study examined how brain functional connectivity patterns change over the continuum from...

DNA evidence shows that salmon hatcheries cause substantial, rapid…

CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new study on steelhead trout in Oregon offers genetic evidence that wild and hatchery fish are different at the DNA level,...

TSRI study identifies new type of protein clump that may be implicated…