Why mole rats are more flexible than we previously thought
One of the most interesting facts about mole rats – that, as with ants and termites, individuals specialise in particular tasks throughout their lives –...
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A non-proliferative signaling center kicks off tooth development
Credit: Laura Ahtiainen Despite extensive research on the molecular regulation of early tooth development, little is known about the cellular mechanisms driving morphogenesis prior to...
Medical mystery solved in record time
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine In a study published today in PLoS ONE, a team of researchers reports solving a medical mystery in a day's...
Tick genome reveals secrets of a successful bloodsucker
IMAGE: This is a picture of the lifecycle of Ixodes scapularis tick. Credit: Credit: CDC With tenacity befitting their subject, an international team of nearly...
Human rotavirus manipulates immune response to maintain infection
Credit: CDC/Jessica A. Allen/Alliza Eckerd. The gut of a child infected with rotavirus is like a battle ground. On one side, the virus invades the...
Airline industry could fly thousands of miles on biofuel from a new…
Credit: Claire Benjamin/University of Illinois A Boeing 747 burns one gallon of jet fuel each second. A recent analysis from researchers at the University of...
Got eczema? It may just be bad evolutionary luck, study finds
Credit: Credit: Duo BUFFALO, N.Y. — Some genetic diseases persist for generation after generation because the genes that cause them can benefit human health. Sickle...
A new index for the diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Credit: © DZD/IDM Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease has become a global epidemic. There is not only a great interest worldwide to understand the causes and...
Stopping Zika: Saint Louis University to launch human vaccine trial
ST. LOUIS — Saint Louis University's vaccine center has been tapped by the National Institutes of Health to conduct a human clinical trial of a...
Identification of protein crucial to lymphatic system development
Credit: Osaka University Osaka – Lymphatic vessels form a circulatory system that plays an important role in controlling the amount of fluid in tissues, and...
Life on the edge prepares plants for climate change
Credit: MPI f. Developmental Biology/ M. Exposito-Alonso In the first study to predict whether different populations of the same plant species can adapt to climate...
Transcription factor expression tied to medial amygdala neuronal ID,…
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON – Neurons derived from two different types of precursor cells that later develop into neurons in the medial amygdala...
Eat less and be happy — really!
IMAGE: This is from the inaugural issue of the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. Credit: Cornell Food and Brand Lab Try this on...
GI problems in autism may originate in genes, study suggests
Credit: Kara Gross Margolis, M.D., and Michael Gershon, M.D., Columbia University Medical Center NEW YORK, NY (April 25, 2016)–Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC)...
Brain ‘reads’ sentences the same in English and Portuguese
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University An international research team led by Carnegie Mellon University has found that when the brain "reads" or decodes a sentence in...
