Researchers use LiDAR to locate invasive fish and preserve a national treasure
Credit: Joseph A. Shaw, Montana State University WASHINGTON -- For decades the National Park Service has been locked in a battle against lake trout, an...
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Key enzyme for production of second-generation ethanol discovered in Brazilian Amazon
Credit: Mario Tyago Murakami Second-generation ethanol (also called cellulosic ethanol) open perspectives for optimizing alcohol production. Since 2G ethanol is obtained from from sugarcane straw...
New research shows that wasps drum to alert one another of food nearby
Credit: Benjamin Taylor, LaGuardia Community College LONG ISLAND CITY, NY--Have you ever had to shout to call your family to the dinner table? Or watched...
Savanna chimpanzees suffer from heat stress
Credit: Erin Wessling During their evolutionary history hominins underwent physiological and behavioral changes to cope with and adapt to more open and hotter environments. These...
Love hurts: Spats with spouse may worsen chronic pain, other symptoms
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- A fight with a spouse may end in hurt feelings, but for those with chronic conditions like arthritis or diabetes, those...
Scientists crack how primordial life on Earth might have replicated itself
Credit: Philipp Holliger, MRC LMB Scientists have created a new type of genetic replication system which demonstrates how the first life on Earth - in...
A green approach to making ammonia could help feed the world
"This new... Credit: UCF: Karen Norum A UCF research team with collaborators at Virginia Tech have developed a new "green" approach to making ammonia that...
Zebrafish heart development reveals key insight into inherited heart defects
Credit: Almary Guerra Scientists have shown for the first time that the blueprint for the four chambers of the human heart exists in the humble...
Traditional knowledge sheds light on changing East Greenland climate and polar bear hunt
Inuit polar bear subsistence hunters from two East Greenland regions, Tasiilaq and Ittoqqortoormiit, report changes to their hunting patterns as well as polar bear distribution...
Taming random gene changes as our bodies start to form
Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Scientists exploring how to tame random gene fluctuations as the embryos that become our bodies start to form have identified...
Penn study finds that different diseases elicit distinct sets of exhausted T cells
Credit: John Wherry, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania; Immunity PHILADELPHIA - The battle between the human immune system and long-term, persisting...
Cleveland Clinic receives $2 million grant to study cancer genetics and radiation effectiveness
Tuesday, May 15, 2018, CLEVELAND: Can the genetic makeup of their cancers predict how patients with lung cancer will respond to radiation therapy? And can...
Genetic fixer-uppers may help predict bladder cancer prognosis
HERSHEY, Pa. -- Mutations in genes that help repair damage to DNA may aid in predicting the prognosis of patients with bladder and other related...
Scientists’ discovery in Yellowstone ‘extremely relevant’ to origin of life
Credit: MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN -- Montana State University scientists have found a new lineage of microbes living in Yellowstone National Park's thermal...
Malaria detectable in olfactory cocktail
Credit: Graphic: ETH Zurich / CDC, James Gathany Malaria is still a deadly disease in tropical and subtropical regions. Every year the disease infects more...
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