Retreating Yukon glacier caused a river to disappear
Credit: Jim Best/University of Illinois The massive Kaskawulsh Glacier in northern Canada has retreated about a mile up its valley over the past century. Last...
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Amid environmental change, lakes surprisingly static
Credit: Courtesy of Samantha Oliver MADISON, Wis. — In recent decades, change has defined our environment in the United States. Agriculture intensified. Urban areas sprawled....
Clock protein controls daily cycle of gene expression by regulating chromosome loops
Credit: Yong Kim and Mitch Lazar, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA – It's well known that the human body functions on a...
Microscopic chariots deliver molecules within our cells
Credit: Danielle Grotjohn, Lander Lab LA JOLLA, CA – Feb. 9, 2018 – On the cellular highway, motor proteins called dyneins rule the road. Dyneins...
The wrong first step to revive athletes in cardiac arrest
Credit: Viskin Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 19, 2017 – About three million people have viewed the YouTube video of the death of American collegiate basketball player...
Scientists reveal the ‘Lego pieces’ that form complex…
Credit: João Marques In order to survive in a changing environment, animals and humans must integrate sensory information and their experience to select the most...
Microscopic chariots deliver molecules within our cells
Credit: Danielle Grotjohn, Lander Lab LA JOLLA, CA – Feb. 9, 2018 – On the cellular highway, motor proteins called dyneins rule the road. Dyneins...
How mice babies ensure mother’s protection
Credit: Image: Luis Hernandez-Miranda, MDC The calls of new-born mice draw the attention of their mother. A group of neuronal cells in the brain stem,...
ERC advanced grant for Carl-Philipp Heisenberg
Credit: IST Austria With two newly awarded Advanced Grants, the total number of ERC-funded projects at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria)...
TCGA findings provide molecular background for second most common kidney cancer
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Nov. 5, 2015)–Scientists with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), a National Institutes of Health-funded project, have molecularly characterized two types of the...
Targeting metals to fight pathogenic bacteria
Researchers at the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS) at Umeå University in Sweden participated in the discovery of a unique system of acquisition...
Mindfulness key to eating what you want while preventing overeating
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Americans spend more than 60 billion dollars a year on weight loss products; two-thirds of these dieters are estimated to regain more...
Late Tiassic terrestrial ecosystem changes
Credit: Photo courtesy of Andrew V. Kearns, 2012. Boulder, Colo., USA: The Norian Chinle Formation in the Southwestern United States provides a snapshot into an...
Microscopic chariots deliver molecules within our cells
Credit: Danielle Grotjohn, Lander Lab LA JOLLA, CA – Feb. 9, 2018 – On the cellular highway, motor proteins called dyneins rule the road. Dyneins...
Discharge strategies to prevent asthma readmissions
Credit: Children's National Health System Readmission rates at three months for kids hospitalized for acute asthma dropped when families received comprehensive education prior to discharge,...
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