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...
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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,...
New images reveal how the ear’s sensory hairs take shape
Credit: Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University Our ears are exquisite detection instruments, capable of discerning a whisper or distinct notes of music...
Study: Many parents of children with disabilities don’t make care plans
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Fewer than half of parents of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities make long-term plans about...
Folding of the cerebral cortex — identification of important…
Credit: Kanazawa University The human brain is highly developed with higher functions compared to other animals, thanks to which humans are believed to have acquired...
A super resolution view of chemical reactions
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski Researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences have demonstrated, using a super resolution microscopic...
Metals known to have harmful health effects found in indigenous exposed to oil spills
Credit: Cristina O'Callaghan Gordo/ISGlobal People from two indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon who live close to the country's longest oil pipeline have mercury, cadmium...
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