Young birds less honest when competing against siblings
Chicks that are competing with siblings or whose parents are likely to die or switch partners tend to be less honest when begging for food,...
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Bushmeat hunting drives biodiversity declines in Central Africa
Credit: Mike Riddell DURHAM, N.C. -- Hunting has dramatically reduced wildlife biodiversity in forests near rural villages in the Central African nation of Gabon, a...
Model predicts elimination of GMO crops would cause hike in greenhouse gas emissions
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A global ban on genetically modified crops would raise food prices and add the equivalent of nearly a billion tons of...
Mislabeled seafood may be more sustainable, new study finds
Credit: Margaret Siple/University of Washington > With seafood, what you see is not always what you get. It's no secret that mislabeling is rampant around...
Scientists discover a cause of multiple resistance to cancer chemotherapy
Credit: IDIBELL A new study by researchers at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) has found a cause of multiple resistance in cancer chemotherapy. The...
Checkpoint blockade helps only a subset of patients, why?
Although many cancer patients respond favorably to immunotherapies such as nivolumab and pembrolizumab, most patients do not. Blame for treatment failures is usually attributed to...
New mouse model of ALS more closely mimics human disease
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a progressive, fatal neurological disease that attacks the nerve cells controlling voluntary muscles. No...
After Australia cut drug copays for indigenous people, hospital use declined
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A new study finds that in regions where indigenous Australians most readily accepted a government incentive to lower drug copayments, hospitalizations to...
Getting to the root of it: Predicting root biomass with electrical capacitance
Unless we're weeding the garden or tripping over one sticking out of the ground, for most of us the root systems of plants are out...
Using a patient’s own words, machine learning automatically identifies suicidal behavior
CINCINNATI -- Using a person's spoken or written words, new computer tools can identify with great accuracy whether that person is suicidal, mentally ill but...
New technique aids search for genetic roots of disease
Credit: Michael Worful Some 10 million points of genetic variation are scattered across a molecule of DNA, and those variations make us who we are...
Twenty percent of children with celiac disease do not heal on a gluten-free diet
November 7, 2016 - Even after a year on a gluten-free diet, nearly 20 percent of children with celiac disease continue to have intestinal abnormalities...
Gene network controls how many flowers and fruits plants will make in critical growth window
Credit: Lippman lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- There is staggering diversity in the number of flowers produced by each of the 2,800 or...
Across the lifespan: Emerging targets to treat mental illness
Nov. 7, 2016 - Can understanding differences between women's and men's brains lead to sex-specific treatments for mental illness? Can we apply our knowledge of...
Unlocking big genetic datasets
Credit: Wei Hao/Princeton The same algorithms that personalize movie recommendations and extract topics from oceans of text could bring doctors closer to diagnosing, treating and...
