Digital microbes for munching yourself healthy
Hundreds of different bacterial species live in the human gut, helping us to digest our food. The metabolic processes of these bacteria are not only...
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Live cell imaging of asymmetric cell division in fertilized plant cells
Credit: ITbM, Nagoya University An international group of plant biologists have succeeded for the first time in visualizing how egg cells in plants divides unequally...
Programmable disorder
Credit: Caltech / Grigory Tikhomirov, Philip Petersen and Lulu Qian. Many self-organized systems in nature exploit a sophisticated blend of deterministic and random processes. No...
Youth fitness program, BORN TO MOVE from Les Mills, increases positive exercise outcomes
Credit: Les Mills CHICAGO - Nov. 29, 2016 - A recent study completed at Edge Hill University has found that participants in BORN TO MOVETM,...
Groundwater helium level could signal potential risk of earthquake
Credit: 2016 Yuji Sano Japanese researchers have revealed a relationship between helium levels in groundwater and the amount of stress exerted on inner rock layers...
Mysteries of enzyme mechanism revealed
Credit: Institut Laue-Langevin/ University of Leicester An international research team led by the University of Leicester has made a breakthrough advance by trapping an intermediate...
Ants communicate by mouth-to-mouth fluid exchange
Credit: Adria C. LeBoeuf Liquids shared mouth-to-mouth by social insects contain proteins and small molecules that can influence the development and organisation of their colonies,...
Immune system mechanisms — the work of Dr. Jean-Sébastien Delisle recognized
(University of Montreal) A new research has identified the unexpected role of Neuropilin-1, a membrane receptor, and the phenomenon of dendritic cell maturation, which is...
UTSA professor receives grant for therapeutic underwater virtual reality game
Credit: John Quarles/UTSA John Quarles, an associate professor of computer science at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has received a $240,000 grant...
Sometimes just watching hurts — and the signs of pain are seen in the brain
Credit: Jaakko Hotta/Aalto University Some people claim to experience pain just watching something painful to happen. This is true especially of people suffering from complex...
Harvest of nuisance black bears in New Jersey reducing human-bear conflicts
Credit: New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife LOGAN, UTAH, USA - Is there room for black bears in human-dominated New Jersey? According to Utah...
Mystery of ultra-diffuse faint galaxies solved
Credit: (Credit: NIHAO collaboration (PI A.V. Macciò, NYUAD) Over the last year, researchers have observed some very faint, diffuse galaxies. The galaxies are as faint...
Each animal species hosts a unique microbial community and benefits from it
Credit: Bordenstein Laboratory, Vanderbilt University Each animal species hosts its own, unique community of microbes that can significantly improve its health and fitness. That is...
New guidelines aim to improve understanding of scientific data
Researchers from University of East Anglia (UEA) have produced new guidelines aimed at improving the communication and understanding of scientific data - using knowledge of...
Novel silicon etching technique crafts 3-D gradient refractive index micro-optics
Credit: University of Illinois A multi-institutional research collaboration has created a novel approach for fabricating three-dimensional micro-optics through the shape-defined formation of porous ..
