Research revises our knowledge of how the brain learns to fear
Credit: Li Lab CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Our brains wire themselves up during development according to a series of remarkable genetic programs that...
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Activation of immune T cells leads to behavioral changes
Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences in Japan and collaborators have found that T cells -- immune cells that help to protect...
A step closer to a cure for adult-onset diabetes
Credit: Anna-Lena Lundqvist/Chalmers University of Technology In healthy people, exosomes - tiny structures secreted by cells to allow intercellular communication - prevent clumping of the...
Scientists identify ‘first responders’ to bacterial invasion
When bacteria enter our body, they kick-start a powerful immune response. But this chain of reactions doesn't fully account for our immediate responses. Researchers at...
Exploring disease predisposition to deliver personalized medicine
Geneticists from the University of Geneva have taken an important step towards true predictive medicine. Exploring the links between diseases and tissue-specific gene activity, they...
Unique study: more iron in lakes is making them brown
The iron concentration in lakes is increasing in many parts of northern Europe, including Sweden. This has been shown in a study in which researchers...
Discovered in plants a mechanism that corrects defects in protein folding
Credit: Ernesto Llamas Various human nervous system diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's diseases, are associated wi..
Scientists discover new gene associated with debilitating lung disease
Health scientists at the University of Leicester and University of Nottingham have heralded the discovery of a gene associated with lung fibrosis as 'a potential...
Reduced impact logging still harms biodiversity in tropical rainforests
Credit: Felipe Franca More than 403 million hectares of tropical forests worldwide have been earmarked for timber concessions with selective logging a common economic activity....
Crops evolving ten millennia before experts thought
Credit: University of Warwick Ancient peoples began to systematically affect evolution of crops up to 30,000 years ago - ten millennia before experts previously thought,...
Boost for lipid research: Austrian researchers facilitate lipid data analysis
Credit: © spectralDesign - fotolia.com No lipids, no life. In all organisms, lipids form cell walls, store energy and release it when necessary, and play...
Science shapes new century of sandwich recommendations for children at Centennial Meeting of Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Oct. 23, 2017 -- CHICAGO, IL -- Although sandwiches first appeared in American cookbooks in 1916, the role they play in the U.S. diet has...
Mongolian microfossils point to the rise of animals on Earth
Credit: Yale University New Haven, Conn. - A Yale-led research team has discovered a cache of embryo-like microfossils in northern Mongolia that may shed light...
UH researchers join national effort to study recent storms
Credit: University of Houston Two University of Houston researchers are part of an effort by the National Science Foundation to better understand how disasters such...
Transparent solar technology represents ‘wave of the future’
Credit: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. - See-through solar materials that can be applied to windows represent a massive source of untapped energy and...
