Media alert: Insect scientists to swarm Denver, Nov. 5-8
What: Entomology 2017, the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America Where: Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado When: November 5-8, 2017 Who: 3,000+ insect...
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New Peruvian bird species discovered by its song
Credit: Andy Kratter/Florida Museum of Natural History GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A new species of bird from the heart of Peru remained undetected for years until...
UMass Amherst microbiologists contribute to possible new anti-TB treatment path
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - As part of the long effort to improve treatment of tuberculosis (TB), microbiologists led by Yasu Morita at the...
Transformative donation of $16 million establishes new autism research centre at the Montreal Neurol
Credit: Owen Egan: McGill University A new research centre in Montreal will help lift the shroud of mystery surrounding autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and lead...
Salk scientists lead $25 million initiative to develop atlas of brain cell types
Credit: Marina Garrett LA JOLLA--(October 23, 2017) Salk Institute scientists will lead a multimillion-dollar, five-year initiative to revolutionize our understanding of the human brain by...
Novel technique explains herbicide’s link to Parkinson’s disease
Northwestern Medicine scientists have used an innovative gene editing technique to identify the genes that may lead to Parkinson's disease after exposure to paraquat, a...
NIH BRAIN Initiative builds on early advances
The National Institutes of Health has announced funding for 110 new awards totaling $169 million for the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative,...
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...
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...
