An engineer’s guide to the embryo
Credit: MechMorpho Lab/Lance Davidson PITTSBURGH (Oct. 11, 2017) ... In roughly 48 hours, the single cell of the fertilized frog egg will undergo dramatic change...
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Fever in early pregnancy linked to birth defects, animal study shows
Credit: Liu, et al. Fevers in a mother's first trimester of pregnancy increase the baby's risk for some heart defects and facial deformities such as...
Study casts doubt on warming implications of brown carbon aerosol from wildfires
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis As devastating wildfires continue to rage in the western U.S. and Canada, a team of environmental engineers at Washington...
UTA researcher earns grant to develop gas sensor to detect lung cancer from breath
Credit: UT Arlington Current methods of detecting lung cancer consist of imaging methods and invasive biopsies, which can be stressful and painful for patients. Yuze...
NIFA invests in research to help boost organic farming, ranching
WASHINGTON, D.C. Oct. 11, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced grants to help farmers...
Engineers identify key to albatross’ marathon flight
The albatross is one of the most efficient travelers in the animal world. One species, the wandering albatross, can fly nearly 500 miles in a...
Unraveling the genetics of disc disease in dogs
Credit: Katy Robertson Since the early 1900s, veterinarians have observed intervertebral disc disease -- a common cause of back pain, rear limb paralysis and inability...
Waste from paper industry supplies raw material for development of redox flow batteries
Credit: photo/©: Alexander Sell, JGU With the increasing use of renewable energies, stabilizing electricity networks is becoming an ever greater challenge. Redox flow batteries could...
Advance achieved in dry preservation of mammalian sperm cells
In a paper forthcoming in the November issue of the journal Theriogenology, a team of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and...
Watching wildfires
Credit: Michael Stambaugh, MU College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources A team of researchers from the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and...
Beyond EPA’s Clean Power decision: Climate action window could close as early as 2023
ANN ARBOR--As the Trump administration repeals the U.S. Clean Power Plan, a new study from the University of Michigan underscores the urgency of reducing greenhouse...
Where food is limited, guppy mothers gestate their young longer
Credit: Dial et. al. PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Trinidadian guppy mamas can't swap links to maternity blogs or copies of pregnancy books, yet evolution has made...
Tracking the viral parasites of giant viruses over time
Credit: Image courtesy of Trina McMahon In freshwater lakes, microbes regulate the flow of carbon and determine if the bodies of water serve as carbon...
New survey reveals concerns about impact of migraine on work productivity
ARLINGTON, Va.--October 11, 2017--A significant percentage of migraine sufferers as well as those without the disease are concerned that migraine affects work productivity, quality of...
Kune Kune piglets possess social learning skills and have an astonishingly good memory
Credit: Vetmeduni Vienna Pigs are not commonly considered to be especially intelligent. Several individual trials, however, have shown them to be very capable of learning...
