Induced pluripotent stem cells--stem cell-like cells that have been reprogrammed from normal body cells--are a promising avenue of regenerative medicine, and are currently being tested...
Credit: Victor O. Leshyk, website: victorleshyk.com Mass extinctions were followed by periods of low diversity in which certain new species dominated wide regions of the...
Credit: Harriet McHale/SHSU HUNTSVILLE, TX (10-10-17) -- A home-brewing technique used to extract morphine from unwashed poppy seeds can produce lethal doses of the drug,...
Credit: IGDB The striking capacity for plants to adapt their growth and development to an ever-changing environment is mediated by diverse plant hormones that regulate...
Credit: © 2017 Till Rothig and Anna Roik Red Sea surgeonfish use metabolically diverse giant bacteria to digest different types of algae, according to new...
Credit: IDIBELL Researchers from the Hereditary Cancer group of the Oncobell Program of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) - Hereditary Cancer Program of the...
Fresh insight into how a harmful parasite harnesses the energy it needs to function could point towards therapies to prevent potentially fatal diseases. New understanding...
Credit: Lancaster University Planting trees can reduce flood risk, but a high intensity forest land use, such as grazing, can counteract the positive effect of...
Conservationists work to save the planet, and few are as knowledgeable when it comes to the environmental pressures of the Anthropocene. However, the first wide-ranging...
At its autumn session, the Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) approved the establishment of two new Senate Commissions. The Permanent Senate...
Male black-finned goodeid or mexcalpique fish know what they want when they pick a female to mate with; they prefer them big-bellied and as orange...
New research from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, to be published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry on Oct. 13, has found that...
Credit: Karen Kloth Researchers at Umeå University and Wageningen University have discovered how plants can defend themselves against aphids. They recorded aphid behavior on video,...
Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience The brain is composed of distinct regions that differ in their functional roles and cellular architecture. For example,...
Humans are considered to be very prosocial in comparison to other animals, and many experiments have confirmed this idea. However, most of these experiments have...
