Durian industry could suffer without the endangered fruit bat
Credit: RIMBA Scientists have discovered that Southeast Asia's endangered fruit bats - commonly known as flying foxes - play an important part in the pollination...
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Ancient petrified salamander reveals its last meal
Credit: Jérémy Tissier A new study on an exceptionally preserved salamander from the Eocene of France reveals that its soft organs are conserved under its...
Red Sea gene pool follows water flow
Credit: © 2017 Ibrahim Hoteit A collaboration between KAUST and several UK institutes has revealed that surface currents are important pathways for gene flow in...
House sparrow decline linked to air pollution and poor diet
Despite being well-adapted to urban life, house sparrow numbers are falling. A study in open-access journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution finds that compared to...
Finnish researchers discover what is on the menu for dragonflies
Credit: Tuomas Kankaanpää Researchers from the Universities of Turku and Helsinki, Finland, are the first in the world to discover which species adult dragonflies and...
EPFL Life Sciences Symposium: Frontiers in Metabolism 2017
In October 24-26, EPFL will host at the SwissTech Convention Center an exciting Life Sciences Symposium: "Frontiers in Metabolism 2017 - From systems physiology to...
Clumps as temporary storage
Credit: Group Matthias Peter / ETH Zurich Protein aggregates have a bad reputation. A number of human diseases, especially those of the nervous system, such...
Keeping moving — flat worms shed light on role of migrating stem cells in cancer
Credit: Prasad Abnave A new study carried out by the University of Oxford has used flat worms to look at the role of migrating stem...
New method for tissue regeneration, inspired by nature, described by scientists
Credit: University of Birmingham Scientists have found a way of mimicking our body's natural healing process, using cell derived nano-sized particles called vesicles, to repair...
Prehistoric squid was last meal of newborn ichthyosaur 200 million years ago
Credit: Julian Kiely. Scientists from the UK have identified the smallest and youngest specimen of Ichthyosaurus communis on record and found an additional surprise preserved...
New report gives the lay of the land on grazing livestock’s climate impact
Tuesday October 3, 2017 - Oxford, United Kingdom: An international research collaboration has shed light on the impact that grass-fed animals have on climate change....
Breakthrough cancer treatment brings hope and challenges
The first gene therapy for cancer, approved by the Food Drug Administration in August, will transform the treatment of a particular kind of cancer in...
NJIT device aimed at early detection of deadly diseases wins NJ Health Foundation backing
New Jersey Health Foundation (NJHF) has awarded NJIT engineer Eon Soo Lee a $50,000 Innovation Grant to develop a nanotechnology-enhanced biochip that would give doctors...
Unexpected findings uncover new understanding of gene expression
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that the catalytic activity of the fly enzyme Trr and mammalian MLL3/MLL4 -- members of the COMPASS family of proteins...
UK researchers seek to identify ways to relieve post-chemotherapy cognitive impairment
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 29, 2017) -- Of the 14 million cancer survivors in the United States, a significant number experience a serious side effect called...
