Purple plant is on the defensive
Credit: UBC Okanagan While lavender has long been known for its strong scent and soothing oils, a UBC researcher is exploring the plant's ability to...
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From River Weser to the North Sea
Around the globe, the pollution of rivers, lakes and seas with plastic litter is on the rise. A new project jointly coordinated by the University...
Brain cells that control appetite identified for first time
Credit: Professor Nicholas Dale/Ms. Greta Lazutkaite Key brain cells which control our appetite discovered by scientists at University of Warwick Tanycytes found - for the...
Preservation of floodplains is flood protection
Credit: (Photo: TUM/J. Geist) The silting of rivers and streams leads to problems for fish, mussels, and other aquatic organisms because their habitats disappear. However,...
Modeling brain connections to understand Parkinson’s disease
Some 10 million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's disease -- a debilitating condition that causes degeneration of brain nerve cells that control movement. The exact...
NIH awards $10.6 million research center grant to JAX for study of chronic fatigue
As part of a major, multi-institutional, multidisciplinary assault against myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a highly debilitating and poorly understood chronic disease, Jac..
Two new crustacean species discovered on Galician seabed
Credit: José Antonio Peñas (SINC) The fauna of deep seabed tends to be relatively unknown due to the difficulty of collecting samples at great depths....
The benefits & dangers when genetic testing companies partner with orphan drug developers
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 27, 2017-Pharmaceutical companies developing Orphan Drugs are increasingly partnering with direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic te..
Anxious moms may give clues about how anxiety develops
Moms may be notorious worriers, but babies of anxious mothers may also spend more time focusing on threats in their environment, according to a team...
Cellular ‘message in a bottle’ may provide path to new way of treating disease
Key takeaways: Extracellular vesicle ARMMs carry receptors that allow signaling without direct contact between cells. Researchers hope to engineer ARMMs to send therapeutics directly to...
A first look at geographic variation in Gentoo penguin calls
Credit: M. Lynch Vocal communication is central to the lives of many birds, which use sound to attract mates and defend territories. Penguins are no...
Songbird populations may indicate trouble in northwestern forests
Credit: J. Livaudais Populations of many North American songbirds are declining, and in many cases we don't understand why--for example, whether the problem lies with...
Tree-dwelling, coconut-cracking giant rat discovered in Solomon Islands
Credit: Velizar Simeonovski, The Field Museum Remember the movie The Princess Bride, when the characters debate the existence of R.O.U.S.es (Rodents of Unusual Size), only...
DNA-level biomarker can predict overall survival for rare brain tumors
COLUMBUS, Ohio - MGMT promoter methylation status -- information gathered at a DNA-level -- can help predict overall survival for patients with a rare form...
UA Cancer Center team identifies a switch that may help target dormant cancer cells
Credit: Dr. Cecil Fox, National Cancer Institute TUCSON, Ariz. - A study by scientists at the University of Arizona and the University of Pittsburgh may...
