Monarch butterflies disappearing from western North America
Credit: Candace Fallon VANCOUVER, Wash. - Monarch butterfly populations from western North America have declined far more dramatically than was previously known and face a...
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New book on Cell Polarity from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: Travis R. Ruch and Joanne N. Engel, University of California, San Francisco Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) announced...
Extreme weather has limited effect on attitudes toward climate policies
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- People who recently experienced severe weather events such as floods, storms and drought are more likely to support policies to adapt to...
Unraveling the ocean’s secrets
In the absence of carbon, life on Earth cannot exist. Yet much of how this fundamental element circulates throughout the planet's oceans remains a scientific...
Novo Biosciences receives federal grant to advance potential heart drug
Credit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE - Novo Biosciences Inc., a spinoff of the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, has announced that...
New porcelain crab species from Colombia named
Credit: Credit: Alexandra Hiller Despite their names, hermit crabs, king crabs and horseshoe crabs are not true crabs. Neither are porcelain crabs, decapod crab-like crustaceans...
CWRU researcher receives NIH grant to expand countermeasures against chemical threats
Kurt Lu, MD, assistant professor of dermatology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has received a five year, $3.9 million grant from the...
Discovery of chromosome motor supports DNA loop extrusion
It is one of the great mysteries in biology: how does a cell neatly distribute its replicated DNA between two daughter cells? For more than...
UT Austin study raises question: Why are fossilized hairs so rare?
Credit: Image modified from Eliason et al. (2017) PRSB. When most people hear the word fossil, they probably think of gigantic leg bones or sharp...
Cilia: ‘The bouncer’ of bacteria
Credit: Lab of Margaret McFall-Ngai, Pacific Biosciences Research Center at the University of Hawaii Imagine a club scene--a bouncer at a velvet rope selects which...
How tails help geckos and other vertebrates make great strides
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A wagging tail is often associated with dogs' emotions, but the side-to-side motion may also help them take longer...
Science: Sharpest image of Alzheimer’s fibrils shows previously unknown details
Credit: Forschungszentrum Jülich / HHU Düsseldorf / Gunnar Schröder Jülich / Düsseldorf / Hamburg / Maastricht, 7 September 2017 - A team of researchers from...
3-D organoids and RNA sequencing reveal the crosstalk driving lung cell formation
Credit: Joo-Hyeon Lee (Boston Children's Hospital/Cambridge Stem Cell Institute UK) To stay healthy, our lungs have to maintain two key populations of cells: the alveolar...
Mediterranean-style diet may eliminate need for reflux medications
A plant-based, Mediterranean-style diet has been shown to provide the same medical benefits for treating laryngopharyngeal reflux as popular reflux medications. This is according to...
Neuroscientists explore the risky business of self-preservation
A critical survival decision for all animals is when, where and how to escape from a looming threat. A Northwestern University research team using multi-neuron...
