Deadly parasite messaging tactic may help curb sleeping sickness
New insight into sleeping sickness suggests communication between parasites that cause infection could affect the severity and spread of the potentially fatal disease. When two...
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Researchers take a holistic approach to threats to humanity
What risks threaten the entire future of humanity within the next hundred years? And what should we do to protect against them? A group of...
Experts call for added focus on the impact of glacier mass loss on downstream systems
Credit: Dr. Lee Brown, University of Leeds Researchers have warned of an 'urgent worldwide need' to address a broad spectrum of cascading impacts of glacier...
Mobile women were key to cultural exchange in Stone Age and Bronze Age Europe
Credit: Stadtarchäologie Augsburg At the end of the Stone Age and in the early Bronze Age, families were established in a surprising manner in the...
Epileptic brain activity in widely used lab mice
Credit: Steinmetz et al., eNeuro (2017) Multiple laboratories have observed unusual neural activity resembling epilepsy in some lines of genetically modified mice widely used in...
Schizophrenia and memory deficits: Solving the mystery behind a most stubborn symptom
Credit: Jeffrey Zaremba/Losonczy Lab/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK -- A team of Columbia scientists has found that disruptions to the brain's center for spatial navigation...
Superfly flight simulator helps unravel navigation in the brain
Researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have identified two independent pathways in the fly brain that are integrated to allow successful navigation...
Mysterious protein-folding molecule could trigger metabolic disorders
Credit: Illustration provided courtesy of Dr. Feng Hong of the Medical University of South Carolina. The cell's response to unfolded or misfolded proteins could be...
New fluorescent dyes could advance biological imaging
Credit: Jonathan B. Grimm With a new technique to craft a spectrum of glowing dyes, chemists are no longer chasing rainbows. Swapping out specific chemical...
More ‘losers’ than ‘winners’ predicted for Southern Ocean seafloor animals
Credit: Cath Waller A new study of the marine invertebrates living in the seas around Antarctica reveals there will be more 'losers' than 'winners' over...
Team gathers unprecedented data on atmosphere’s organic chemistry
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- For a few weeks over the summer in 2011, teams of scientists from around the world converged on a small patch of...
Reindeer grazing protects tundra plant diversity in a warming climate
Credit: Elina Kaarlejärvi Climate warming reduces the number of plant species in the tundra, but plant-eating animals, such as reindeer and voles, can turn this...
Study in early stage breast cancer shows that even small tumors can be aggressive
LUGANO-MADRID, Sept. 3, 2017 - Even small tumours can be aggressive, according to a study in patients with early stage breast cancer that will be...
Heavy alcohol use alters brain functioning differently in young men and women
Scientists have found that brain functions in young men and women are changed by long-term alcohol use, but that these changes are significantly different in...
Study highlights overuse of tumor marker tests in primary and secondary care
LUGANO-MADRID, Sept. 2, 2017 - The vast majority of tumour marker tests in primary and secondary care are not necessary, according to a study that...
