Peruvian rainforest 22 times the size of Chicago named a national park
The Peruvian government announced on Sunday the designation of 3.3 million acres of Amazonian rainforest as a national park in the Sierra del Divisor mountain...
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Crop failure in the Andes
Credit: Saúl M. Tito. Kenneth Feeley, the Smathers Chair of Tropical Tree Biology in the University of Miami's Department of Biology, is an expert in...
Assessing ecosystem services: Increasing the impact on decision making
Assessments of ecosystem services (ES), aiming at informing decisions on land management, are increasing in number around the globe, but only in a few cases...
Nanosensor that lights up cancer to be tested in surgeries
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Jan. 24, 2018 – UT Southwestern Simmons Cancer Center scientists next month will begin testing a digital nanosensor...
How hooded seals are transferring contaminants to their pups
Credit: Kit Kovacs at the Norwegian Polar Institute PENSACOLA, Fla. – Environmental contaminants such as perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) can be transferred from mother to offspring...
Researcher Manel Esteller is awarded a 2016 Proof of Concept…
Dr Manel Esteller, leader of the Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program (PEBC) of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), ICREA Research Professor and University of...
African-American women with ovarian cancer — can obesity mask early symptoms?
New Rochelle, NY, April 28, 2016 — African American women with ovarian cancer are more likely to die from the disease than are White women...
Potential heart disorder cause, treatment identified
IMAGE: Lynne O'Sullivan (back to camera) and Glen Pyle conduct a cardiology exam on Roxy. Doberman pinschers are prone to inherited dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Also...
Out of sight and out of mind, sewage can actually tell us a lot about health
Photo: Casey Atkins The maxim “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” certainly describes the work of Mariana G. Matus: The fourth-year PhD student in...
Malaria parasite packs genetic material for trip from mosquitoes to humans
Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The parasite that causes malaria has not one, but two, specialized proteins that protect its messenger RNAs —...
In rats that can’t control glutamate, cocaine is less rewarding,…
Credit: Zheng-Xiong Xi and Lauren Brick Rats missing a neuroreceptor that controls the release of the neurotransmitter glutamate are less amenable to the rewarding effects...
Cryo-electron microscopy achieves unprecedented resolution using new computational methods
Credit: C. Hryc and the Chiu Lab, Baylor College of Medicine Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM)–which enables the visualization of viruses, proteins, and other biological structures at...
‘Late-life’ genes activated by biological clock to help protect against stress, aging
Credit: (Graphic courtesy of Oregon State University) CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered that a subset of genes involved in daily...
Sanford neurosurgeon’s pediatric stroke case published in…
Credit: Sanford Health FARGO, N.D. – A 9-day-old baby who suffered a normally fatal stroke was saved after a Sanford Health cerebrovascular neurosurgeon removed the...
What does congenital Zika syndrome look like?
Credit: Courtesy image Even as the Zika virus becomes more prevalent — the Centers for Disease Control reports that the number of U.S. infants born...
