Sticking your neck out: How did plesiosaurs swim with such long necks?
Credit: Ms Pernille V Troelsen When dinosaurs ruled the land, plesiosaurs ruled the oceans. Famous for their incredibly long necks - some of which were...
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Whale attack simulations reveal prey escape strategies
Credit: Goldbogen Lab, Hopkins Marine Station Humpback whales feed from a range of species that have adapted to escape their fate in a variety of...
Genetics may lie at the heart of crop yield limitation
Credit: Dr Nick Pullen You might think that plants grow according to how much nutrition, water and sunlight they are exposed to, but new research...
Removal of invasive shrub could be an easy way to help reduce malaria transmission
Credit: Muller et al., Malaria Journal, 2017' Removing the flowers of an invasive shrub from mosquito-prone areas might be a simple way to help reduce...
Ca2+, the intercellular signal in arterioles
Vasoconstriction must be balanced with vasodilation, particularly in the arterioles that supply tissues with blood. Endothelial cells protrude through holes in the internal elastic lamina...
DNA of early Neanderthal gives timeline for new modern human-related dispersal from Africa
Credit: © Photo Museum Ulm Ancient mitochondrial DNA from the femur of an archaic European hominin is helping to resolve the complicated relationship between modern...
Study finds automated embryo assessment system more accurate than that of embryologists
Geneva, 4 July 2017: Embryo quality has long been considered the main determinant of implantation and pregnancy in IVF. Morphology - a visual assessment of...
The transfer of chromosomally ‘abnormal’ embryos can still result in pregnancy in IVF
Geneva, 4 July 2017: IVF embryos whose cells have mixed chromosomal profiles - one normal, another abnormal - still have the potential to implant in...
Gigantic crocodile with T. rex teeth was a top land predator of the Jurassic in Madagascar
Credit: Giovanni Bindellini Little is known about the origin and early evolution of the Notosuchia, hitherto unknown in the Jurassic period. New research on fossils...
Consumption of high-fructose corn syrup increased in Canada after tariffs lowered in NAFTA
Lower tariffs on high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) were linked to higher supply and likely consumption of added...
Consortium receives funding to discover, develop and manufacture new antibiotics
A consortium of scientists from Ingenza Ltd (Edinburgh), the National Physical Laboratory (NPL, London) and the University of Plymouth has received funding of £933k from...
Ensuring carpoolers are compatible is key to ridesharing success
Ensuring that would-be carpoolers are riding with people they actually like could potentially decrease car use by nearly 60 per cent, research from a professor...
Personalized metabolic therapy treatment shows improvement on atypical Rett syndrome
Credit: IDIBELL A translational, multicenter study carried out by research groups of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), San Juan de Dios Hospital (HSJD), the...
Female cancer survivors are one-third less likely to achieve pregnancy than women in general population
Geneva, 3 July 2017: For the first time, a large population study has quantified the chance of pregnancy after treatment for cancer diagnosed in girls...
Freeze-frames of enzymes in action have implications for a new cancer treatment concept
Credit: Joshua-Tor lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Over millions of years of evolution, cells have developed myriad ways of regulating the processes that...
