The two faces of rot fungi
Yoghurt, beer, bread and specialities such as tasty blue cheeses or good wine -- special microorganisms and refining processes first produce the pleasant flavours and...
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Bug spray accumulation in the home
Warmer temperatures can lead to a flurry of unwelcome guests to our house - flies, mosquitoes, fleas, wasps, bedbugs and lice. Pyrethroids are a common...
On polygamous females and single-parent males
Credit: Photo: Bielefeld University/ L. Eberhart-Phillips Male plovers survive more successfully in the wild than females. Behavioural researchers at Bielefeld University have studied how sex...
Brisbane Airport named Australia’s first dementia-friendly airport at guide launch
Credit: Brisbane Airport Corporation Brisbane Airport was named Australia's first dementia-friendly airport by Alzheimer's Australia at the launch today in the International Terminal of a...
FAU launches new approach to preventing dementia
Credit: Florida Atlantic University Is it possible to prevent dementia from happening in the first place? That is what a leading neuroscientist at Florida Atlantic...
News from the pathogen that causes sleeping sickness
Credit: (Picture: Tim Krüger und Markus Engstler) The life-threatening African trypanosomiasis, also called sleeping sickness, is caused by protozoa of the species Trypanosoma brucei. A...
An integrated perspective on diabetic, alcoholic, and drug-induced neuropathy
Despite its pervasiveness, many physicians are unfamiliar with how best to treat of NeuP, partly due to few reviews available that integrate basic science with...
The ‘Star dust’ wasp is a new extinct species named after David Bowie’s alter ego
Credit: Dr. Elijah J. Talamas During her study on fossil insects of the order Hymenoptera at China's Capitol Normal University, student Longfeng Li visited the...
Don’t lose sleep over sharing your bed with your pet or kids
About half of all pet owners share their beds or bedrooms with their pets at night. Although this has been the case through the ages,...
NRL issued patent for solar microbial fuel cell
Credit: (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory) WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, has received a U.S. patent for...
How serious is binge drinking among college students with disabilities?
Los Angeles, CA (June 22, 2017) A new study finds that college students with disabilities binge drink more often than their non-disabled student peers. The...
Paracetamol during pregnancy can inhibit masculinity
Paracetamol is popular for relieving pain. But if you are pregnant, you should think twice before popping these pills according to the researchers in a...
Studies of US Lassa fever patient offer clues about immune response, viral persistence
When an American nurse working in West Africa became ill with Lassa fever and was evacuated to the U.S. for treatment in 2016, it provided...
Secondhand smoke exposure among nonsmoking adult cancer survivors has declined
Bottom Line: From 1999/2000 to 2011/2012, exposure to secondhand smoke among nonsmoking adult cancer survivors declined from 39.6 percent to 15.7 percent, but rates of...
More guns now being purchased for self-defense than recreation
Ann Arbor, MI, June 22, 2017 - Although firearm violence kills or injures 100,000 Americans each year, most scientific research tends to focus on two...
