Study suggests gut bacteria can aid recovery from spinal cord injury
Credit: Kigerl et al., 2016 Researchers from The Ohio State University have discovered that spinal cord injury alters the type of bacteria living in the...
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European Medium-Range Weather Forecast — model upgraded to best ever
Credit: ECMWF More accurate global weather predictions at record-breaking resolution Number of grid points tripled to 900 million, evenly distributed around the globe Gain in...
A horse is a horse, of course, of course — except when it isn’t
Credit: Illustration © Jorge Blanco An international team of researchers has discovered a previously unrecognized genus of extinct horses that roamed North America during the...
‘Nudges’ an inexpensive, effective way to increase…
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Keeping messages brief and simple can produce gains when trying to encourage patients to complete a...
Shape-shifting agent targets harmful bacteria in the stomach
Credit: Images courtesy of Jianjun Cheng, University of Illinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A new shape-shifting polymer can target and kill Helicobacter pylori bacteria in the...
Reduced impact logging still harms biodiversity in tropical…
Credit: Felipe Franca More than 403 million hectares of tropical forests worldwide have been earmarked for timber concessions with selective logging a common economic activity....
A moving story of FHL2 and forces
Credit: Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore Researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have revealed the molecular events..
Great apes communicate cooperatively
Credit: M. Froehlich / Max Planck Institute for Ornithology Human communication is one of the most sophisticated signalling systems, being highly cooperative and including fast...
Cardiorespiratory fitness is essential to reduce risk of coronary…
Credit: The Cooper Institute Rochester, MN, November 17, 2017 – Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a leading cause of death for men in the U.S....
Unveiling nasty act of trans-fatty acids in blood
Credit: Creative Commons Zero () license Tohoku University researchers have found that trans-fatty acids promote cell death in a more direct manner than previously thought,...
3-D footage of nematode brains links neurons with motion and behavior
Princeton University researchers have captured among the first recordings of neural activity in nearly the entire brain of a free-moving animal. The three-dimensional recordings could...
Using microfluidic devices to sort stem cells
While there are no cures for neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, many researchers believe that one could be found in neural stem cells....
Exercise, more than diet, key to preventing obesity
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Two factors–metabolism and gut microbes – have been credited by researchers as key players in the fight against obesity. However, there is...
Science Bulletin published a special topic on ‘stem cell, basis and application’
Stem cells sustain the capacity of self-renewal and differentiation into specialized cells, offering exciting promises in both basic and applied research. As an example of...
Blood pressure medication paves the way for approaches to managing…
Credit: Svein Olav Bratlie/University of Gothenburg New ways of using mechanisms behind certain blood pressure medications may in the future spare some patient groups both...