New species of ground beetle described from a 147-year-old specimen
Credit: James K. Liebherr While new species are most commonly described based on recent field collections, undertaken at poorly explored places, some are identified in...
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Unlikely couple: Liaison between a Sika deer and a Japanese snow monkey
Credit: Alexandre Bonnefoy In 2014 reports of an Antarctic fur seal coercing king penguins into sexual relations made headlines worldwide, as it was the first...
New research sheds light on why plants change sex
Plants with a particular breeding system change their sex depending on how much light they receive, new scientific research has revealed. The ability of plants...
Scrapping excessive neural connection helps build new connections
Credit: Osaka University The formation and refinement of neural networks is known to be often an activity-dependent process, but mechanisms and nature of activity are...
More individual therapy for blood cancer patients
Because it is impossible to predict which acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) patients will benefit, all patients are routinely treated with chemotherapy although only some will...
Telerehabilitation through internet improve life of women suffering breast cancer
(University of Granada) Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) and from hospitals Virgen de las Nieves and San Cecilio (Granada) have proved that telerehabilitation...
The importance of the glutamine metabolism in colon cancer
Credit: Osaka University The importance of glutamine metabolism for colon cancer was revealed by Masamitsu Konno, Ph.D, Masaaki Miyo, M.D. Ph.D, Masaki Mori, M.D. Ph.D...
People with early-onset Parkinson’s disease may benefit from boosting niacin in diet
Credit: University of Leicester Team studied fruit flies with a mutation that mimics the human disease Niacin/Vitamin B3 is found in a variety of foods...
Study shows biological changes that could underlie higher psychosis risk in immigrants
TORONTO, Jan. 10, 2017 - A new study could explain how migrating to another country increases a person's risk of developing schizophrenia, by altering brain...
Identification of autophagy-dependent secretion machinery
Credit: Osaka University Autophagy has long been considered as a physiological process solely for degradation, but its secretory role has recently emerged. A group of...
Testing how species respond to climate change
Predicting how species will respond to climate change is a critical part of efforts to prevent widespread climate-driven extinction, or to predict its consequences for...
An ordered route to improved performance
Silicon is the dominant material in the production of solar cells. However, perovskites are catching up: they are cheap, flexible and have a promising light-to-electricity...
Review shows limited progress in digitizing NHS records
Health scientists at the University of York have shown that in the 25 years since the NHS was tasked with digitising patient records there has...
Surf and Earth: How prawn shopping bags could save the planet
Credit: University of Nottingham Bioengineers at The University of Nottingham are trialling how to use shrimp shells to make biodegradable shopping bags as a 'green'...
Neurons modulate the growth of blood vessels
Credit: Bild: le Noble/KIT A team of researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) shake at the foundations of a dogma of cell biology. By...
