New research offers clues into how the brain shapes perception to control behavior
Credit: Laboratory of Integrative Brain Function at The Rockefeller University What you see is not always what you get. And that, researchers at The Rockefeller...
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Tailored organoid may help unravel immune response mystery
What if you could design an adaptable, biomaterials-based model of an organ to track its immune response to any number of maladies, including cancer, transplant...
New guidelines for diagnosis and management of thyroid disease during pregnancy published in Thyroid
Thyroid (), the official journal of the American Thyroid Association (http://www.thyroid.org/), is an authoritative peer-reviewed journal published monthly online with open access options and in...
UCI scientists identify a new approach to recycle greenhouse gas
Credit: UCI Led by Yilin Hu, UCI assistant professor of molecular biology & biochemistry at the Ayala School of Biological Sciences, the researchers found that...
Zooplankton rapidly evolve tolerance to road salt
Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute A common species of zooplankton--the smallest animals in the freshwater food web--can evolve genetic tolerance to moderate levels of road salt...
Hubble provides interstellar road map for Voyagers’ galactic trek
Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI) NASA's two Voyager spacecraft are hurtling through unexplored territory on their road trip beyond our solar system....
Physicians can better predict outcomes for kidney transplant patients with key data, study finds
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Kidney transplant patients have a better chance of survival if physicians use all the data that's available to them -- including...
Top 10 PPPL stories that you shouldn’t miss
Credit: Elle Starkman/Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory The past year saw many firsts in experimental and theoretical research at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma...
Researchers find key genetic driver for rare type of triple-negative breast cancer
Credit: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- For more than a decade, Celina Kleer, M.D., has been studying how a poorly understood...
Historical documents reveal evidence of Japanese winemaking 400-year ago
Credit: Professor Tsuguharu Inaba The history of wine in Japan is short, with full scale brewing beginning only 150 years ago. However, historical documents recently...
Off-grid power in remote areas will require special business model to succeed
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Low-cost, off-grid solar energy could provide significant economic benefit to people living in some remote areas, but a new study suggests they...
Accelerated discovery a triple threat to triple negative breast cancer
Credit: Houston Methodist Hospital Study Highlights Discovered a gene mutation driving formation of most aggressive triple negative breast cancer. Identified two proteins predicting overall pati..
Great Barrier Reef almost drowned; climate implications
Credit: University of Sydney An analysis of the Great Barrier Reef during a time prior to it becoming the modern shallow reef has found the...
New plant named to honor the peace-making efforts of the Colombian President
(Pensoft Publishers) Named to honor the peace-making efforts of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, a new species of the sunflower family genus Espeletia is described...
The BGRF joins Diversity.AI to prevent age discrimination in aging biomarker development
Credit: Diversity.AI (http://diversity.ai/) Earlier this year scientists at the Biogerontology Research Foundation contributed to the development of Aging.AI, which utilized an ensemble of deep neu..
