Blood vessels can make you fat, and yet fit
Healthy obesity begins where metabolic disorders emerge: Vascular-adipose interaction enables a selective fat storage in a healthier wayCredit: IBS Can ...
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Scientists discover cellular structure of poorly understood visual brain region
Virginia Tech scientists find distinct layers of unique cell typesCredit: Virginia Tech Graduate student Ubadah Sabbagh placed a cold glass ...
In the wild, chimpanzees are more motivated to cooperate than bonobos
When informing about a threat territorial chimpanzees are more motivated to cooperate than less territorial bonobosCredit: Cédric Girard-Buttoz, Taï Chimpanzee ...
Movers and stayers: Surviving a range shift due to climate change
A new study shows a broad diet helps tropical fish survive a range shift due to climate changeCredit: Jack Hannan ...
Economic alien plants more likely to go wild
Credit: Mark van Kleunen Humans have cultivated plants outside their native ranges for thousands of years. But as the world ...
A dirty job: Tracking coronavirus using human waste
University of Missouri scientists assisting Missouri officials with Coronavirus Sewershed Surveillance ProjectCredit: University of Missouri Recent studies in the Netherlands ...
UTEP researchers uncover brain mechanisms in fruit flies that may impact future learning
Credit: Simon Lee EL PASO, Texas - A research team from The University of Texas at El Paso has made ...
Humans navigate with stereo olfaction
Credit: YE Yuting "If in doubt, always follow your nose," said Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings. Despite Gandalf's ...
Four new species of giant single-celled organisms discovered on Pacific seafloor
Credit: Jennifer Durden and Craig Smith, DeepCCZ Project. Two new genera and four new species of giant, single-celled xenophyophores (protozoans ...
KIST develops eco-friendly, flame-retardant carbon plastic ideal for recycling
Non-toxic, flame-retardant composite material based on bio-epoxy made from plant-source tannic acid. 99% eco-friendly recycling within tens of minutes merely ...
Slow-growing rotavirus mutant reveals early steps of viral assembly
Credit: CDC Rotavirus is responsible for more than 130,000 deaths in infants and young children younger than five years, every ...
Airborne mapping sheds light on climate sensitivity of California redwoods
Credit: Global Airborne Observatory, ASU Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science. Throughout California, the effects of climate change are ...
Scientists use protein, RNA to make hollow, spherical sacks called vesicles
Such bubble-like structures -- crafted without traditional lipid building blocks -- could potentially be engineered to deliver drugs, researchers sayCredit: Ibraheem Alshareedah ...
Agricultural conservation schemes not enough to protect Britain’s rarest butterflies
Credit: Katie Threadgill Conservation management around the margins of agriculture fail to protect butterfly species at greatest risk from the ...
Dimethylsulfoniopropionate concentration in coral reef invertebrates
Dimethylsulfoniopropionate concentration in coral reef invertebrates varies according to species assemblagesCredit: Dr Isis Guibert New research highlights the effect of ...
Size matters in the sex life of salmon
Credit: Mikko Ellmen Every summer, tens of thousands of Atlantic salmon migrate from the Barents Sea to the Teno River, ...
A bacterial toxin turning cells into swiss cheese
Researchers from Kanazawa University purified the pore-forming bacterial toxin Monalysin to study how the innate immune system fights off bacterial ...
Scientists create program that finds synteny blocks in different animals
Scientists developed a software tool that makes it possible to quickly and efficiently find similar parts in the genomes of ...
Immune system works differently between and first and later pregnancies
Study provides biological insights into miscarriage and preterm birthCredit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Among the holy quests of serious and ...
Brexit’s and research networks: Lower efficiency, reorganization of research communities
An analysis of 19,200 private companies, research organizations, public entities and higher education institutions involved in Horizon 2020 projects shows ...
