Researchers find that probiotic bacteria reduces the impact of white-nose syndrome in bats
Credit: Virginia Tech It is widely accepted that probiotic bacteria are beneficial to human health, but what if they could ...
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Reining in the ecological effects of free-roaming horses
Free-roaming horses are an icon of the American West, frequently appearing in art and media as exemplars of the spirited ...
New Australian-Pacific scabies treatment has lasting results, study finds
Update of the world's first comparative trial of mass drug administration against scabiesCredit: MCRI Results of a two-year update of ...
Unexpected mechanism allows CaMKII to decode calcium signaling in the brain
Researchers at Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) have revealed new insights into CaMKII's activity at the single synapse ...
Fruit bats can transform echoes into images
Bats see and use their eyes as much as they hear and use echolocation, Tel Aviv University researchers say Bats ...
Robot arm tastes with engineered bacteria
Credit: Tess Hellebrekers, Soft Machines Lab, Carnegie Mellon University A robotic gripping arm that uses engineered bacteria to "taste" for ...
Confining cell-killing treatments to tumors
Attaching a Velcro-like molecule may prevent immune proteins called cytokines from leaking out of cancerous tissue after injection Cytokines, small ...
Scientists developing way to help premature babies breathe easier
Study points to possible cell therapy for bronchopulmonary dysplasiaCredit: Cincinnati Children's Hospital CINCINNATI--Researchers suggest a possible cell-based therapy to stimulate ...
EU-LIFE calls for impactful collaborative research in European biomedicine
Six recommendations for the strategic programming of Horizon Europe's Health Cluster EU-LIFE institutes have observed that there were limited opportunities ...
A better way to encapsulate islet cells for diabetes treatment
Crystallized drug prevents immune system rejection of transplanted pancreatic islet cellsCredit: Shady Farah CAMBRIDGE, MA -- When medical devices are ...
Towards a worldwide inventory of all plants
Researchers from Göttingen publish global database of regional plant lifeCredit: Ptarick Wiegelt Declining biodiversity due to man-made habitat destruction and ...
The two faces of the Jekyll gene
Dual allelic state of Jekyll discoveredCredit: Stefan Ortleb & Twan Rutten The corresponding genes are lineage-specific for the grass tribes ...
Learning from experience is all in the timing
Credit: Laboratory of Neurophysiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University As animals explore their environment, they learn to master it. ...
Academic reviewers to now more easily receive credit for their work
San Francisco, CA., June 26, 2019---PLOS today announced that its collaboration with ORCID now includes credit for reviewers. For more ...
Former war refugee maps habitat for West African bird
Credit: Benedictus Freeman LAWRENCE -- Growing up in Liberia during that country's brutal 14-year civil war, Benedictus Freeman and his ...
Uridine diphosphate glucose found to dampen lung cancer metastasis
Credit: Image by the research groups In a study published online in Nature on June 26, research teams led by ...
What made humans ‘the fat primate’?
Changes in DNA packaging curbed our body's ability to turn 'bad' fat into 'good' fat DURHAM, N.C. -- Blame junk ...
Science snapshots: A toxin antidote in frogs, atomic motion in 4D, and better biofuels
Credit: Alexander Tokarev/UCLA A Frog Worth Kissing: Natural Defense Against Red Tide Toxin Found in Bullfrogs By ALIYAH KOVNER A ...
Boosting amino acid derivative may be a treatment for schizophrenia
Many psychiatric drugs act on the receptors or transporters of certain neurotransmitters in the brain. However, there is a great ...
New contents: Neuronal Parkinson inclusions are different than expected
Credit: University of Basel, Biozentrum An international team of researchers involving members of the University of Basel's Biozentrum challenges the ...
