The Dalhousie-Headquartered Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) has reached a major milestone with the deployment of its first international tracking line.Draped off…
Aging is a complex phenomenon and the mechanisms underlying aging are yet to be explained. What researchers do know is that there is a clear relationship…
Although people 50 or older in the study metabolized alcohol similar to how younger people did, they performed worse on special tests after having moderate…
Making sense of others in a social interaction is not easy—each new person we meet may be a source of ambiguous and complex information. However, when…
Researchers funded by the Canadian Cancer Society have discovered eight similar genes that, when mutated, appear to be responsible for medulloblastoma – the…
The rapid generation of large numbers of these immune cells is critical to the body's antibody defense mechanism. However, when B cells grow unchecked, it can…
Frozen biological material, for example food, can be kept for a long time without perishing. A study by researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden is…
Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio are studying mechanisms that enable the prolonged good health and slowed aging of…
It may be these different smells that contribute to the formation of new species. This is shown in a new study from Lund University in Sweden.It was previously…
At first they can hardly move forward, then they start to crawl and finally – after having stood up straight by themselves for the first time – they are filled…
It is often assumed that remaining flexible by trying different strategies when negotiating a difficult interaction is optimal, but this may not be the case if…
If someone ever calls you a “dirty rat,” consider it a compliment. A new discovery published online in the FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) shows that…
About one in 3,500 people are affected with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a disease of the retina's visual cells that eventually leads to blindness. Now, a…
Three specific biomarkers provide an accurate indication of the severity of Chikungunya fever (CHIKF), which is emerging as a threat in South-East Asia, the…
The International Rice Functional Genomics Consortium recently announced the public availability of more than 200,000 rice mutant lines, which represent…
By this measure, T cells, or white blood cells, from patients with the autoimmune disease rheumatoid arthritis are worn out and prematurely aged, scientists at…
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