Turkey skin, it turns out, can shift from red to blue to white, thanks to bundles of collagen that are interspersed with a dense array of blood vessels. It is…
The transition from water to land is one of the most fascinating enigmas of evolution. In particular, the evolution of limbs from ancestral fish fins remains a…
In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a team of Chinese and American researchers has now introduced a new approach to gene therapy that could counter this problem:…
Park, working with collaborators at Harvard University, the University of Southern California, MIT and BioSensics, developed an active orthotic device using…
The routine screening of bees for frequent and rare viruses “resulted in the serendipitous detection of Tobacco Ringspot Virus, or TRSV, and prompted an…
Two of the most urgent challenges for scientists are the battles against food shortages and infectious diseases like malaria. Unfortunately, both the…
In the current issue of the Journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME Journal, 20.1.2014) scientists from the University of Oldenburg…
A research team from Bern, Switzerland has found that male European honey bees, or drones, are much more susceptible than female European honey bees, known as…
The findings illuminate the specialized roles played by key members of the vast microbial community living in the human gut, and could inform the development…
The parasitic worm lives in the soil and enters the body through the feet. By feeding on victims' blood, the worms cause anemia and, in children, stunted…
An international team of researchers has made important progress in understanding the distribution of the deadly amphibian chytrid pathogen.In some regions,…
“PINK1 and parkin, are implicated in selectively targeting dysfunctional components of mitochondria to the lysosome under conditions of excessive oxidative…
“It has been noted that cancer resembles a state of chronic wound healing, in which the wound-healing program is erroneously activated and perpetuated,” says…
For b-roll of this discovery, please contact Dena Headlee at (703) 292-7739 or dheadlee@nsf.gov. National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded researchers from the…
The findings, published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, “present a breakthrough in understanding the secret life of prion molecules in the brain and…
The alcoholic content of wine has crept gradually northward in the last 10-15 years, from 12-12.5 percent to beyond 15 percent. What might sound trivial to…
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