The pathway to an allergy
Researchers are finally getting somewhere when it comes to understanding how allergic reactions inflame our lungs and irritate our eyes, thanks to a new study, and their results may help inform new...
View ArticleAn enzyme to ease biofuel production
Biofuels made from wood chips, starch grass and other non-food products could soon be easier to produce thanks to a discovery from researchers investigating the lignin pathway. Lignin, found in the...
View ArticleIce sheet middles versus margins
Sun on the Greenland Ice Sheet melts the ice, forming water, but -- as a new study shows -- what happens next isn’t the same sheet-wide, and this finding may help researchers better understand ice...
View ArticleFossil evokes an old mammal with new tricks
The 160 million-year-old fossil of a rodent-like creature from China is shedding some new light on the evolution of multituberculates—the most successful and long-lived mammalian lineage in the fossil...
View ArticleVisuals may trump sound when judging music performance
Both musical novices and professional musicians rely primarily on visual information when making judgments about music performance, despite the consensus that sound is the most important criteria for...
View ArticleFungal-bacterial consortia for sustainable biofuels and chemicals
Researchers have developed stable consortia, or mixed cultures, of fungi and bacteria that can be used to synthesize useful products such as the biofuel isobutanol from abundant and renewable...
View ArticleRhesus macaque offers insight into human schizophrenia
The rhesus macaque brain can reveal important clues about the roots of schizophrenia and other human neuropsychiatric disorders, according to a study. Amid growing evidence that impaired sensory...
View ArticleSpontaneous prion formation in a mouse model of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
By changing a single amino acid, researchers triggered the spontaneous formation of an infectious prion and reproduced the hallmark symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in an experimental mouse...
View ArticleSocial norms begin to shape cooperation during middle childhood
An individual’s tendency to cooperate can be shaped by local norms, according to a study that found that societal influences begin to take hold during middle childhood. Bailey R. House and colleagues...
View ArticleImplementation of multifaceted hypertension quality improvement program...
Implementation of a large-scale hypertension program that included evidence-based guidelines and development and sharing of performance metrics was associated with a near-doubling of hypertension...
View ArticleLateral wedge insoles not associated with improvement of knee pain in...
Although a pooling of data from 12 studies showed a statistically significant association between use of lateral wedge insoles and lower pain in medial knee osteoarthritis, among trials comparing wedge...
View ArticleUnscrambling the genetics of the chicken’s ‘blue’ egg
Researchers at The University of Nottingham have unscrambled the genetic mutation that causes the blue eggs laid by some breeds of chickens.
View ArticleIn moms, benefits of weight loss surgery don’t translate to offspring
Mothers affected by obesity and diabetes while pregnant put their children at risk of having these diseases and other metabolic problems. But does weight loss in mothers mean improved health for...
View ArticleGladstone scientists transform non-beating human cells into heart-muscle cells
In the aftermath of a heart attack, cells within the region most affected shut down. They stop beating. And they become entombed in scar tissue. But now, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have...
View ArticleNew risk model highlights arsenic risk in China’s groundwater
A new model to predict the risk of contaminants in groundwater will save those who use it significant time and money, highlighting drinking water quality issues in the process. This modelis currently...
View ArticleOngoing in China -- Testing water without touching wells
Researchers have built a model to predict the risk of arsenic contamination in groundwater, a tool that not only highlights water quality issues, but one that, by its design, saves its users time and...
View ArticleHills spill the secrets of plate tectonics
What can the subtle features of hills tell researchers about the complicated tectonic processes at work beneath our feet? A new study by Martin Hurst and colleagues reveals a link between a hill’s...
View ArticleFor flight, bees rely on a familiar mechanism
The muscles that insects use for flight are necessarily specialized for extremely short, high-speed beats. Now, however, ultra-fast cameras and X-ray imaging suggests that bumblebees (and likely other...
View ArticleEven more precision for the world’s most accurate clock
No clock in the world measures time more accurately than an atomic clock, and now, according to a new study, atomic clock technology just got even more precise. Atomic clocks keep time not by using...
View ArticleBT-R3 mediates killing of the malaria vector anopheles gambiae by bacillus...
The cadherin receptor, BT-R3, of Anopheles gambiae reported in this study mediates the killing action of the Cry4B mosquitocidal toxin, which was published in the 2013 April issue of Experimental...
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