Scientists Create Stem-Cell-Derived Neurons from Alzheimer’s Disease
For the first time ever, scientists from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have created functional human Alzheimer’s neurons in a dish….
For the first time ever, scientists from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have created functional human Alzheimer’s neurons in a dish….
Jacques Cousteau warned that humans were having a negative impact on coral reefs. Some three decades later, ecologist and biology professor Phil Dustan has witnessed…
Cornell researchers are using exploratory surgeries on mice to further their understanding of spinal cord injuries. By surgically implanting a window with a transparent panel…
MIT researchers are studying how viruses use bacteria to support the replication of their own DNA. Viruses in phosphorus-starved regions of the ocean are able…
Scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute and the California Institute of Technology are studying how transparent roundworms communicate. In a new study, they report that…
Neuroscientists found that mice, like humans, have distinct processing streams in visual cortical areas and plan to use this to explore more deeply the neurological…
Researchers have agreed to pause their work into the H5N1 avian influenza virus for the next 60 days. The research involved creating extra-contagious versions of…
Researchers rediscovered Miller’s grizzled langur in Borneo’s jungles, which was feared extinct, in the rain forest preserve of Wehea, located 90 miles west of the…
The evolutionary transition between single-celled organisms and multicellular life as we know it took several billion years to occur in nature, but under artificial pressure,…
In nature, you’ll find animals that undergo vast transformations, becoming almost unrecognizable in their new forms. Examples like caterpillars becoming butterflies and tadpoles becoming frogs…
A new virus has been found that causes fetal malformations and stillbirths in cattle, sheep, and goats in northern Europe. Scientists don’t have a clue…
A new study conducted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the University of Florida shows that more than 32 million people…
A team of researchers from MIT, Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Agios Pharmaceuticals are using MR spectroscopy to measure whether brain tumors have a…
According to a newly published study, many autistic children harbor Sutterella bacteria in their digestive tract, contrary to non-autistic children. While this research provides a…
It seems that inefficiency isn’t always a bad thing. Recent research shows that dynein, a motor protein, has a “strut” like motion instead of the…
As much as some media outlets would like the appearance of hybrid sharks to foster new, incredible shark attacks, the reality of the situation is…
New research in the fight against breast cancer and prostate cancer could produce positive results. Researchers discovered a way to stop Myc-driven cancer cells by…
You tickle someone and it is like a magic laughter button. What is that all about? When we are tickled it is a thrill and…