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Credit: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University The caterpillars of Lymantria dispar or Gypsy Moth are voracious eaters capable of defoliating entire forests. Sometimes they can even make harm for coniferous forests. Gypsy Moths…

SLAS Discovery announces its June cover article, 'A Perspective on Extreme Open Science: Companies Sharing Compounds without Restriction'Credit: David James Group Oak Brook, IL - The June cover of SLAS Discovery features cover…

Stakeholder group will channel collective action for national vector-borne disease strategyCredit: (Tick) Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org; (Mosquito) James Gathany, CDC Public Health Image Library …

Ecologist Prof. Ulrich Brose of Friedrich Schiller University Jena and of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) has developed a new method to predict the vulnerability of ecosystems. Predators play a key…

Google and Northwestern scientists show precision of new deep learning system to predict lung cancer Lung cancer is most common cause of cancer deaths in U.S. Lung cancer is harder to treat when diagnosed at advanced stages Lung…

UK and Australian sperm banks use masculine archetypes to attract donors Sperm banks in the United Kingdom and Australia use images and phrases associated with masculinity to attract donors because laws prohibit them from paying for sperm.…

The new Research Training Group 'Gene Regulation in Evolution: From Molecular to Extended Phenotypes' gives a boost to Mainz University as a major center of research in the life sciences The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved…

Credit: Brian Cohen/Pitt PITTSBURGH, May 20, 2019 - Backed by a five-year, $6.7 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health today announced that it plans to lead a…

Credit: Troye Fox For a drug to intervene in cells or entire organs that are not behaving normally it must first bind to specific protein receptors in the cell membranes. Receptors can change their molecular structure in a multitude of…

A study published in the journal Neural Computation involving Núria Armengol, a biomedical engineer at UPF, further to her bachelor's degree final project which she conducted at Duke University (Durham, USA)Credit: UPF A study published in…