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Biology
Complete skin regeneration system of fish unraveled
Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology
Fish and amphibians such as newts are capable of advanced tissue regeneration and can regenerate tissue without scar tissue to their perfect original shape, sho..
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Could eating moss be good for your gut?
Credit: University of Rhode Island
An international team of scientists including the University of Adelaide has discovered a new complex carbohydrate in moss that could possibly be exploited for hea..
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Myonexus Therapeutics receives FDA orphan drug designation for LGMD type 2E treatment
Credit: None
(COLUMBUS, OH-- April 23, 2018 10:00 am EDT) Myonexus Therapeutics, a clinical-stage gene therapy company developing first ever corrective gene therapies for limb girdle muscular dystrop..
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Eating more fish could prevent Parkinson’s disease
Credit: Johan Bodell/Chalmers University of Technology
A new study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, shines more light on the link between consumption of fish and better long-term neur..
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Trees with grassy areas soften summer heat
Credit: (Picture: F. Rahman/ TUM)
Trees cool their environment and "heat islands" like Munich benefit from it. However, the degree of cooling depends greatly on the tree species and the local condit..
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Audit finds biodiversity data aggregators ‘lose and confuse’ data
Credit: Dr. Robert Mesibov
In an effort to improve the quality of biodiversity records, the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) use automated data..
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Fight, flight, or freeze
Credit: Andrew Moberly, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA - "Take a deep breath" is the mantra of every anxiety-reducing advice list ever written. And for good reas..
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Rochester scientists discover gene controlling genetic recombination rates
Credit: University of Rochester illustration / Michael Osadciw
Genetics is a crapshoot. During sexual reproduction, genes from both the mother and the father mix and mingle to produce a genetic com..
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European fish and canoes bump into barriers almost every kilometer
Credit: AMBER
A new study, led by Swansea University, reveals that the density of barriers in European rivers is much higher than indicated by available databases - up to one barrier in every kilomet..
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Trees are not as sound asleep as you may think
Credit: András Zlinszky
High-precision three-dimensional surveying of 21 different species of trees has revealed a yet unknown cycle of subtle canopy movement during the night. The 'sleep cycle..
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A complete cell atlas and lineage tree of the immortal flatworm
Credit: Credit: Salah Ayoub, BIMSB/MDC and Jordi Solana, BIMSB/MDC, now at Oxford Brookes University
From one stem cell to many differentiated body cells: Scientists from the MDC in Berlin, along wi..
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Unprecedented wave of large-mammal extinctions linked to ancient humans
Credit: Craig Chandler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and other recent human relatives may have begun hunting large mammal species down to size - by way of extinction - ..
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Gene variant increases empathy-driven fear in mice
Credit: IBS
Researchers at the Center for Cognition and Sociality, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), have just published in Neuron about a genetic variant that controls and increases emp..
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Small changes in rainforests cause big damage to fish ecosystems
Credit: Clare Wilkinson
Freshwater fish diversity is harmed as much by selective logging in rainforests as they are by complete deforestation, according to a new study.
Researchers had expected th..
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How does the brain learn categorization for sounds? The same way it does for images
Credit: Xiong Jiang, Georgetown University
Categorization, or the recognition that individual objects share similarities and can be grouped together, is fundamental to how we make sense of the world..
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Researchers use CRISPR to edit DNA outside of the cell for the first time
Credit: Gene Editing Institute
Wilmington, DE, April 19, 2018 - Scientists at Christiana Care Health System's Gene Editing Institute have developed a potentially breakthrough CRISPR gene-editing..
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DOR protein deficiency favors the development of obesity
Credit: (M. Romero, IRB Barcelona)
Obesity is a world health problem since excessive accumulation of fat tissue (or adipose tissue) increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabet..
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Researchers study how well greater sage grouse habitat protects other species
Credit: Dave Showalter
Researchers in the University of Wyoming's Department of Zoology and Physiology and Program in Ecology discovered that size does matter -- as it pertains to the effective..
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Standard Bariatrics closes Series A round of financing
Credit: Bruce Crippen for Standard Bariatrics
(Cincinnati, OH-- April 18, 2018) Standard Bariatrics, Inc., an innovator of bariatric surgical devices, has raised a Series A round of financing. River..
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NYITCOM at A-State professor lends anatomy expertise to solve ancient mystery
Credit: University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales
Scientists have long wondered why the physical traits of Neanderthals, the ancestors of modern humans, differ greatly from today's m..
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