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First Total Synthesis of Madangamine D, a Molecule of Biomedical Interest
July 22, 2014 — Madangamines are a group of polycyclic alkaloids from marine sponges which have biomedical interest due to their cytotoxic activity. Chemists have now completed the first total synthesis of ... full story -
Mammoth and Mastodon Behavior Was Less Roam, More Stay at Home
July 21, 2014 — Their scruffy beards weren't ironic, but there are reasons mammoths and mastodons could have been the hipsters of the Ice Age. According to new research, the famously fuzzy relatives of ... full story -
Bioprinting Methods on 2-D Surfaces to Link 3-D Cellular Structures
July 21, 2014 — New research focuses on the development of a novel, matrix-free method for generating 3-D cell spheroids that are combining knowledge from bioprinting methods on 2-D surfaces to link 3-D cellular ... full story -
Real Price of Steak: Comparing Environmental Costs of Livestock-Based Foods
July 21, 2014 — New research reveals the comparative environmental costs of livestock-based foods. While we are told that eating beef is bad for the environment, do we know its real cost? Are the other animal or ... full story -
Climate: Meat Turns Up the Heat as Livestock Emit Greenhouse Gases
July 21, 2014 — Eating meat contributes to climate change, due to greenhouse gasses emitted by livestock. New research finds that livestock emissions are on the rise and that beef cattle are responsible for far more ... full story -
More Than Glitter: How Gold Nanoparticles Easily Penetrate Cells, Making Them Useful for Delivering Drugs
July 21, 2014 — A special class of tiny gold particles can easily slip through cell membranes, making them good candidates to deliver drugs directly to target cells. Scientists can now explain how gold nanoparticles ... full story -
Mammals Metabolize Some Pesticides to Limit Their Biomagnification
July 21, 2014 — The concentrations of many historically used, and now widely banned, pesticides and other toxic chemicals -- called legacy contaminants -- can become magnified in an animal that eats contaminated ... full story -
Insights Into Birds' Migration Routes
July 21, 2014 — By tracking hybrids between songbird species, investigators have found that migration routes are under genetic control and could be preventing interbreeding. The research was conducted using ... full story -
New Research Links Bad Diet to Loss of Smell
July 21, 2014 — Could stuffing yourself full of high-fat foods cause you to lose your sense of smell? A new study by neuroscientists says so, and it has researchers taking a closer look at how our diets could impact ... full story -
Process to Purify Water Using Seed Extracts Now Simplified
July 21, 2014 — Researchers have streamlined and simplified a process that uses extracts from seeds of Moringa oleifa trees to purify water, reducing levels of harmful bacteria by 90 percent to 99 percent. The hardy ... full story -
Genes That Contribute to Radiation Resistance Identified
July 21, 2014 — Forty-six genes in Escherichia coli have been discovered that are necessary for its survival at exceptionally high levels of radiation, researchers report in a new article. "The research has ... full story -
Seals Forage at Offshore Wind Farms
July 21, 2014 — By using sophisticated GPS tracking to monitor seals' every movement, researchers have shown for the first time that some individual seals are repeatedly drawn to offshore wind farms and ... full story -
Science and Art Bring Back to Life 300-Million-Year-Old Specimens of a Primitive Reptile-Like Vertebrate
July 21, 2014 — Paleontologists have recreated the cranial structure of a 308-million-year-old lizard-like vertebrate that could be the earliest example of a reptile and explain the origin of all vertebrates that ... full story -
Refined Biological Evolution Model Proposed
July 21, 2014 — Models for the evolution of life try to clarify the long term dynamics of an evolving system of species. A recent model accounts for species' interactions with various degrees of symmetry, ... full story -
Human Platelets Successfully Generated Using Next-Generation Bioreactor
July 21, 2014 — A scalable, next-generation platelet bioreactor has been created to generate fully functional human platelets in vitro. The work is a major biomedical advancement that will help address blood ... full story -
Technology Tracks the Elusive Nightjar
July 21, 2014 — Bioacoustic recorders could provide us with vital additional information to help us protect rare and endangered birds such as the European nightjar, new research has shown. The study found that newly ... full story -
Fecal Transplants Let Packrats Eat Poison
July 21, 2014 — Woodrats lost their ability to eat toxic creosote bushes after antibiotics killed their gut microbes. Woodrats that never ate the plants were able to do so after receiving fecal transplants with ... full story -
When Temperatures Get Cold, Newly-Discovered Process Helps Fruit Flies Cope
July 21, 2014 — Cold-blooded animals cannot regulate their body temperature, so their cells are stressed when facing temperature extremes. Worse still, even at slightly colder temperatures, some biological processes ... full story -
Healing the Heart With Fat? 18-HEPE Might Help, Study Suggests
July 21, 2014 — Too much dietary fat is bad for the heart, but the right kind of fat keeps the heart healthy, according to a new paper. Scientists in Japan have shown that mice engineered to produce their own EPA ... full story -
Size and Age of Plants Impact Their Productivity More Than Climate
July 20, 2014 — The size and age of plants has more of an impact on their productivity than temperature and precipitation, according to a landmark study. They show that variation in terrestrial ecosystems is ... full story
- Mammoth and mastodon behavior was less roam, more stay at home
- Bioprinting methods on 2-D surfaces to link 3-D cellular structures
- Real price of steak: Comparing environmental costs of livestock-based foods
- Climate: Meat turns up the heat as livestock emit greenhouse gases
- More than glitter: How gold nanoparticles easily penetrate cells, making them useful for delivering drugs
- Mammals metabolize some pesticides to limit their biomagnification
- Insights into birds' migration routes
- New research links bad diet to loss of smell
- Process to purify water using seed extracts now simplified
- Genes that contribute to radiation resistance identified
- Seals forage at offshore wind farms
- Science and art bring back to life 300-million-year-old specimens of a primitive reptile-like vertebrate
- Refined biological evolution model proposed
- Human platelets successfully generated using next-generation bioreactor
- Technology tracks the elusive Nightjar
- Fecal transplants let packrats eat poison
- When temperatures get cold, newly-discovered process helps fruit flies cope
- Healing the heart with fat? 18-HEPE might help, study suggests
- Size and age of plants impact their productivity more than climate
- Marmoset sequence sheds new light on primate biology and evolution
- Scientists map one of most important proteins in life -- and cancer
- Speedy computation enables scientists to reconstruct an animal's development cell by cell
- Microplastics worse for crabs and other marine life than previously thought: Enter through gills
- Essential Oils May Provide Good Source of Food Preservation
- Dog food goes gourmet: Nine emerging trends in pet food
- Eight ways zinc affects the human body
- New cellular garbage control pathway with relevance for human neurodegenerative diseases
- Novel mechanism for invasion of EV71 virus demonstrated
- Four new species of tuco-tucos identified from Bolivia
- Big data used to guide conservation efforts
- Measuring the number of protein molecules inside cells
- Revealed: The mystery behind starling flocks
- Consuming probiotics for a month helps diminish fat accumulation in the liver, according to a new study
- Nature's strongest glue comes unstuck
- Politically driven legislation targeting dangerous dogs has had little impact
- Choosing cheese: Research identifies microbial communities in cheese
- Tiniest catch: Scientists' fishing expedition reveals viral diversity in sea
- Fish oil may benefit alcohol abusers
- Eating lean beef daily can help lower blood pressure, study suggests
- Atlantic salmon show capacity to adapt to warmer waters
- Untangling spider's webs: Largest-ever study of spider genetics shows orb weaver spiders do not share common origins
- In development, it's all about the timing
- How existing cropland could feed billions more
- Exploiting gastric vulnerability: How Helicobacter pylori identifies and colonizes sites of small injury in the stomach
- Chromosome-based draft of the wheat genome completed
- Protein-building enzymes have undergone metamorphosis, evolved diverse new functions
- Next step in creating HIV-1 immunotherapy using fossil virus
- Lipoic acid helps restore, synchronize 'biological clock'
- Study led by indigenous people uncovers grizzly bear 'highway' in coastal British Columbia
- Earth-like soils on Mars? Ancient fossilized soils potentially found deep inside impact crater suggest microbial life
- Scientists track gene activity when honey bees do and don't eat honey: Significant differences depending on diet
- First comprehensive library of master genetic switches in plants
- Faithful cell division requires tightly controlled protein placement at the centromeres
- New method created to draw molecules from live cells
- Potential new therapy with brain-on-a-chip axonal strain injury model
- Bedbugs can be killed with lower dosage of chemical, research finds
- Anti-tank missile detector joins fight against malaria
- Preventing foodborne illness naturally: With cinnamon
- Duck migration study reveals importance of conserving wetlands
- National Xenopus resource at the MBL innovates new way to study proteins
- Eradicating fatal sleeping sickness by killing off the tsetse fly
- Birdsongs automatically decoded by computer scientists
- Children not eating enough fruit and vegetables
- Effects of starvation can be passed to future generations, through small RNAs apparently without DNA involvement
- Measuring nurture: Study shows how 'good mothering' hardwires infant brain
- Niacin too dangerous for routine cholesterol therapy, experts say
- Are ants the answer to carbon dioxide sequestration?
- Cell membrane proteins give up their secrets
- Dredging linked to diseased corals by new study
- Humans walking on all fours is not backward evolution
- Squid skin protein could improve biomedical technologies, study shows
- Indus river dolphin's declining range: Patterns of river fragmentation provide insight into river dolphin conservation
- Whale shark fringe migration: 16-year study suggests Azore islands may play increasing role in whale shark habitat
- Borneo deforested 30 percent over past 40 years
- Tooth plaque provides unique insights into our prehistoric ancestors' diet
- Climate-cooling Arctic lakes soak up greenhouse gases, study shows
- Brain of world's first known predators discovered
- Scientists find way to trap, kill malaria parasite
- One injection stops diabetes in its tracks: Treatment reverses symptoms of type 2 diabetes in mice without side effects
- Mediterranean diet has varied effects on cognitive decline among different races, study shows
- Cases of drug-resistant superbug significantly rise in southeastern U.S.
- Worm study provides hope for deadly disease of the brain
- Organismal biologists needed to interpret new trees of life
- A natural way to monitor, and possibly control populations of, stink bugs
- Improving tumor radiation therapy: When basic ions break DNA down
- Decoding dengue: New pathway taken by virus discovered
- Hungry, invasive 'crazy worm' makes first appearance in Wisconsin, threatens forests
- Eroded swimmeret syndrome, a novel disease of the signal crayfish
- Animal foraging tactics unchanged for 50 million years
- For bees and flowers, tongue size matters
- Mutation stops worms from getting drunk
- Dodos and spotted green pigeons are descendants of an island hopping bird
- Glowing red in the big blue: Red fluorescence at great depths
- Why HIV causes life-long infection
- Gene discovery could lead to better soybean varieties for northern United States
- Likely origin of lung fungus invading Pacific Northwest found by study
- New assay to spot fake malaria drugs could save thousands of lives
- Fish oil supplements reduce incidence of cognitive decline, may improve memory function
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