Resistance to a key anti-malarial drug cannot be passed on by mosquitoes in a breakthrough…
Month: April 2016
Visualizing, predicting evolution by mapping the elusive ‘fitness landscape’
Suppose you were trying to design a vaccine to combat next season’s influenza virus. Having…
Mice with genetic defect for human stuttering offer new insight into speech disorder
Mice that vocalize in a repetitive, halting pattern similar to human stuttering may provide insight…
Great Barrier Reef risks losing tolerance to bleaching events
New research suggests that Great Barrier Reef (GBR) corals were able to survive past bleaching…
Scientists crack secrets of the monarch butterfly’s internal compass
Researchers have cracked the secret of the internal, genetically encoded compass that millions of monarch…
Memory suppressor gene could hold key to new Alzheimer’s disease treatments
While research has identified hundreds of genes required for normal memory formation, genes that suppress…
Simple, efficient 3-D fabrication technique for bio-inspired hierarchical structures
Scientists have developed a novel method for the rapid and maskless fabrication of bio-inspired hierarchical…
Antihistamines affect exercise recovery, may or may not be a problem
After vigorous exercise, some 3,000 genes go to work to aid recovery by boosting muscles…
Surface mutation lets canine parvovirus jump to other species
A key mutation in the protein shell of canine parvovirus — a single amino acid…
Nanoscrolls created from graphene’s imperfect cousin
Seeking an alternative, a team of researchers is looking to graphene oxide — graphene’s much…