Neuroprotective compounds have been developed by scientists that may prevent the development of epilepsy. The…
Month: July 2016
Collective hum: Buzzing midges inspire new swarm theory
A team of researchers based in Israel and the US has found a mathematical resemblance…
Smokers quitting tobacco also drink less alcohol
People who have recently begun an attempt to quit smoking tobacco are more likely to…
An engineered protein can disrupt tumor-promoting ‘messages’ in human cells
A team of researchers have unveiled an engineered protein that they designed to repress a…
New therapeutic targets for small cell lung cancer identified
Researchers have identified a protein termed ASCL1 that is essential to the development of small…
How the immune system might evolve to conquer HIV
Scientists have mathematically modeled the coevolutionary processes that describe how antibodies and viruses interact and…
Historical records miss a fifth of global warming: NASA
A new NASA-led study finds that almost one-fifth of the global warming that has occurred…
Football concussion update: Player-on-player hits cause more serious head impacts
In football, player-vs.-player hits will likely cause more severe head impacts than other impacts, according…
Trees’ surprising role in the boreal water cycle quantified
This is the first study to show that deciduous tree water uptake of snowmelt water…
Biologists home in on paleo gut for clues to our evolutionary history
A new study of the gut microbiomes of humans, chimps, bonobos and gorillas shows that…