Emotions tend to run high in hospitals, and patients or patients’ loved ones can be…
Month: January 2017
Baboons produce vocalizations comparable to vowels
Baboons produce vocalizations comparable to vowels. This has been demonstrated using acoustic analyses of vocalizations…
Fish lightly to keep snapper on the reef
Scientists have looked at 253 coral reef sites across the Indian Ocean. They found that…
Microbes rule in ‘knee-high tropical rainforests’
Rainforests on infertile wet soils support more than half of all plant species. Shrublands on…
Master regulator of cellular aging discovered
Scientists have discovered a protein that fine-tunes the cellular clock involved in aging.
Decreasing cocaine use leads to regression of coronary artery disease
People who use cocaine regularly are at high risk of coronary artery disease. A study…
‘Mysterious’ non-protein-coding RNAs play important roles in gene expression
Enhancers boost the rate of gene expression from nearby protein-coding genes so a cell can…
Study outlines framework for identifying disease risk in genome sequence
Imagine a day when you visit the doctor’s office for your annual physical. Your physician…
Crybaby: The vitamins in your tears
Would you rather shed a couple tears or have your blood drawn? Testing for nutritional…
Classic video game system used to improve understanding of the brain
The complexity of neural networks makes them difficult to analyze, but humanmade computing systems should…