A new study has found for the first time that ocean warming is the primary…
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HIV ‘safe houses’ identified inside the body
Researchers have identified cells that provide ‘safe houses’ for the human immunodeficiency virus during antiretroviral…
Tropical cyclones on track to grow more intense as temperatures rise
Powerful tropical cyclones like the super typhoon that lashed Taiwan with 150-mile-per-hour winds last week…
Newborn ducklings can acquire notions of ‘same’ and ‘different’
Scientists have shown that newly hatched ducklings can readily acquire the concepts of ‘same’ and…
Record-breaking volcanic kettle on Iceland explored
The Bárdarbunga eruption on Iceland has broken many records. The event in 2014 was the…
Novel algorithm predicts drug combinations to treat drug resistant fungal infections
Scientists have created an algorithm that can identify drug combinations to treat fungal infections that…
Dengue virus protein alters blood vessel surface, makes it leaky
The major symptom of severe dengue disease is leakage of blood plasma out of small…
GAGA may be the secret of the sexes, at least in insects
Without simple repeating sequences of the DNA ‘letters’ GA on the X chromosome, distinct genders…
Prehistoric genomes from the world’s first farmers in the Zagros mountains reveal different Neolithic ancestry for Europeans and South Asians
Populations in the ancient Fertile Crescent are the ancestors of modern day South Asians but…
Checkpoint in b cell development discovered with possible implications on vaccine potency
Researchers report a new quality-control checkpoint function in developing B cells, cells that produce antibodies…