Science
Feb. 21, 2019 (Case Western University) -- Bacteria in the gut do far more than help digest food in the stomachs of their hosts, they can also tell the genes in their mammalian hosts what to do. A st ...
Feb. 20, 2019 (EcoSophia) -- There are many ways we can talk about the deeper roots of the crisis of our time, setting out from many different vantage points; as Charles Fort pointed out, one measure ...
1These images highlight the stark contrast between mouse models of untreated Duchenne muscular dystrophy (left) and those treated with a CRISPR-based genetic therapy after one year (right). On the ri ...
Source: Geospatial World A step forward in AI text-generation that also spells trouble Feb. 14, 2019 (The Verge) -- OpenAI’s researchers knew they were on to something when their language modeling pr ...
Credit: CC0 Public DomainFeb. 9, 2019 (MeidcalXpress) -- Athletes know a vigorous workout can release a flood of endorphins: "feel-good" hormones that boost mood. Now there's evidence that exercise p ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Feb. 7, 2019 (Phys.org) -- Religion can be a mixed blessing for children as they get older, research shows. Third-graders' psychological adjustment and social competence wer ...
A simple treatment using four small molecules converts human astrocytes - a common type of cells in the nervous system - into new neurons, which develop complex structures after four months, as pictu ...
A cryo-EM map of the receptor decorated capsid in which a single protomer was replaced with the atomic model. Seneca Valley Virus capsid proteins are shown in blue, green, and red, and the ANTXR1 rec ...
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 28, 2018 This writer recently had a DNA ancestry done. In addition to my ancestry being overwhelmingly Italian, I found out two interes ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Oct. 25, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- Scientists at The University of Manchester have shown for the first time how antibiotics can predispose the gut to avoidable infections that ...
Deep-sea coral – data was generated on deep-sea corals from 1000m below the sea surface in the Antarctic Ocean. Credit: University of Bristol Oct. 25, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A team of scientists, led by ...