PCB pollution threatens to wipe out killer whales
More than 40 years after the first initiatives were taken to ban the use of PCBs, the chemical pollutants remain a deadly threat to...
Method to determine oxidative age could show how aging affects nanomaterial’s properties
New work looks to understand how iron oxide nanoparticles age, and how aging may change their functional or safety profiles. By combining lab-based Mössbauer...
New bird flu viruses in ducks after vaccines largely prevented H7N9 in chickens
In response to bird flu pandemics starting in 2013, officials in China introduced a new vaccine for chickens in September 2017. Recent findings suggest...
‘Cellular memory’ of DNA damage in oocyte quality control
Females are born with a finite number of eggs that come from a much larger pool of millions of precursor cells. New research shows...
Well established theories on patterns in evolution might be wrong
How do the large-scale patterns we observe in evolution arise? A new article argues that many of them are a type of statistical artifact...
Following the path of chemicals through the soil
A new and quick way to predict the transport of chemicals through the soil has been developed.
Ancient past of a body plan code probed
Researchers have opened a window on another piece of evolutionary biology. They have found that Hox genes, which are key regulators of the way...
New gene variants associated with chronic back pain
Chronic back pain is the number one cause of years lived with disability worldwide. Medical researchers have now identified three novel genetic variants associated...
Deaths of despair: The opioid epidemic is just part of the problem
Opioid-related deaths contributed to more than 60,000 U.S. lives lost in 2016 but absolute declines in life expectancy relative to other countries and in...
How Natural Killer cells regulate protective HIV antibodies
In the quest to develop a vaccine that triggers the immune system to prevent HIV infection, researchers have focused on identifying and eliciting a...
