Cardiac macrophages found to contribute to a currently untreatable type of heart failure

Investigators have discovered, for the first time, that the immune cells called macrophages contribute to a…

Tissue paper sensors show promise for health care, entertainment, robotics

Engineers have turned tissue paper -- similar to toilet tissue -- into a new kind of…

Cell biology: Scientists fill in a piece of the copper transport puzzle

Researchers have identified the protein that carries copper into mitochondria, where copper is required for the…

Living human tracheas

Biomedical engineers are growing tracheas by coaxing cells to form three distinct tissue types after assembling…

Cutting off cervical cancer’s fuel supply stymies tumors

Researchers have shown that cervical tumors that don't respond to radiation may be vulnerable to therapies…

Risk of extreme weather events higher if Paris Agreement goals aren’t met

The Paris Agreement has aspirational goals of limiting temperature rise that won't be met by current…

Personality: Where does it come from and how does it work?

How do our personalities develop? What do we come with and what is built from our…

The ‘Super-Ranger’ badgers that may hold the key to limiting the spread of bovine TB

Researchers have discovered a new ranging behavior in male badgers, which will aid the implementation of…

Majority of Anna’s hummingbirds may have feather mites on their tail feathers

The majority of Californian Anna's Hummingbirds appear to have P. huitzilopochtlii feather mites on their tail…

Analysis of major earthquakes supports stress reduction assumptions

A comprehensive analysis of 101 major earthquakes around the Pacific ring of fire between 1990 and…