Evolutionarily novel genes at work in tumors

A team of scientists from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) studied the evolutionary ages…

Change of shifts at the north pole

After exchanging research teams and crewmembers, the greatest expedition to the Central Arctic of all time…

Climate change could make RSV respiratory infection outbreaks less severe, more common

One of the first studies to examine the effect of climate change on diseases such as…

Function of new microRNAs identified in Salmonella and Shigella infections

Discovering them earned their discoverers a Nobel Prize in the 1990s—microRNAs are small RNA molecules that…

Limiting the loss of nature

With only about half of Earth’s terrestrial surface remaining as natural vegetation, a University of Queensland-led…

Bird migration timing skewed by climate, new research finds

Life cycles for birds, insects and trees are shifting in this current era of a rapidly…

Very Large Telescope images stunning central region of Milky Way, finds ancient star burst

ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has observed the central part of the Milky Way with spectacular…

New way to make biomedical devices from silk yields better products with tunable qualities

Researchers led by engineers at Tufts University have developed a novel, significantly more efficient fabrication method…

Plastic glucose-powered biosensor finds sweet success

An electronic biosensor powered using glucose in bodily fluids has been developed by KAUST researchers. The…

Modified cancer drug effective against multi-resistant bacteria

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are increasingly the source of deadly infections. A team of scientists from the Technical…