The University of Bern has issued the following press release:An international team of researchers including scientists from the Institute of Genetics of the University of Bern has unraveled the enigma of inheritance of coat color patterns in dogs.
Peer into any fishbowl, and you’ll see that pet goldfish and guppies have nimble fins.
Centenarians are less susceptible to age-related chronic diseases and more likely to survive infectious diseases.
COVID-19 lockdowns scrambled sleep schedules and stretched waistlines.
Prosthetic enables a wide range of daily activities, such as zipping a suitcase, shaking hands, and petting a cat.
Artificial intelligence (AI) will fundamentally change medicine and healthcare: Diagnostic patient data, e.g.
An interdisciplinary conference in Paris in March discussed how expanding knowledge of the way microbes interact with Earth’s environment is revolutionizing not only science and medicine, but the fields of law, philosophy and the arts.
A collaboration of molecular biologists and bioinformaticians from Germany, Austria, and Japan has discovered a limitation in the method long used to evaluate oocytes (immature egg cells) in medical research.
Selection of new genetic mutations that are beneficial puts some organisms within a population at an advantage compared to others. In some populations, the same beneficial mutation is more likely to take over than in other populations. The population structures that increase the likelihood of the successful takeover are known as "amplifiers of selection," because they enhance the effect of natural selection.
A team of researchers at Cornell University has found that the common antipsychotic drug thioridazine suppresses the tumor activity of many malignant testicular germ cell tumors in laboratory mice.
Modern cetaceans — which include dolphins, whales and porpoises — are well adapted for aquatic life. They have blubber to insulate and fins to propel and steer.
It was wartime and food was scarce.
Anxiety, addiction, and other psychiatric disorders are often characterized by intense states of what scientists call arousal: The heart races, blood pressure readings rise, breaths shorten, and “bad” decisions are made.
Plump and ponderous, tardigrades earned the nickname “water bears” when scientists first observed the 0.02-inch-long animals’ distinctive lumbering gaits in the 18th century.
A new study led by CU Boulder reveals the complex history behind one of the Grand Canyon’s most well-known geologic features: A mysterious and missing gap of time in the canyon’s rock record that covers hundreds of millions of years.The research comes closer to solving a puzzle, called the “Great Unconformity,” that has perplexed geologists since it was first described nearly 150 years ago.Think of the red bluffs and cliffs of the Grand Canyon as Earth’s history textbook, explained Barra Peak, lead author of the new study and a graduate student in geological sciences at CU Boulder.
Key TakeawaysA new economic and health model estimates that cases of cardiovascular disease and diabetes in the US would drop substantially if the food industry reformulates sugary products in 15 food categories.By quantifying the healthcare and societal cost savings of Americans reducing their sugar consumption, the model may spur the launch of a national sugar-reduction policy aimed at food manufacturers.Cutting 20% of sugar from packaged foods and 40% from beverages could prevent 2.48 million cardiovascular disease events (such as strokes, heart attacks, cardiac arrests), 490,000 cardiovascular deaths, and 750,000 diabetes cases in the U.S.
What transpires in comedies and cartoons when a character has a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other is not far off from people’s perceptions of the real world, finds a new study from the University of Waterloo.