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The Michigan Bumble Bee Atlas program is asking for the public's help to track bumble bees as part of a statewide community science project.

An increase in nightmares and hallucinations - or 'daymares' - could herald the onset of autoimmune diseases such as lupus, say an international team led by researchers at the University of Cambridge and King's College London.

UCL researchers are to partner with RISE, Research Institutes of Sweden, to explore how the human brain interacts with built environments, and how understanding this can help design sustainable surroundings that enhance people's health and wellbeing.

Timekeeping in the brain is done with neurons that relax at different rates after receiving a signal; now memristors-hardware analogues of neurons-can do that too Study: Efficient data processing using tunable entropy-stabilized oxide memristors (DOI: 10.1038/s41928'024 -01169-1) Artificial neural networks may soon be able to process time-dependent information, such as audio and video data, more efficiently.

ETH Zurich's new BSS teaching and research building on the Schällemätteli life science campus in Basel will officially open its doors today.

University of Michigan freshwater scientists will be among the more than 700 researchers from the Great Lakes region and beyond to present their findings next week at the 67th annual conference of the International Association for Great Lakes Research.

Johns Hopkins to establish new RNA innovation center in collaboration with TriLink BioTechnologies The center, anchored in the Institute for NanoBioTechnology, will speed the cycle of RNA innovation

Embarking on a postdoctoral journey marks a critical juncture for recent PhD graduates. ISTA wants to encourage ambitious researchers to follow their curiosity, even if it means taking risks.

More than 20,000 volunteers have been recruited to a resource aimed at speeding up the development of much-needed dementia drugs. The cohort will enable scientists in universities and industry to involve healthy individuals who may be at increased risk of dementia in clinical trials to test whether new drugs can slow the decline in various brain functions including memory and delay the onset of dementia.

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time precisely characterised the enzyme styrene oxide isomerase, which can be used to produce valuable chemicals and drug precursors in an environmentally friendly manner. The study appears today in the journal Nature Chemistry . Enzymes are powerful biomolecules that can be used to produce many substances at ambient conditions.

SimuStride, a student startup that aims to help amputees transition to a prosthetic limb using augmented reality, won a $30,000 grant as part of the Rothberg Catalyzer Pitch Competition, hosted by the University of Miami College of Engineering.

Rod and reel fishing is much more than a recreational activity: It makes an important contribution to the diet in many regions of the world.

Fueled by a $10-million gift from the Temerty Foundation, a possible new ALS treatment could move to clinical trials within five years In a groundbreaking Canadian discovery powered by philanthropy, a

Amogh Ananda Rao wanted to make a lasting difference through research, but as a physician, he didn't feel he had the skills he needed to properly conduct the research that he felt would help him potentially change the field of medicine.

Though over 8 million babies have been born through in vitro fertilization (IVF), 70 percent of IVF implantations fail. As IVF is becoming a more common route to pregnancy in cases of infertility, there is a need for better understanding of embryonic development at this early stage. Researchers in the laboratory of Caltech's Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz , Bren Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, study the biological processes underlying the earliest days of human development.

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, founded by MIT professors and former postdocs, has turned the promise of RNAi research into a new class of powerful therapies.

A new BBC documentary, The Jennings vs Alzheimer's, explores the discoveries made by researchers at UCL and UCLH that have given hope for Alzheimer's disease over the past four decades, and the very special family that helped make it happen.

Christian Hof is head of the new Chair of Global Change Ecology at the University of Würzburg. His research focuses on how climate change and human activities affect species and biodiversity.

DFG funds new Research Training Group in Biology at the University of Göttingen   A new Research Training Group (RTG) in Biology at the University of Göttingen has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Ashutosh Kumar, a materials science and engineering PhD candidate and MathWorks Fellow, applies his eclectic skills to studying the relationship between bacteria and cancer.

A baby girl born deaf can hear unaided for the first time, after receiving gene therapy when she was eleven months old at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.

A new BBC documentary, The Jennings v Alzheimer's, explores the discoveries made by researchers at UCL and UCLH that have given hope for Alzheimer's disease over the past four decades, and the very special family that helped make it happen.

Information systems specialist Christian Grimme explains the principle of evolutionary algorithms In many ways, nature serves as a model for processes and functions which we use in our everyday lives.

The nucleus of each of your cells contains all the genetic information (the genome) necessary to build every type of cell and protein in your entire body. Like a complex library in a tiny space 50 times smaller than the width of a human hair, genes are organized into precise regions in three dimensions.

A survey of 99 small Swiss streams reveals that the majority of the studied streams have significant deficits in their ecological condition and can only fulfil their function as a habitat for animals to a limited extent. Insect larvae and other small animals that react sensitively to pesticides are missing in over 70% of the streams examined.

In a new study published in "Nature Communications" the Cejka laboratory and collaborators identified the molecular mechanisms by which the HROB protein enhances the DNA unwinding function of the MCM8-9 helicase, crucial for DNA repair and replication processes.

A team of researchers has developed a virtual brain twin for more effective treatment of psychosis patients Mental health is an increasingly important public health issue in the European Union.

Pursuing a viable alternative to invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) has been a continued research focus of Carnegie Mellon University's He Lab. In 2019, the group used a noninvasive BCI to successfully demonstrate, for the first time, that a mind-controlled robotic arm had the ability to continuously track and follow a computer cursor.

Researchers observe a wild orangutan applying a plant with known medicinal properties to a wound, a first for a wild animal Even though there is evidence of certain self-medication behaviors in animals, so far it has never been known that animals treat their wounds with healing plants. Now, biologists from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany and Universitas Nasional, Indonesia have observed this in a male Sumatran orangutan who sustained a facial wound.

Thousands of patients in the UK could benefit from a new screening trial to detect prostate cancer.

In the last few months, the same strain of bird flu virus that has been circulating since 2022 has spread to dairy herds, with confirmed infections in at least nine states.