- Scientists generate spermatic cells from endangered species to maintain their genetic diversity.
They have managed to rescue the genotype of young males that were bound to be genetically lost after road kills.
- Katerina Rusevska defiende con éxito su tesis doctoral sobre hongos gasteroides en Macedonia.
Katerina Rusevska realizó en el
Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC los análisis moleculares de varios hongos
para su tesis bajo la dirección de la investigadora científica María Paz
Martín. El Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial (FMAM)
financia un proyecto para evaluar las amenazas naturales que inciden en
la única población del hongo gasteroide Battarrea phalloides que queda en Macedonia.
- Kepler sees world with distant orbit.
Nasa's Kepler Space Telescope has spotted a distant world with the longest year of any planet in the mission's inventory.
- Three person IVF plans 'progress' in UK.
The creation of babies using sperm and eggs from three people has moved a step closer in the UK.
- The latest issue of Science Signaling includes
new research on a stress-inducible protein that inhibits mTORC1
signaling, a channel that can form large or small pores depending on the
stimulus that triggers channel formation, and a proteomic analysis of
TGF-β signaling in keratinocytes. There's also a Perspective on how
channels and pumps cooperate to control calcium homeostasis in neurons.
- Feeding more while protecting the environment.
A new report suggests that focusing on a
relatively short list of regions, crops and actions could provide new
opportunities to improve global food security while simultaneously
decreasing agriculture’s environmental footprint. For example, China,
India and the US harbor most of the global cropland’s excess nutrients,
they say, while India, Pakistan, China and the US use the most water to
irrigate crops in precipitation-limited areas. By optimizing the
tradeoff between fertilizers’ yield-boosting benefits and its negative
impacts on the environment in key areas around the globe, policymakers
have the potential to provide nutrition to approximately 3 billion more
people, they say.
- The wheezing, coughing, and gasping for breath
that come with a sudden asthma attack aren’t just the fault of an
overactive immune system. A particularly sensitive bundle of neurons
stretching from the brain to the lungs might be to blame as well,
researchers have found. Drugs that alter these neurons could provide a
new way to treat some types of asthma.
- Ever wondered why cats rule the web?
From as young as three years old we are
predisposed to appreciate "cuteness" in puppies, kittens and babies,
reports Wired, in an article covering an #openaccess study from Frontiers in #Psychology: http://bit.ly/1rolnJp. By means of eye-tracking, the authors assessed children’s preferential
attention to images varying only for the degree of ‘Kindchenschema’ and
explored participants’ fixation patterns during a cuteness task.
- A cure for the itch?
Treatment with a monoclonal antibody called
omalizumab may reduce the symptoms of chronic hives that do not improve
with conventional therapies, according to the results of a phase III
trial.
- New from MTM: Assessment of toxicity and
biodistribution of recombinant AAV8 vector–mediated immunomodulatory
gene therapy in mice with Pompe disease.
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