Loading...
ScienceDaily: Most Popular News |
| Role of dopamine in songbird's brain plasticity Posted: 02 Jul 2021 12:43 PM PDT Neuroscientists have demonstrated in new research that dopamine plays a key role in how songbirds learn complex new sounds. |
| Pioneering noninvasive technique for neurological conditions Posted: 02 Jul 2021 08:46 AM PDT Researchers are developing a new, noninvasive brain stimulation technique to treat neurological disorders, including pain, traumatic brain injury (TBI), epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and more. |
| Same dance, different species: How natural selection drives common behavior of lizards Posted: 02 Jul 2021 08:45 AM PDT A surprising study on the behavior of unrelated lizards in very different parts of the world has demonstrated how evolution can lead to different species learning the same skills. The study documents how the Anolis lizard species in the Caribbean, and the Draco lizard species in Southeast Asia, have solved the challenge of communicating with one another to defend territories and attract mates. |
| Muskrats are a bellwether for a drying delta Posted: 02 Jul 2021 08:45 AM PDT Downstream of hydroelectric dams and Alberta's oil sands, one of the world's largest freshwater deltas is drying out. New research suggests long-term drying is making it harder for muskrats to recover from massive die-offs. It's a sign of threats to come for many other species. |
| Guadalupe fur seals continue to recover as new colony discovered Posted: 02 Jul 2021 08:45 AM PDT Guadalupe fur seals (Arctocephalus townsendi) have established a large resting colony in the Gulf of California -- bringing the total number of sites where this endangered species now occurs to just four. This new haul-out was discovered on El Farallón de San Ignacio Island, along the mainland coast of Mexico. |
| Uncovering the genetic mechanism behind Rett syndrome Posted: 02 Jul 2021 08:45 AM PDT Researchers found that the main gene that causes Rett syndrome, MeCP2, controls the differentiation pattern of neural stem cells through the microRNA miR-199a. Dysfunction in MeCP2 or miR-199a cause neural stem cells to produce more astrocytes than neurons. Furthermore, the researchers found that miR-199a mediates the production of Smad1, a downstream transcription factor of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling. |
| Observation, simulation, and AI join forces to reveal a clear universe Posted: 02 Jul 2021 08:45 AM PDT Astronomers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) technique to remove noise in astronomical data due to random variations in galaxy shapes. After extensive training and testing on large mock data created by supercomputer simulations, they then applied this new tool to actual data from Japan's Subaru Telescope and found that the mass distribution derived from using this method is consistent with the currently accepted models of the Universe. |
| Novel strategy for natural product biosynthesis Posted: 02 Jul 2021 08:45 AM PDT Researchers discover enzyme prototype for formation of ecologically and pharmaceutically important tropone compounds. |
| How ethane-consuming archaea pick up their favorite dish Posted: 02 Jul 2021 08:45 AM PDT Hot vents in the deep sea are home to microbes that feed on ethane. Now researchers have succeeded in finding an important component in the microbial conversion of the gas. They were able to decode the structure of the enzyme responsible for the ethane fixation. |
| Large-scale drug analysis reveals potential new COVID-19 antivirals Posted: 01 Jul 2021 04:53 PM PDT Researchers have screened thousands of drug and chemical molecules and identified a range of potential antivirals that could be developed into new treatments for COVID-19 or in preparation for future coronavirus outbreaks. |
| You are subscribed to email updates from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | |
Loading...
Loading...
