New Study Shows How Bee’s Brain Functions to Guide It Home
Bees use their vision to navigate, but until now little was known about what happens inside their brains — which are smaller than a grain of rice — as they…
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‘Antibiotic Apocalypse’: Doctors Sound Alarm Over Drug Resistance
Scientists attending a recent meeting of the American Society for Microbiology reported they had uncovered a highly disturbing trend. They revealed that bacteria containing a gene known as mcr-1 –…
Two Ancient DNA Studies Provide New Insights into Lives of Neanderthals and Paleolithic Humans
Two separate teams of researchers have used advanced DNA sequencing methods to analyze the 52,000-year-old remains of a Neanderthal woman from Vindija Cave in Croatia, and the 34,000-year-old remains of…
One Gene Mutation May Cause Zika's Devastating Birth Defects
Sixty years ago, a team of scientists went looking for yellow fever in the jungles that line the northwestern edge of Lake Victoria. What they found instead, in the blood of…
2017 | Patrick Allard, et al – Has Toxicity Testing Moved into the 21st Century? A Survey and Analysis of Perceptions in the Field of Toxicology
Patrick Allard, ISG faculty, along with Virginia Zaunbrecher, Elizabeth Beryt, Daniela Parodi, Donatello Telesca, Joseph Doherty, and Timothy Malloy, published the paper titled “Has Toxicity Testing Moved into the 21st Century? A Survey and Analysis…
UCLA Biologists Slow Aging, Extend Lifespan of Fruit Flies
In research that potentially could delay the onset of Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, stroke, cardiovascular disease, and other diseases of aging, biologists have produced a genetic one-two punch that…