(Kyoto University) A new approach could illuminate a critical stage in the life cycle of one of the most common malaria parasites. The approach was developed by scientists at Kyoto University’s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) in…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Does DNA in the water tell us how many fish are there?
(National Institute for Environmental Studies) Researchers have developed a new non-invasive method to count individual fish by measuring the concentration of environmental DNA in the water, which could be applied for quantitative monitoring of aquatic…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: More ecosystem engineers create stability, preventing extinctions
(Santa Fe Institute) Biological builders like beavers, elephants, and shipworms re-engineer their environments. How this affects their ecological network is the subject of new research, which finds that increasing the number of “ecosystem engineers” st…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: ‘Fang’tastic: researchers report amphibians with snake-like dental glands
(Utah State University) Utah State University biologist Edmund ‘Butch’ Brodie, Jr. and colleagues from Brazil’s Butantan Institute describe oral glands in a family of terrestrial caecilians, serpent-like amphibians related to frogs and salamanders.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: The protein that stands between us and autoimmunity
(Osaka University) Researchers from Osaka University identified the epigenetic proteins Tet2 and Tet3 as key regulators of B cell function. They showed that these proteins suppress B cell function and conversely, that Tet2/Tet3 knockout mice develop a …
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Stretching your legs may help prevent diseases such as heart diseases and diabetes
(The Physiological Society) New research published today in The Journal of Physiology shows that 12 weeks of easy-to-administer passive stretching helps improve blood flow by making it easier for your arteries to dilate and decreasing their stiffness.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Science, government, and business leaders say achieving SDGs requires digital governance
(Terry Collins Assoc) On the eve of UN talks to assess progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, an international group of distinguished business, government, and science leaders say a climate-safe, sustainable, and equitable world cannot be …
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How that preprint about a ‘more contagious strain’ of coronavirus changed in peer review
(Cell Press) On May 5, 2020, news broke about a reportedly more contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2 based on a preprint posted to bioRxiv. On July 2, the journal Cell published a peer-reviewed version of the paper that offers additional experimental and c…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Oat and rye bran fibres alter gut microbiota, reducing weight gain and hepatic inflammation
(University of Eastern Finland) In a newly published experimental study, the consumption of dietary fibre from oat and rye brans supported the growth of beneficial gut microbiota, which in turn ameliorated cholesterol metabolism, enhanced gut barrier f…
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Moss protein corrects genetic defects of other plants
(University of Bonn) Almost all land plants employ an army of molecular editors who correct errors in their genetic information. Together with colleagues from Hanover, Ulm and Kyoto (Japan), researchers from the University of Bonn have now transferred …
