HCV and cancer collection inInfectious Agents and Cancer
A new article collection focused onHepatitis C virus and Cancer, has been launched inInfectious Agents and Cancer.
1A new article collection focused onHepatitis C virus and Cancer, has been launched inInfectious Agents and Cancer.
1A lost dimension of life is being restored to the laboratory wormCaenorhabditis elegans. With the promise of building yet further on its already resounding success as a model organism,researchthat reunites it with a microbiota resembling that found in its wild relatives, launches it as a new host-microbiome model.
Following Vicki Adams and her colleagues’publicationinActa Veterinaria Scandinavicatoday, in this blog she explains more about their research findings and how dogs may provide an insight into understanding successful aging in humans.
Larry Vandervert has recentlypublished an articleinCerebellum & Ataxiasinvestigating the role of the cerebellum in the learning, origin and advancement of culture. It’s been traditionally thought that the cerebral cortex was responsible for this instead, and so in this guest blog, Larry talks more about the alternative theory.
Can urine be used as a practical source of electricity? Guest blogger Xavier Alexis Walterdiscusses a recent advancein scaling up experimental microbial fuels cells that promise to do just that.
OK, OK, so we might not be talking about the Chewbaaka in Star Wars. But the Chewbaaka mentioned in this blog is a cheetah. The cheetah species (Acinonyx jubatus) is now at home on the African plains, but it started a migration 100, 000 years ago from North America towards its current habitat. Research published inGenome Biologyfound that the migration from North America was costly for the species, triggering the first major reduction in their gene pool.