Day March 13, 2020

IMAGE: Immediately after a sperm fertilizes an egg, the SPRK1 enzyme leads the first step in untangling a sperm’s genome, kicking out special packing proteins called protamines, which opens up the… view more  Credit: Lan-Tao Gou A sperm enters an egg,…

IMAGE: NASA’s Terra satellite captured the formation of Tropical Storm 22S near northeastern Madagascar on March 13, 2020. view more  Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA’s Terra satellite passed over the Southern Indian Ocean and…

IMAGE: The formation of droplets (green) drives a rapid transformation of skin cells. view more  Credit: Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller University Skin is our body’s most ardent defender against pathogens and other…

IMAGE: University of Montana associate professor Jedediah Brodie recently published a paper detailing a major conservation success in the Malaysian state of Sabah, where Brodie and a team of scientists worked… view more  Credit: Jedediah Brodie MISSOULA – Jedediah Brodie has…

IMAGE: A specimen of toucan species Ramphastos dicolorus view more  Credit: Pedro Jordano Research conducted in recent decades has shown how the destruction of forests brings about a decline in species diversity. A research group in Brazil led by scientists at…

IMAGE: Summary of prognostic factors of metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: The figure shows on the left side the predictive markers discussed in the article and on the right the prognostic ones. view more  Credit: Correspondence to – Fabrizio Citarella – [email protected]…

It is already hard to believe that there is ice on Mercury, where daytime temperatures reach 400 degrees Celsius, or 750 degrees Fahrenheit. Now an upcoming study says that the Vulcan heat on the planet closest to the sun likely…

Individuals with Down syndrome are at a much greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, with inflammation of the brain starting early in life and the risk of Alzheimer’s reaching nearly 80% by the age of 60. The root cause of…

Highlight Study results call into question the utility of testing blood pressure load–the proportion of elevated blood pressure readings detected over 24 hours–for diagnosing hypertension in children. Washington, DC — Results from a new study provide insights on evaluating high…

IMAGE: By tracking the growth of a biofilm with super-resolution imaging, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine found similarities in how it formed that mimicked how urbanization… view more  Credit: Geelsu Hwang/University of Pennsylvania Microbiologists have long…