HCV and cancer collection in Infectious Agents and Cancer
A new article collection focused on Hepatitis C virus and Cancer, has been launched in Infectious Agents and Cancer.
1 Monthly Archives: May 2016
Restoring a lost microbiome to a model worm
A lost dimension of life is being restored to the laboratory worm Caenorhabditis elegans. With the promise of building yet further on its already resounding success as a model organism, research that reunites it with a microbiota resembling that found in its wild relatives, launches it as a new host-microbiome model.
Do labradors hold the key to successful aging in humans?
Following Vicki Adams and her colleagues’ publication in Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica today, in this blog she explains more about their research findings and how dogs may provide an insight into understanding successful aging in humans.
The prominent role of the cerebellum in the development of culture
Larry Vandervert has recently published an article in Cerebellum & Ataxias investigating 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.
Power to the pee-ple
Can urine be used as a practical source of electricity? Guest blogger Xavier Alexis Walter discusses a recent advance in scaling up experimental microbial fuels cells that promise to do just that.
Chewbaaka migrated from North America
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 in Genome Biology found that the migration from North America was costly for the species, triggering the first major reduction in their gene pool.