The “super grain” quinoa has the potential to make a super cookie, according to research by Washington State University. In a study published in the Journal of Food Science, WSU researchers show that two types of quinoa, bred specifically to grow in Washington state, had great functionality as a potential high-fiber, high-protein additive flour for commercial […]

Wildlife researchers have completed a study that may settle the question of why, in October 2009, a group of coyotes launched an unprovoked fatal attack on a young woman who was hiking in a Canadian park. By analyzing coyote diets and their movement in .  The death of 19-year-old folk singer Taylor Mitchell is the […]

WEHI researchers in Melbourne have answered a 100-year-old question in diabetes research: can a molecule different to insulin have the same effect? The findings provide important insights for the future development of an oral insulin pill. The research team has visualised how a non-insulin molecule can mimic the role of insulin, a key hormone needed […]

A new study published in the CABI journal Human-Animal Interactions has cast more light on the species of nonhuman animals that we see as ‘friends,’ ‘food,’ and those ‘worth fighting for.’ The research attempted to assess people’s social perceptions about various nonhuman animals including ‘food animals’ which have often been classified as being less sentient and historically […]

Northwestern University researchers have discovered a previously unknown mechanism that drives aging. In a new study, researchers used artificial intelligence to analyze data from a wide variety of tissues, collected from humans, mice, rats and killifish. They discovered that the length of genes can explain most molecular-level changes that occur during aging. All cells must […]

To perform coordinated movements, we rely on special sensory neurons in our muscles and joints. Without them, the brain wouldn’t know what the rest of our body was doing. A team led by Niccolò Zampieri has studied their molecular markers to better understand how they work and describes the results in Nature Communications. Sight, hearing, smell, […]

The two former heads of the failed US-based blood testing start-up Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh ‘Sunny’ Balwani, have received prison sentences of more than a decade each. The repercussions on the fields of chemistry and medical diagnostics remain to be seen. On 7 December, Balwani – Theranos’ former chief operating officer and Holmes’ ex-boyfriend […]

The biochemical process by which cyanobacteria acquire nutrients from rocks in Chile’s Atacama Desert has inspired engineers at the University of California, Irvine to think of new ways microbes might help humans build colonies on the moon and Mars. Researchers in UCI’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Biology […]

Babies born to Black mothers in richer countries are more likely to be stillborn or die in the first four weeks of life than those born to white women, new research has found. A new meta-analysis published in the Lancet today (Thursday 8 December) funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, the […]

Electric cars – and their continued sales growth – are expected to have a greener, cleaner influence on air pollution and reduce human mortality in most, if not all, U.S. metropolitan areas, according to Cornell University research published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (March 2023). As the microscopic soot discharged from carbon-fueled cars continues to drop […]