Diesel-fueled freight trucks play an outsized role in producing India’s total greenhouse gas and air pollution emissions.
Intestinal microorganisms influence white blood cell levels in blood
Intestinal bacteria composition is crucial to driving the recovery of neutrophils counts in the blood of mice following treatments such as stem cell transplants or chemotherapy.
Satellites cast critical eye on coastal dead zones
Scientists have found a new and better way to use remote sensing to understand where coastal dead zones are and predict changes.
What shapes the composition of microbes in a warbler’s gut?
Differences among the collection of bacteria and other microorganisms that live within birds' digestive tracts -- their gut microbiomes -- are not primarily driven by diet diversity, contrary to a recently proposed hypothesis. Instead, a team of researchers found that evolution may play a larger role in explaining these differences,...
Study Yields Clues to Why Alzheimer’s Disease Damages Certain Parts of the Brain
Memory loss is often the first sign of Alzheimer’s disease, followed by confusion and difficulty thinking.
Corals Saving Corals
Under the right living arrangement, disease-resistant corals can help “rescue” corals that are more vulnerable to disease, found a study from the University of California, Davis, that monitored a disease outbreak at a coral nursery in Little Cayman, Cayman Islands.
Study shows superbugs in the environment rarely transfer over to humans: Hospitals are more risky than farms
A study has investigated the spread of Klebsiella bacteria between humans and the environment.
Mapping Lyme disease out west
Tick bites can transmit Lyme disease. But even knowing where these ticks live doesn't necessarily mean you can predict the disease in humans. It's only one part of a broader picture which includes human behavior and the habits of the parasite's carriers.
Genetic ‘hitchhikers’ can be directed using CRISPR
Researchers use CRISPR to make large scale genetic changes to bacteria by co-opting a natural process.
Carbonate Swirls Spin from the Bahamas
In November 2022, Tropical Storm Nicole barreled into the Bahamas and then hit central-east Florida as a hurricane.