DNA find reveals new insights into the history of cattle in Europe
Metacarpus of a small and compact adult bovid found in Twann after sampling for genetic analysis.
Credit: Illustration: University of Basel, Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological...
Isotopes in prehistoric cattle teeth suggest herding strategies used during the Neolithic
Cattle mobility patterns at the Neolithic wetland site of Arbon Bleiche 3. Settlement plan with reconstructed houses and distribution of cattle mobility patterns (MP)...
Biologists delay the aging process by ‘remote control’
Activating a gene called AMPK in the nervous system induces the anti-aging cellular recycling process of autophagy in both the brain and intestine. Activating...
Cancer drug makes fruit flies live longer
100 day old female fruit fly.
Credit: Dr Nazif Alic, UCL
Adult fruit flies given a cancer drug live 12% longer than average, according to a...
Understanding aging: Stem cell dysfunction links cancer and aging
Wholemount immunostaining for a Keratin-15-GFP transgenic reporter (green) on mouse tail epidermis labels a population of stem cells that undergoes age-associated changes. Co-stained with...
Key events early in process of cellular aging defined
Yeast cells, outlined in blue, each contain one vacuole, outlined in red. The acidity of the vacuole is indicated by the green dye: lower...
Research explains action of drug that may slow aging, related disease
This study suggests that a combination of rapamycin and another drug to offset that increase in insulin resistance might provide the benefits of this...
Replication of colored 3-D models simplified
Color details and structures of the replica match precisely the template.
Credit: Christian Schüller / Copyright ETH Zurich
The new method is a clever combination of...
Digital photography: The future of small-scale manufacturing?
Pictures, similar to this, were taken of the object from all angles to encompass the entire object and create an accurate model. Many aspects...
New 3-D technique uses water and robotics to reconstruct complex objects
3-D scanning using a dip scanner: The object is dipped in a bath of water (left) by a robot arm. The quality of the...
Strange electrons break the crystal symmetry of high-temperature superconductors
Brookhaven Lab scientists (from left) Ivan Bozovic, Xi He, Jie Wu, and Anthony Bollinger with the atomic layer-by-layer molecular beam epitaxy system used to...
