With male infertility a mounting global concern impacting approximately 12% of men, according to the National Institutes of Health, a Penn State research team has discovered a gene that plays a key role in initiating and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 25, 2023
0
43
For the sake of shielding vulnerable and endangered wildlife from the existential risks posed by people, some governments and agencies have established so-called protected areas that are designed to be free of human encroachment ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 16, 2023
0
34
Chilly temperatures are rekindling a manatee die-off in Central Florida's Indian River.
Plants & Animals
Jan 24, 2022
0
48
Research from the University of Adelaide has found that some species of fish will have higher reproductive capacity because of larger sex organs, under the more acidic oceans of the future.
Ecology
Dec 30, 2020
9
375
Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have successfully produced a bull calf, named Cosmo, who was genome-edited as an embryo so that he'll produce more male offspring. The research was presented in a poster ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 23, 2020
0
67
In "Intra- and Interspecific Variation in Production of Bile Acids that Act As Sex Pheromones in Lampreys," published in Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, Tyler J. Buchinger and others find that sexual selection may ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 3, 2019
0
11
London's house sparrows (Passer domesticus) have plummeted by 71% since 1995, with new research suggesting avian malaria could be to blame.
Ecology
Jul 17, 2019
0
356
New research led by The University of Western Australia has shown that the social conditions that a male experiences while growing up can influence the amount of X and Y chromosome sperm that he produces as an adult.
Evolution
Jul 1, 2019
0
1
Biodiversity hotspot Madagascar is one of the world's biggest islands, and home to some of its biggest insects. Now German scientists have discovered two new species of giant stick insect, living only in the dry forests of ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 2, 2019
0
758
Genes in an area of the brain that is relatively similar in fish, humans and all vertebrates appear to regulate how organisms coordinate and shift their behaviors, according to a new Cornell University study.
Plants & Animals
Feb 5, 2018
0
154
