Male crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus) produce a complex call consisting of two elements, the long chirp (three to eight sound pulses) followed by a series of short chirps (each with two sound pulses) ...

News & Views Published: 21 October 2010 Thyroid gland Variation in 'normal' thyroid function—effect on bone health? Mark S. Cooper Nature Reviews Endocrinology 6, 599–600 (2010) Cite this article ...

We studied 35 individuals with hypertension (14 men) recruited from the hypertension clinic of our hospital. A diagnosis of hypertension was established when systolic arterial pressure was >140 mm Hg ...

Chestnut-sided Warblers (Dendroica pensylvanica) and Blue-winged Warblers (Vermivora pinus) sing different song types in different contexts. Local dialects exist in the "Unaccented Ending" songs ...

OBJECTIVES: Clinical practice guidelines recommend at least annual testing of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and urine albumin-creatinine ratio (uACR) for patients with chronic kidney ...

The National Institutes of Health is providing approximately $185 million over five years to the Impact of Genomic Variation on Function (IGVF) consortium, initiated and funded by NIH's National Human ...

A research group has studied how seasons influence the function of the brain. Researchers showed that the length of daylight affects the opioid receptors, which in turn regulates the mood we ...

The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) has recently signed a year-long collaboration agreement with Illumina, a leading developer and manufacturer of life sciences tools and integrated systems for ...

A type of brain cell that plays a vital role in maintaining neural networks and repairing injuries lies at the core of a promising newly published Nature study on Alzheimer’s disease from the USF ...