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Washington, June 29 (ANI): In a major achievement, scientists at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR) in San Antonio have constructed a genetic map of the parasite that causes schistosomiasis.

Schistosomiasis is a chronic intestinal infection that can damage internal organs and, in children, [...]

Washington, May 27 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have discovered that shellfish are threatened from rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) that contribute to the acidification of open ocean.

The research was done by Smithsonian scientists, led by Whitman Miller, ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland.

For shellfish and other organisms [...]

Washington, Mar 31 (ANI): Killing mosquitoes in their water-borne larval stage of development can effectively control malaria in urban areas, according to a study.

Governments and NGOs worldwide are making a concerted effort to tackle malaria and a number of interventions exist to control its spread, including the use of [...]

Sydney, March 31 (ANI): A new study has found that stressed mushroom corals can switch from male to female and back again, the first to show that coral can change sex in either direction, all for conserving energy.

According to a report by ABC News, researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel conducted the study. [...]

London, March 27 (ANI): A new research has determined that warm summers are dramatically reducing populations of daddy long legs, which in turn is having a severe impact on the bird populations which rely on them for food.

The new research, by a team of bird experts, including Newcastle University’s Dr Mark Whittingham, spells out for [...]

London, Mar 20 (ANI): Maggot (larval) therapy for leg ulcers has the same health benefits and costs as a standard treatment for the problem, according to two studies.

Published in the online edition of the British Medical Journal, the studies describe leg ulcers as chronic wounds most commonly [...]

Washington, Feb 6 (ANI): A new research paper has offered important insights into how new species come to be.

The paper has been authored by a team led by University of Notre Dame researchers Andrew Forbes, Thomas Powell, and Jeffrey Feder.

“This study is important because it shows how biodiversity itself can be a major generator [...]

London, Feb 06 (ANI): Infant blue butterflies dupe ants into protecting themselves by mimicking the tune of their queen, a new study has found.

Researchers at the University of Oxford have found that the larvae and pupae of Maculinea rebeli – a parasitic butterfly native to western Europe, though threatened with extinction – imitate red ants [...]

Washington, Feb 5 (ANI): Predatory crabs are poised to return to warming Antarctic waters and disrupt the primeval marine communities, a major upheaval that is a result of global warming.

“Nowhere else than in these ecosystems do giant sea spiders and marine pillbugs share the ocean bottom with fish that have antifreeze proteins in their [...]

Washington, January 29 (ANI): A computerized analysis carried out by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) seems to suggest that the spread of malaria can be prevented by changing the environment, using everything from shovels and ploughs to plant-derived pesticides.

The researchers say that this approach may be as important as mosquito nets and [...]

Washington, Jan 27 (ANI): An international team of researchers has engineered the genes of the medfly, which is a serious agricultural pest, to generate offspring that die whilst they are still embryos.
The genes of the medfly, also known as the lethal Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata), were engineered by Ernst A. Wimmer and his team [...]

Canberra, Jan 13 (ANI): Scientists have blamed the presence of millions of two-headed fish larvae, found in the Noosa River in Australia, on chemical contamination from farm runoff.
According to a report in news.com.au, the disfigured larvae are thought to have been affected by one of two popular farm chemicals, either the insecticide endosulphan or the [...]

Washington, Smaller mosquitoes are more likely to be infected with viruses that cause diseases in humans, according to a new study.
For the study, Barry Alto, Ph. D., Director of the Medical Entomology Program at the Illinois Natural History Survey, along with Assistant Professor Michael Reiskind of Oklahoma State University and Professor L. Philip Lounibos of [...]