Category: 5. Biology

Scientists have completed the most detailed map of the land under the frozen ice sheet of Antarctica. This is the third version of this map, and is known as Bedmap3. It has incorporated data from ships,…

High-grade glioma, a difficult-to-treat and aggressive form of pediatric and adult brain cancer, responded to avapritinib, a drug already approved by the US FDA. The corresponding study was published in Cancer…

Some of Sydney’s koalas are facing an uncompromising dilemma.

The koalas living in one corner of Australia’s largest city are perilously inbred, researchers report February 26 in Conservation Genetics. But the solution —…

Scaly sailors may have made a record-setting oceanic voyage. Tens of millions of years ago, iguanas in North America floated across the Pacific Ocean. Clinging to vegetation washed into the sea, they traveled one-fifth of the way around…

About 34 million years ago, a group of iguanas went on an epic journey. This lofty band of reptiles traveled about 5,000 miles from the western coast of North America all the way to Fiji. Biologists believe that this is the longest known…

Skin wounds and sores, such as diabetic foot sores and pressure wounds,…

Four in ten adults with chronic pain experience clinically significant depression and anxiety, reported a new systematic review and meta-analysis published in JAMA Network Open. 

“Right now, we have…