These three countries have some of the highest observed levels of wild meat consumption, which often brings wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians into the marketplace and restaurants. Wild meat…
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Impaired Autophagic-Lysosomal Fusion in Parkinson’s Patient Midbrain Neurons Occurs through Loss of ykt6 and Is Rescued by Farnesyltransferase Inhibition
Abstract Macroautophagy is a catabolic process that coordinates with lysosomes to degrade aggregation-prone proteins and damaged organelles. Loss of macroautophagy preferentially affects neuron viability and is associated with age-related neurodegeneration.…
A new method to model the distribution of extremely rare species
Post provided by Pasquale Raia (he/him), Alessandro Mondanaro (he/him), Mirko Di Febbraro (he/him), Marina Melchionna (she/her) and Silvia Castiglione (she/her) Back in 2001 Sally Duncan, a quite prolific science writer,…
How some beetles ‘drink’ water using their butts
Some beetles “drink” using their butts, and scientists are starting to understand how. Red flour beetles, a major agricultural pest, open their anus to get water vapor in the air…
Capybaras thrive, even near humans, because they’re not picky eaters
Capybaras, the world’s largest rodent, naturally live in vast grasslands, wetlands and rivers throughout South America. Their name literally means grass eater in the Tupi language, which is indigenous to…
Stressed plants make ultrasonic clicking noises
Listen carefully, and a plant may tell you it’s thirsty. Dry tomato and tobacco plants emit distinct ultrasonic clicks, scientists report March 30 in Cell. The noises sound something like…
Judge Deals Another Blow to Tejon Ranchcorp Project
Site of proposed Centennial project wildflowers; Image: Richard Dickey L.A. County Ordered to Set Aside Approvals for Risky Sprawl Development March 28, 2023, LOS ANGELES, CALIF. – A judge has…
A Novel CCK Receptor GPR173 Mediates Potentiation of GABAergic Inhibition
Introduction Cholecystokinin (CCK), the most abundant and widely distributed neuropeptide in the CNS (Crawley and Corwin, 1994), colocalizes with glutamate (Morino et al., 1994), GABA (Somogyi et al., 1984; Markram…
Neural Substrates of Body Ownership and Agency during Voluntary Movement
Abstract Body ownership and the sense of agency are two central aspects of bodily self-consciousness. While multiple neuroimaging studies have investigated the neural correlates of body ownership and agency separately,…
Severely Attenuated Visual Feedback Processing in Children on the Autism Spectrum
Introduction Individuals on the autism spectrum demonstrate atypicality in sensory processing across multiple domains. Given that efficient integration of basic sensory information forms a foundation for more complex cognition and…
