BARCELONA, Spain, April 8 -- The Autonomous University of Barcelona issued the following news: * * * CAR therapies for neurodegeneration: a big challenge with increasingly plausible solutions * A UAB research team defines the criteria that CAR immunotherapies for neurodegenerative diseases must meet to advance both conceptually and in trials, which are still at a very preliminary stage, in a review study published in the journal Trends in Pharmacological Sciences. The application of CAR im  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 8 -- The University of Kansas posted the following news: * * * Research traces evolution of anglerfishes' famed fishing-rod lures * LAWRENCE -Anybody who has seen "Finding Nemo" knows about those captivating monsters of the sea: anglerfishes. Variously horrific- or alien-looking, many female anglerfishes sport long, protruding lures used for enticing prey or signaling during mating. What's more, the dizzying variety in lures doesn't just include motion-based ones. S  more

WURZBURG, Germany, April 8 -- The University of Wurzburg issued the following news release: * * * The remarkable resilience of a tropical rainforest * Tropical rainforests are home to almost two-thirds of all vertebrate species and three-quarters of all tree species: they are the most species-rich terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. However, over half of these diverse rainforests have already been cleared, and their area continues to decline drastically, primarily for agricultural purposes. Is  more

WURZBURG, Germany, April 8 -- The University of Wurzburg issued the following news release: * * * New study describes mRNA transport in fungi * Cells are highly complex logistics centres whose survival depends on the error-free distribution of their building material. In order for proteins to be produced exactly where they are needed, the targeted transport of their building instructions - the mRNA molecules (messenger ribonucleic acid) - is required. In the filamentous hyphal cells of the  more

GLOUCESTER POINT, Virginia, April 9 (TNSjou) -- William and Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science issued the following news: * * * Mangrove crab outruns its namesake in climate-driven coastal shift By John Wallace A crab named for mangrove forests is leaving them behind. New research from William & Mary's Batten School & VIMS shows the Atlantic mangrove fiddler crab (Leptuca thayeri) is settling into temperate salt marshes along the southeastern U.S. coast. Published in the Journal of  more