AHA/ASA Journals

PRMT3-Mediated Arginine Methylation Stabilizes PCSK9 to Promote Aortic Valve Calcification

BACKGROUND: Aortic valve calcification increases leaflet stiffness and contributes to the development of calcific aortic valve disease. The molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying calcification ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists Once Thought This Snail Was Extinct. But a Surprising Discovery and Decade-Long Conservation Effort Revived the Species

In the early 1990s, scientists worried that the greater Bermuda land snail—found only on the North Atlantic Ocean archipelago—had gone extinct. While later searches turned up some snails that had ...
Sports Illustrated

Thornridge at Thornton Fractional North — Girls basketball — Feb. 17, 6 p.m. CT

Home: Thornton Fractional North Meteors — https://scorebooklive.com/illinois/girls-basketball/teams/169913-thornton-fractional-north-meteors Away: Thornridge ...
The Royal Gazette

Success for snail species saved from near-extinction

A conservation journal is to release a study on an endemic Bermuda snail once thought to be extinct. A small colony of greater Bermuda land snail, Poecilozonites bermudensis, was discovered in an ...
Phys.org

Predator stress makes road salt far deadlier for freshwater snails, study finds

Freshwater streams, ponds and lakes across the United States are becoming saltier, and new research from the University of Missouri shows the damage may be greater than scientists once thought.
People

Rare Snail Once Declared Extinct Is Saved from Obliteration After Landmark Conservation Effort

"It's every conservationist's dream to help save a whole species – and that's exactly what we've done," said Tamas Papp of the Chester Zoo Chester Zoo A rare greater Bermuda snail, once believed to be ...
Hawaii News Now

Island snail populations race toward extinction

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Island land snails are facing a serious threat of extinction, according to a new study from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Researchers found extinction rates for island ...
NBC Los Angeles

The ‘SNERCH' for snails begins, and SoCal's nature lovers can participate

The start of the second month hasn't been particularly soggy, and calling February's first days "splashy," or even a tad damp, would not be accurate. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever ...
Forbes

Meet The Snail That Thrives Where Almost Nothing Else Can. Hint: It Has Armor Made Of Iron

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. In hydrothermal vent fields, a small snail evolved an iron-reinforced shell. Here’s how it ...
Phys.org

The devastation of island land snails: Pacific leads global wave of extinctions, researchers find

A comprehensive new review paper reveals the staggering loss of biodiversity among island land snails globally. Lead author Robert Cowie of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's School of Ocean and ...
Rolling Stone

Snail Mail Returns for First New Album in Five Years, ‘Ricochet’

It’s been five long years since Snail Mail released an album. But the wait is over: Lindsey Jordan is back with Ricochet, out March 27 via Matador. To preview the record, Jordan dropped the lead ...
Pitchfork

Snail Mail Announces New Album Ricochet

Snail Mail has announced her first album in five years. Ricochet is out March 27 via Matador. Lindsey Jordan co-directed the music video for lead single “Dead End” with Elsie Richter. Watch it below. ...