Report: A host of common chemicals endanger child brain development
Credit: Graphic by Julie McMahon CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — In a new report, dozens of scientists, health practitioners and children's health ...
Month: February 2018
Hospitals can rapidly identify life-threatening bacteria
Credit: IPC PAS Soon in virtually every hospital it will be possible to identify the bacterial species responsible for an ...
Researchers develop novel wound-healing technology
Credit: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash – A WSU research team has successfully used a mild electric current to take ...
New medicine curriculum offers health care providers ‘universal’ genomics…
Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON – The Universal Genomics Instructor Handbook and Toolkit – a new, free educational ...
Tracking wastewater’s path to wells, groundwater
Credit: Natalie Senger. We often "flush it and forget it" when it comes to waste from toilets and sinks. However, ...
‘Fourth strand’ of European ancestry originated with hunter-gatherers isolated by Ice Age
The first sequencing of ancient genomes extracted from human remains that date back to the Late Upper Palaeolithic period over ...
Birds reveal the importance of good neighbors for health and aging
Credit: Sjouke Anne Kingma Birds who live next door to family members or to other birds they know well are ...
Pennsylvania deer, like mammals worldwide, move less in human-modified…
Credit: Pennsylvania Game Commission In the big woods of Pennsylvania's Northern Tier, the home range of the average white-tailed deer ...
European earthworms decrease species diversity in North America
Credit: Paul Ojanen (University of Minnesota) Leipzig. In Europe, they are classified as beneficial organisms, but many North American ecosystems ...
Parents with bipolar benefit from self-help tool
Credit: Lancaster University Online self-management support for parents with Bipolar Disorder leads to improvements in parenting and child behaviour. That ...
New edition of book showcases the best in southern California medical education
RIVERSIDE, Calif.– Looking forward into the future of medicine and navigating the rapidly changing landscape of patient care and the ...
Novel classification can lead to new ways to diagnose and treat cancer
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A novel approach to studying cancer has enabled researchers to group about 10,000 human cancers ...
New fat cell metabolism research could lead to new ways to treat…
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego report new insights into what nutrients fat cells metabolize to make fatty ...
South Africa’s long-legged bees adapted to pollinate snapdragon…
Credit: Anton Pauw New research from Stellenbosch University (SU) in South Africa shows that, in an extraordinary case of adaptation, ...
A whole-body approach to understanding chemosensory cells
Credit: Junji Hirota Growing evidence shows that sensory cells which enable us to taste sweetness, bitterness and savoriness (umami) are ...
Why air pollutants make some people vulnerable to atopic dermatitis
Credit: Hidaka et al., 2016 Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine and Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo) are pleased to ...
UMass Amherst neuroscientists receive $2.36 million grant to improve brain research tools
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Cognitive neuroscientists Rosie Cowell and David Huber at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently ...
New application of existing drug offers personalized therapy for lung cancer
Credit: James Hall/Oxford University A subset of lung tumours is exquisitely sensitive to a class of recently approved anti-cancer drugs. ...
World-class science recognized as 4 TSL scientists make prestigious…
Credit: The Sainsbury Laboratory Four of the "World's Most Influential Scientific Minds" are scientists from The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, who ...
Tumor-targeting system uses cancer’s own mechanisms to betray…
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — By hijacking a cancer cell's own metabolism, researchers have found a ...
