Oral contraceptives don’t increase risk of birth defects
Oral contraceptives taken just before or during pregnancy do not increase the risk of birth defects, according to a new ...
Month: February 2018
Crunch time for food security
Credit: © Rothamsted Research Feelings often run high where insects are concerned, with many people even squeamish to look on ...
Key immunological mechanism for regulating intestinal flora discovered
Credit: Jose Cano Researchers at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) have shown for the first time that ...
Chaining up diarrhea pathogens
Credit: Thierry Sollberger Vaccinations are known to protect against pathogens such as bacteria or viruses. They direct the body to ...
Discovery of molecular nets inside heart muscles hold promise for new treatment
Credit: NUHS Researchers discover molecular nets inside heart muscles which hold promise for new heart failure treatment Singapore – Local ...
Under Affordable Care Act, Americans have had more preventive care for heart health
Credit: UCLA Health By reducing out-of-pocket costs for preventive treatment, the Affordable Care Act appears to have encouraged more people ...
Penn team reverses signs of naturally occurring chronic periodontitis
Periodontitis, a gum disease present in nearly half of all adults in the United States, involves inflammation, bleeding and bone ...
Residents of major Pakistan city are exposed to harmful pesticides
Credit: F Quaid-i-Azam University Residents and workers in a major Pakistan city are exposed to harmful levels of pesticides, new ...
Rice cultivation in Southeast Asia: 5 years of lessons learned by LEGATO
Credit: Pavel Stoev Five years of irrigated rice cultivation research reached its pinnacle at the Final LEGATO Conference, which took ...
Researchers crack the smile, describing 3 types by muscle movement
Credit: Courtesy of Paula Niedenthal MADISON, Wis. — The smile may be the most common and flexible expression, used to ...
Freiburg biologists explain function of Pentagone
How do the cells in a human embryo know where they are located in the body and how they should ...
SickKids-led project investigates malnutrition in children, liver…
Credit: © 2016 Sargent et al. Malnourished children living in the same household who are given the same food to ...
OU Professor Recipient of National Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
University of Oklahoma Professor Joseph M. Suflita will receive a national award, the 2016 DuPont Industrial Biosciences Award in Applied ...
Dogs’ social skills linked to oxytocin sensitivity
Credit: Mia Persson The tendency of dogs to seek contact with their owners is associated with genetic variations in sensitivity ...
Ninety-six scientists co-author paper on rainforest mammals
Credit: (c) Noé de la Sancha, The Field Museum. Imagine your hometown or city's entire population had to live on ...
Study points a way to better implantable medical devices
Credit: Photo-illustration by Felice Frankel CAMBRIDGE, MA — Medical devices implanted in the body for drug delivery, sensing, or tissue ...
Gene-editing technique successfully stops progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
IMAGE: Members of the UT Southwestern team whose research successfully halted progression of a form of muscular dystrophy in mice ...
OU law student recipient of Udall Congressionall Internship
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma College of Law student, Aaron L. Fournier, is the recipient of a ...
Rapid response for inflammation control in songbirds’ brains could lead to therapies…
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) March 11, 2016 — A biological process in the brains of zebra finches shows that the songbirds respond ...
Antibiotics against severe salmonella infections in Africa…
"The affected countries will have a major problem if we do not manage to control salmonella bloodstream infections with new ...
