Finnish forest management guidelines fail to protect the flying squirrel
Credit: Andrea Santangeli A new study determined the habitat requirements for flying squirrels and compared them to those included in ...
Month: June 2018
Mindfulness helps injured athletes improve pain tolerance and awareness
A new study of injured athletes carried out by the University of Kent found they can benefit from using mindfulness ...
Tropical ‘banana eater’ birds lived in North America 52 million years ago
Credit: Daniel J Field A fossil of an ancestor of modern tropical birds has been found in North America, proving ...
Blockade at the receptor
Credit: Karthika Rajeeve Chlamydia trachomatis is the main cause of sexually transmitted diseases. More than 131 million people are infected ...
New regulatory axis revealed for the cancer relevant matrix metalloprotease MMP14
(University of Helsinki) Membrane-associated metalloprotease, MMP14, plays a significant role in different cancer tissues -- for instance in breast cancer ...
The origins of fine-particle pollution in Guangzhou, China
Credit: Nan Wang Haze pollution is an integrated result of emissions, chemical reactions and regional transport under unfavorable weather conditions. ...
More woodland management needed to help save dormice
Managing woodlands to a greater extent could help stop the decline of Britain's dormice, new research suggests. Dormouse numbers are ...
Scientists explore how high blood pressure hurts cognition
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (June 26, 2018) - The squeeze high blood pressure puts on ...
Majority of teenagers need food safety education
A new study from the University of Waterloo highlights a low level of awareness among youth around the proper precautions ...
UCI researcher receives CIRM funding for stem cell-based retina therapy to treat blindness
Credit: UCI, Seiler Lab University of California, Irvine stem cell researcher Magdalene J. Seiler, PhD, has received a $4.8 million ...
US flight attendants at elevated risk of several forms of cancer
Boston, MA - U.S. flight attendants have a higher prevalence of several forms of cancer, including breast cancer, uterine cancer, ...
US flight crew have higher cancer rates than general population
Flight crew have higher rates of specific cancers than the general population, according to a study in the open access ...
Portland State scientist awarded $700,000 NSF grant to study biological decision-making
Portland State University biologist Deborah Lutterschmidt won a $700,000 continuation grant from the National Science Foundation to study an essential ...
SNMMI image of the year: PSMA PET imaging of theranostic for advanced prostate cancer
Credit: Michael Hofman, John Violet, Shahneen Sandhu, Justin Ferdinandus, Amir Iravani, Grace Kong, Aravind Ravi Kumar, Tim Akhurst, Sue Ping ...
Historic growth in impact factors for Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. journals
New Rochelle, NY, June 26, 2018-- Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers announces significant growth in the impact factors of its ...
Carbohydrates shape the profile of gut metabolites in piglet model of NEC
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine The risk of preterm infants developing necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is higher when they are fed ...
New imaging technique to use bioinspired camera to study tendon, ligament damage
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis Tommy John surgery, or reconstruction of the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) in the elbow, ...
A new link between cancer and aging
Credit: Brennan Wesley Scientists at Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina have found that human lung ...
Progress toward improved Wilson’s disease drug
Credit: Tonks Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), working in collaboration with ...
Human insulin as safe and effective to treat type 2 diabetes as costlier insulin analogs
Patients with Type 2 diabetes who were treated with the newer generation of insulin analog drugs did not have substantially ...
