Month: July 2018

Credit: Alli Benjamin, APR The Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center, headquartered at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, has ...

NSU M.D. college researcher receives NIH grant to study tissue regeneration

Credit: Nova Southeastern University Vladimir Beljanski, Ph.D., clinical research assistant professor, Nova Southeastern University Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of ...

Nosocomial neonatal meningitis with Acinetobacter baumannii on myelomeningocele

Imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii meningitis is a hospital-acquired infection, the treatment of which constitutes a real therapeutic challenge. In this article, ...

The Virtual Brain neuroinformatics platform joins the EU’s Flagship Human Brain Project

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) are pleased to announce that 'The Virtual Brain' neuroinformatics ...

National Academies target opioid abuse and infectious disease consequences

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) today released proceedings of a March 12 workshop exploring the rise ...

Study describes enzyme’s key role in immune response to Chagas disease parasite

In an article published recently in the journal Nature Communications, researchers affiliated with the University of São Paulo (USP) in ...

Breast cancer follow-up imaging varies widely, study finds

Follow-up imaging for women with non-metastatic breast cancer varies widely across the country, according to a new study led by ...

How fast can acute stroke treatment become to still be reliable?

Every day roughly three new stroke suspects are rushed by ambulance to Helsinki University Hospital Emergency Department to be considered ...

Yale researchers identify target for novel malaria vaccine

Credit: Richard Bucala New Haven, Conn. -- A Yale-led team of researchers have created a vaccine that protects against malaria ...

Researchers trace Parkinson’s damage in the heart

MADISON, Wis. -- A new way to examine stress and inflammation in the heart will help Parkinson's researchers test new ...

Fragile X: New drug strategy corrects behavior/biochemical measures in mouse model

Research in mice shows that a pharmacological strategy can alleviate multiple behavioral and cellular deficiencies in a mouse model of ...

Rats trail behind shrews, monkeys, and humans in visual problem solving

Credit: Mustafar et al., eNeuro (2018) Rats take a fundamentally different approach toward solving a simple visual discrimination task than ...

Understanding the social dynamics that cause cooperation to thrive, or fail

Credit: Amiyaal Ilany Examples of cooperation abound in nature, from honeybee hives to human families. Yet it's also easy enough ...

New research: Financial incentives create critical waterbird habitat in extreme drought

News Release: July 12, 2018 - Projections by climate scientists suggest that severe droughts may become more frequent over the ...

Longer contracts leverage the free fuel in solar power at little O&M cost

Credit: ®SENER The world's first 35-year day or night solar contract (ACWA Power's with DEWA in Dubai) also had a ...

URI-led consortium selected to operate new research ship to replace R/V Endeavor

Credit: Glosten Assocates KINGSTON, R.I. - July 12, 2018 - The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected the East Coast ...

Massive genome havoc in breast cancer is revealed

Credit: Schatz Lab, CSHL/JHU Cold Spring Harbor, NY - In cancer cells, genetic errors wreak havoc. Misspelled genes, as well ...

New evidence of two subspecies of American pikas in Rocky Mountain National Park

CORVALLIS, Ore. -Rocky Mountain National Park provides habitat for not one, but two subspecies of the American pika, a species ...

Algae have land genes

Credit: (Picture rotated 90 degrees: Nora Stingl, Rob Roelfsema, Anna Alova) 500 million years ago, the first plants living in ...

International collaboration finds land plant genes in ancient aquatic alga