Month: August 2018

Credit: National University of Singapore A research team led by scientists from the Cancer Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at ...

LSU health research discovers new link between hypoxia and blood clot risk

Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - Research led by Rinku Majumder, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry at ...

UMN Medical School researchers study how cues drive our behavior

MINNEAPOLIS, MN- August 02, 2018 - Do dopamine neurons have a role in causing cues in our environment to acquire ...

Fish reproduction: Two times a lady

Credit: Photo taken by Takafumi Fujimoto A DNA probing technique clarifies the mechanism behind clonal reproduction of female dojo loach ...

Obesity extends duration of influenza a virus shedding

Credit: NIAID WHAT: Obesity, which increases influenza disease severity, also extends by about 1.5 days how long influenza A virus ...

Maternal dengue immunity protects against fetal damage in mice following Zika infection

Credit: CC LA JOLLA, CA--Dengue and Zika viruses are closely related and carried by mosquitos. In infested subtropical and tropical ...

Muscle ‘switch’ may control the benefits of exercise

Credit: Joslin Diabetes Center Communications Office BOSTON - (August 2, 2018) - Some people respond well to both aerobic exercise ...

Study suggests obesity may also impact flu transmission, not just severity of illness

Obesity increases a person's risk for severe complications from influenza, including hospitalization and even death. It may also play a ...

Newly discovered crossbill species numbers few

Credit: C.W. Benkman As might be expected for a recently discovered bird species in the continental United States - only ...

DIY robots help marine biologists discover new deep-sea dwellers

Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute While the cold and airless deep sea is inhabitable for humans, it is filled with delicate ...

Harmful dyes in lakes, rivers can become colorless with new, sponge-like material

Credit: Kiyomi Taguchi/University of Washington Dyes are widely used in industries such as textiles, cosmetics, food processing, papermaking and plastics. ...

Chirality switching in biomineral structures

Researchers at McGill University have discovered a mechanism by which helical biomineral structures can be synthesized to spiral clockwise or ...

Computer simulations predict the spread of HIV

Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., August 1, 2018 -- In a recently published study in the journal ...

What can the herpesvirus teach us about oral inflammation?

Credit: UIC/Chris Bevel A $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help University of Illinois at Chicago ...

Microscopic imaging pierces the ‘black box’ of cancer bone metastasis

Scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have engineered a system allowing microscopic monitoring and imaging of ...

NSF backs strategy to reconstruct cancer cells’ evolution

Credit: Mika Nakhleh The National Science Foundation has awarded two grants for a combined $1.5 million to Rice University computational ...

Muslim, Protestant scientists most likely to experience, perceive religious discrimination

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Aug. 1, 2018) - Muslim and Protestant scientists are more likely than other U.S. ...

Understanding soil through its microbiome

Credit: EMBL/Hildebrand/Krolik in collaboration with Campbell Medical Illustration Soil is full of life, essential for nutrient cycling and carbon storage. ...

Breaking up ‘fatbergs’: UBC engineers develop technique to break down fats, oil and grease

Credit: Clare Kiernan/UBC Cooking oil and similar waste can clog pipes, harm fish and even grow into solid deposits like ...

Fishing fleets travelling further to catch fewer fish