How a molecular signal helps plant cells decide when to make oil
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--A study at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory identifies new details of ...
Month: September 2018
NSF awards $15 million to understand how humans can better interact with the environment
Credit: WV DEP A toxic red tide, or harmful algae bloom, is killing swaths of marine life and affecting the ...
Mosquitoes that can carry malaria eliminated in lab experiments
The team from Imperial College London were able to crash caged populations of the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae in ...
Women with non-small cell lung cancers live longer than men, WCLC study shows
Women diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) live longer than their male counterparts, according to results of a SWOG ...
Does our environment affect the genes in our brains?
Is there a link between differences in IQ test performance and the activity of certain genes? Researchers from Charité - ...
A new remedy for celiac disease
Credit: TU Wien Celiac disease is a fairly common disease, affecting one to two percent of the European population. It ...
Call for new approaches to fill significant gaps in understanding Parkinson’s disease
Credit: CIPhotos WASHINGTON, DC (September 24, 2018)--Analysis published in Drug Discovery Today reveals the gap between animal models of Parkinson's ...
Dosimetry and toxicity studies of a sulfonamide derivative of Sulforhodamine 101
Background The SR101 N-(3-Fluoropropyl) sulfonamide (SRF101) is a Sulforhodamine 101 (SR101) derivative that was previously synthesised by our group. The ...
Lancaster professor to research how genes affect quitting smoking
Credit: Lancaster University The Canadian Institute of Health Research has awarded $929,475 to Professor Jo Knight of Lancaster Medical School, ...
Weight loss can be boosted fivefold thanks to novel mental imagery technique
Credit: University of Plymouth Overweight people who used a new motivational intervention called Functional Imagery Training (FIT) lost an average ...
Stepfathers’ ‘Cinderella effect’ challenged by new study
Long-held assumptions that stepfathers are far more likely to be responsible for child deaths than genetic parents have been challenged ...
Alarmingly low awareness of urology across Europe
Credit: European Association of Urology (EAU) Arnhem (The Netherlands), 24 September 2018 - Public awareness of urological conditions is alarmingly ...
UA Immunobiology Chief awarded $1.5 million grant to study threat of Chikungunya to elderly
(University of Arizona Health Sciences) Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine -- Tucson will study why the ...
NSF award to provide new insights on how drinking water and public health systems interact
DETROIT (September 24, 2018) - A research team at Wayne State University recently received a four-year, $1.57 million grant from ...
Results from the ULTIMATE trial reported at TCT 2018 and published simultaneously in JACC
SAN DIEGO - September 24, 2018 - The first study designed to determine the benefits of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guidance ...
NIRS-IVUS detects patients and plaques vulnerable to subsequent adverse coronary events
SAN DIEGO - September 24, 2018 - Results from the Lipid-Rich Plaque (LRP) study demonstrate the correlation between the presence ...
Results from the OAC-ALONE trial reported at TCT 2018 and published in Circulation
SAN DIEGO - September 24, 2018 - The first randomized trial of its kind was unable to establish non-inferiority of ...
Violence in pre-Columbian Panama exaggerated, new study shows
(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) An oft-cited publication said a pre-Colombian archaeological site in Panama showed signs of extreme violence. A ...
Leading addiction experts call for more neuroscience research on long-term recovery
September is addiction recovery month, and, in the midst of the current opioid epidemic, it's an apt moment for addiction ...
Organs are not just bystanders, may be active participants in fighting autoimmune disease
PITTSBURGH, September 24, 2018 - Organs affected by autoimmune disease could be fighting back by "exhausting" immune cells that cause ...
