For these critically endangered marine turtles, climate change could be a knockout blow
Credit: Wikimedia Commons TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Hawksbill turtles aren't the only marine turtles threatened by the destabilizing effects of climate ...
Month: December 2018
Potential range for new invasive tick covers much of eastern US
Asian longhorned tick could find plenty of suitable habitat in North America similar to its native regionCredit: Ilia Rochlin, Ph.D., ...
First line immunotherapy combination fails to improve overall survival in lung cancer
ESMO Immuno-Oncology Congress, Dec. 13-16, Geneva, SwitzerlandCredit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Geneva, Switzerland, 13 December 2018 - First ...
DFG announces winners of 2019 Leibniz Prizes
Germany's most prestigious research award, Awards ceremony on March 13, 2019 in Berlin The latest recipients of Germany's most prestigious ...
Colorado River Delta report provides restoration road map
International Boundary and Water Commission releases report on four-year scientific study by a University of Arizona-led binational teamCredit: Ernesto García ...
Control HIV by treating schistosomiasis, new study suggests
Credit: Wetzel and Shaefer, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain, 2001 Of the 34 million people worldwide with HIV, and the 200 ...
NIH scientists find that breast cancer protection from pregnancy starts decades later
Breast cancer risk remains elevated 20-30 years after childbirthCredit: NIEHS In general, women who have had children have a lower ...
Open science and data initiative announced for neurofibromatosis
Major research funders join together to advance research into genetic disorderCredit: Children's Tumor Foundation New York/Baltimore/Seattle - The Children's Tumor ...
DFG to fund 9 new Research Units and 1 Clinical Research Unit
Topics range from rheumatoid arthritis to the effects of volcanic eruptions on the Earth's climate system; approximately €28 million for ...
A painless adhesive
Adhesives for biomedical applications can be detached with lightCredit: (Video courtesy of Zhigang Suo/Harvard SEAS) Pulling off a Band-Aid may ...
Building an AI to predict if you carry a killer on your skin
Staphylococcus epidermidis is an ubiquitous colonizer of healthy human skin, but it is also a notorious source of serious nosocomial ...
A summary of electrospun nanofibers as drug delivery system
This article by Dr. José Manuel Cornejo Bravo et al. is published in Current Drug Delivery, Volume 15 , Issue ...
Breastfeeding for more than 6 months associated with smaller maternal waist circumference
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 14, 2018--Breastfeeding for more than 6 months was found to ...
Two UTA researchers elected fellows of National Academy of Inventors
National honorsCredit: UT Arlington Two leading University of Texas at Arlington faculty have been named fellows of the National Academy ...
HIV vaccine protects non-human primates from infection
LA JOLLA, CA - For more than 20 years, scientists at Scripps Research have chipped away at the challenges of ...
Folate deficiency creates hitherto unknown problems in connection with cell division
Folate deficiency creates more problems in connection with DNA replication than researchers had hitherto assumed, researchers from the University of ...
There is hope amidst environmental anxiety, says a scholar of ecotheology
Credit: Mika Federley, University of Helsinki Eco-anxiety encompasses difficult emotions experienced to a significant degree due to environmental issues. Environmental ...
Wiring diagram of the brain provides a clearer picture of brain scan data
Researchers use connectome to reconcile seemingly inconsistent neuroimaging findings BOSTON - Already affecting more than five million Americans older than ...
Exploring ways to reduce child deaths in low-income countries
A simple algorithm could contribute to reducing the high mortality among newborns and babies in the month following their hospital ...
A role for microRNAs in social behavior
Researchers uncover how a microRNA cluster regulates synapse development and sociability Heidelberg, 14 December 2018 - The recent discovery of ...
