Month: October 2019

Credit: Ulf Sirborn Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have uncovered a chromosome-wide mechanism that keeps the gene expression of ...

Poor mental and physical health in pregnancy linked to infant sleep problems

Severe and persistent infant sleep problems in the first year are linked to poor maternal mental and physical health during ...

MIT sets out to model Alzheimer’s disease complexity on a chip

Credit: The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory The complexity of Alzheimer's disease, which affects many types of cells in ...

NUS SDE4 receives international recognition for building designed to improve health and wellness

The state-of-the-art net-zero energy building is the first university building in the world to be WELL Certified™ Gold, and the ...

Confronting colony collapse

Scientists sequence the genomes of the parasitic mites harming the world's beesCredit: OIST Honey bee colony collapse has devastating consequences ...

Supercomputing, neutrons unite to unravel structures of intrinsically disordered protein

Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy Using the Titan supercomputer and the Spallation Neutron Source at the ...

First maps of areas suitable for spotted lanternfly’s establishment in US and world

Credit: ARS-USDA WAPATO, WASHINGTON, October 3, 2019--Maps identifying the areas suitable for establishment of the spotted lanternfly (SLF) in the ...

Targeting regulator of mitochondrial cell death delivers anticancer activity

Credit: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA -- (Oct. 3, 2019) -- A novel anticancer molecule created by researchers at The Wistar ...

Addictive de-vices: How we can unplug from this 21st century epidemic

Credit: Helena Lopes We spend our days looking at them, talking to them, and touching them. They increasingly consume our ...

Will new CDC measures work to control nursing home infections?

Researchers receive federal grant to determine whether new government recommendations can prevent antibiotic-resistant infections in nursing homesCredit: UMSOM The Centers ...

‘Dietary’ vulnerability found in cancer cells with mutated spliceosomes

Researchers envision a patient-specific 'oncology diet' to exploit the weaknessCredit: W. Brian Dalton, M.D., Ph.D. A research team from the ...

Sentinels in the mouth

Special sensory cells in the gums protect against periodontitisCredit: Monell Chemical Senses Center; Nature Communications PHILADELPHIA (October 3, 2019) - ...

U of G researchers discover potential drug to treat heart attacks

A potential drug to treat heart attacks and to prevent heart failure -- for which no cure currently exists -- ...

Eco-friendly electrochemical catalysts using solar cells to harvest energy from the sun

Credit: Chemical Communications A research team from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and Kanazawa University develops an eco-friendly device ...

The phenological index

A tool to understand how ecosystems are responding to a changing climateCredit: Love et al., 2019 As climate change accelerates, ...

In women with HIV, TB preventive therapy poses greater risk in pregnancy than postpartum

Deferring drug until after delivery is safer, NIH-funded trial findsCredit: NIAID Study results published today help clarify how to safely ...

Most kidney transplants between people with HIV have long-term success

Recipients living with HIV show no indication of secondary infection with donor HIV strainCredit: NIAID People living with HIV who ...

NIH grant aims to reduce neuromuscular effects of chemotherapy in breast cancer survivors

A University of South Florida nursing researcher received the new National Cancer Institute grant to study whether a home exercise ...

Machine learning predicts behavior of biological circuits

Neural networks cut modeling times of complex biological circuits to enable new insights into their inner workingsCredit: Lingchong You, Duke ...

Mutant cells team up to make an even deadlier blood cancer