Month: March 2020

Despite expert recommendations to talk about good and bad touch during preschool years, just 3 in 5 parents agree that ...

Ancient mantis-man petroglyph discovered in Iran

Credit: Dr. Mohammad Naserifard A unique rock carving found in the Teymareh rock art site (Khomein county) in Central Iran ...

Nanostructured rubber-like material with optimal properties could replace human tissue

Credit: Anna Lena Lundqvist/Chalmers Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have created a new, rubber-like material with a unique ...

Study suggests LEGO bricks could survive in ocean for up to 1,300 years

Credit: Andrew Turner, University of Plymouth A LEGO brick could survive in the ocean for as many as 1,300 years, ...

Can traumatic memories be erased?

March 14, 2020

Environmental light shown to affect retention of traumatic long-term memory in fliesCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan - Scientists from ...

Bacteria form biofilms like settlers form cities

New research from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Dental Medicine gives a satellite-level view of how biofilms grow and ...

Resolving inflammation: Could it prevent memory loss in Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s?

Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina and elsewhere discover the therapeutic potential for a class of lipids to ...

Human activity affects interactions between plants and seed-dispersing birds

Analysis of Atlantic Rainforest fragments shows how extinction of animal species, habitat loss and forest fragmentation affect networks of ecological ...

UM professor helps Malaysia develop conservation areas, protect species

Credit: Jedediah Brodie MISSOULA - Jedediah Brodie has spent a career tromping around tropical rainforests, conducting on-the-ground research in some ...

Oncotarget: Prognostic and predictive factors in pancreatic cancer

Oncotarget Volume 11, Issue 10 reported that there are not standardized predictive biomarkers able to identify patients who benefit most ...

How skin cells embark on a swift yet elaborate death

Credit: Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller University Skin is our body's most ...

NASA’s Terra Satellite observes development of Tropical Storm 22S

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Terra satellite passed over the Southern Indian Ocean ...

Mimicking cancer’s evasive tactics, microparticles show promise for transplant rejection

Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, March 13, 2020 - Inspired by a tactic cancer cells use to evade the immune system, University ...

How sperm unpack dad’s genome so it can merge with mom’s

UC San Diego researchers discover the enzyme SPRK1's role in reorganizing the paternal genome during the first moments of fertilization ...

Insilico Medicine to present at the Systems Aging Gordon Research Conference

New deep biomarkers of aging to be presented at the Systems Aging Gordon Research ConferenceCredit: Insilico March 13, 2020 - ...

Oncotarget: MicroRNA (miR) dysregulation during Helicobacter pylori-induced gastric

Oncotarget Volume 11, Issue 10 reported that dysregulation of noncoding micro RNA molecules has been associated with immune cell activation ...

Oncotarget: DNA methylation of MMPs and TIMPs in atherothrombosis process in carotid plaques

Oncotarget Volume 11, Issue 10 reported that the statistically associated Cp G sites were analyzed in blood samples from two ...

Oncotarget: A microRNA-based signature predicts local-regional failure and overall survival

The cover for issue 10 of Oncotarget features Figure 3, 'Overall survival (OS) for high (red) versus low (black) risk ...

Invisible plastics in water

Credit: WSU A Washington State University research team has found that nanoscale particles of the most commonly used plastics tend ...

Receptors for the immune defence