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Largest genetic study of anxiety to date reports findingsCredit: Robert Lisak In the largest genetic study on anxiety to date, ...

The birds and the bats: Evolving to fly may have had big effect on gut microbiome

Comparing microbiomes in 900 vertebrate species revealed that bats have guts more like birds than other mammalsCredit: UC San Diego ...

Birds and bats have strange gut microbiomes — probably because they can fly

Credit: Holly Lutz At a time when kombucha is commonplace on cafe menus and "probiotic-fortified" has become the newest health ...

NCI-MATCH: T-DM1 shows promising activity in salivary gland cancer

Discovery in the NCI-MATCH precision medicine cancer trial is consistent with another recent trial, signaling that the data on ado-trastuzumab ...

Biomarker predicts which patients with heart failure have a higher risk of dying

Credit: DEAN ISHIDA A UCLA-led study revealed a new way to predict which patients with "stable" heart failure -- those ...

Study links Medicaid expansion and recipients’ health status

Credit: Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine In Southern states that expanded their Medicaid programs under the ...

Ghost worms mostly unchanged since the age of dinosaurs

Credit: José Cerca, Christian Meyer, Günter Purschke, Torsten H. Struck That size, shape and structure of organisms can evolve at ...

NASA finds heavy rain potential in Tropical Cyclone Blake

Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson NASA's Aqua satellite provided a near visible image and analyzed the cloud top temperatures in Tropical ...

Poplars genetically modified not to harm air quality grow as well as non-modified trees

Credit: Photo by T. Rosenstiel, Portland State University. CORVALLIS, Ore. - Field trials in the Northwest and Southwest show that ...

New study unravels the complexity of childhood obesity

Credit: University of Notre Dame The World Health Organization has estimated more than 340 million children and adolescents ages 5-19 ...

Scientists find new way to sustainably make chemicals by copying nature’s tricks

Credit: Patrik Jones/Imperial College London Researchers have copied the way organisms produce toxic chemicals without harming themselves, paving the way ...

Biodiverse forests better at storing carbon for long periods, says study

Researchers look at unlogged forests in IndiaCredit: Anand Osuri As the effects of climate change are increasingly felt around the ...

Grower citizen science project uses collaboration to improve soil health

Credit: Natasja van Gestel West Texas cotton growers face many environmental challenges, including rising temperatures, higher temperature extremes, less rainfall, ...

Genes controlling mycorrhizal colonization discovered in soybean

Credit: Michelle Pawlowski, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Like most plants, soybeans pair up with soil fungi in a ...

Cumulative overweight pregnancies increase risk of maternal midlife obesity

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.,publishers New Rochelle, NY, January 6, 2020--Not only is excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) associated with ...

Shutdown of coal-fired plants in US saves lives and improves crop yields

Between 2005 and 2016, the shift away from coal saved an estimated 26,610 lives and 570 million bushels of cropsCredit: ...

Jaguars could prevent a not-so-great American biotic exchange

Maintaining tropical forest predators in Darien could keep coyotes at bayCredit: Fundacion Yaguara Panama For the first time, coyotes (Canis ...

Astronomers spot distant galaxy group driving ancient cosmic makeover

Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA and V. Tilvi (ASU) An international team of astronomers funded in part by NASA has found ...

Vaping lung injury symptoms have been reported online for at least seven years

UC Riverside research used internet data mining to monitor health effects reported by electronic cigarette users over timeCredit: I. Pittalwala, ...

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