Clemson experts study proper vomit cleanup in long-term care facilities
CLEMSON, South Carolina -- Vomit can create huge health concerns and for the more than 2 million people currently living ...
Breast cancer cells become invasive by changing their identity
Researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a protein that determines the identity and invasive properties of breast cancer ...
Despite government claims, orangutan populations have not increased
Credit: HUTAN-KOCP Leipzig/Brunei. Orangutan populations are still declining rapidly, despite claims by the Indonesian Government that things are looking better ...
Clues for drugging the ‘undruggable’
AN 'UNDRUGGABLE' GROUP OF PROTEINS Most FDA-approved small molecule drugs inhibit enzymes - biology's protein machines that catalyze chemical reactions. ...
New gene therapy reprograms brain glial cells into neurons
A new gene therapy can turn certain brain glial cells into functioning neurons, which in turn could help repair the ...
Researchers uncover gene that regulates fat accumulation and obesity
As obesity continues to be the leading cause of deaths world-wide, researchers are working to understand what role genetics play ...
StataCorp LLC and Code Ocean partner to accelerate reproducible research with code
StataCorp and Code Ocean announce a partnership enabling researchers to share Stata software code on Code Ocean, a computational reproducibility ...
Magnetic pumping pushes plasma particles to high energies
PORTLAND, Ore.--As you walk away from a campfire on a cool autumn night, you quickly feel colder. The same thing ...
Peak performance: new stellarator experiments show promising results
Credit: (Image credit - Bernhard Ludewig, Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics) PORTLAND, Ore.--Imagine building a machine so advanced and ...
New epilepsy warning device could save thousands of lives
Credit: LivAssured A new high-tech bracelet, developed by scientists from the Netherlands detects 85 percent of all severe night-time epilepsy ...
A step closer of making the modern digital world to extend human healthspan
Credit: Estonian Research Council/Reimo Rehkli The research group of Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics of Tallinn University of Technology ...
Recreating the sound of the Islamic past of the Mosque of Cordoba
Credit: University of Seville How did words or the rain sound inside the Mosque of Cordoba in the time of ...
Scientists propose panel to guide gene-editing decisions regarding conservation
An Oregon State University environmental ethicist and scientists from nine other universities say an international oversight panel is needed to ...
Saber-toothed cats with oral injuries ate softer foods
Credit: (Copyright, Larisa DeSantis, free to use.) Saber-toothed cats with oral injuries ate softer foods than their uninjured counterparts, who ...
Breakthrough for treatment of fibrotic diseases
Scientists have discovered a drug combination that could halt the progression of fibrosis - a condition believed to be responsible ...
Is foraging behaviour regulated the same way in humans and worms?
Credit: A. Bergs, A. Gottschalk. Finding food and staying at a food source are crucial survival strategies in the animal ...
Air pollution linked to autism: study
The study of children in Shanghai, from birth to three years, found that exposure to fine particles (PM2.5) from vehicle ...
The reasons for hemispheric dominance in the brain
The left and the right hemispheres specialise in different tasks. However, it has not yet been fully understood how one ...
Arima Genomics completes early access program and launches the Arima-HiC platform
Credit: Arima Genomics, Inc. SAN DIEGO-- Arima Genomics, Inc., a biotechnology company empowering researchers to apply long-range genetic sequence and ...
New NYU Abu Dhabi research suggests corals produce molecules that can help resist disease
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Alexandray Mystikou and Prof. Shady Amin. Fast facts: Recent research shows that corals' resistance to disease ...
