UTSA puts stake in the ground in battle against brain disease
Making a bold commitment to develop groundbreaking approaches for treating brain diseases and injuries, The University of Texas at San ...
Drug combination may improve impact of immunotherapy in head and neck cancer
Credit: UC San Diego Health Checkpoint inhibitor-based immunotherapy has been shown to be very effective in recurrent and metastatic head ...
Flu vaccine used in elderly may benefit middle-aged adults with chronic conditions
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 21, 2017 - Expanding the high-dose influenza vaccine recommendation to include middle-aged adults with chronic health conditions may ...
Dino-killing asteroid’s impact on bird evolution
Credit: Cornell Lab of Ornithology ITHACA, N.Y. - Human activities could change the pace of evolution, similar to what occurred ...
Broad swath of US deemed environmentally suitable for mosquitoes that transmit disease
Credit: CDC/Journal of Medical Entomology Annapolis, MD; September 21, 2017--Three-quarters of counties in the contiguous United States present suitable environmental ...
Big herbivorous dinosaurs ate crustaceans as a side dish, says CU Boulder study
Credit: University of Colorado Some big plant-eating dinosaurs roaming present-day Utah some 75 million years ago were slurping up crustaceans ...
Going diving in the tropics? Don’t eat the reef fish!
Credit: Colette Wabnitz Reducing tourist consumption of reef fish is critical for Palau's ocean sustainability, finds a new UBC study ...
Heat-loving Australian ants believe in diversity, hint 74 species new to science
Credit: Dr. Brian Heterick The 'furnace ants' or 'honeypot ants' present a very large genus of ants, Melophorus, confined to ...
Football helmet smartfoam signals potential concussions in real time
Credit: BYU Photo Most football fans have seen players get hit so hard they can barely walk back to the ...
Obese dogs helped by ‘effective’ weight loss trials
On average overweight dogs lose an average of 11% of their bodyweight when enrolled on a weight loss trial according ...
Researchers set time limit for ultrafast perovskite solar cells
Researchers have quantified the astonishingly high speeds at which future solar cells would have to operate in order to stretch ...
Lightning-fast trappers
Credit: Flower images: Andreas Fleischmann, Trap images: Plant Biomechanics Group Freiburg Bladderworts (Utricularia spp. Lentibulariaceae) are plants with many superlatives: ...
CWRU researcher wins $5.5 million federal grant to develop bio-inspired materials
Credit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND--With a new $5.5 million, five-year federal grant, a Case Western Reserve University researcher is ...
UMN researchers find recipe for forest restoration
The good news: Recognizing the incredible value of forests in providing habitat, storing carbon dioxide, purifying water and more, people ...
Production of key diabetes cells can be improved
Beta cells release insulin in your blood, but when you suffer from Type 1 diabetes, you hardly have any of ...
Changing of the guard — research sheds light on how plants breathe
New research is set to change the textbook understanding of how plants breathe. Previous explanations of how plants take up ...
Researchers discover new cattle disease and prevent it from spreading
Within Danish cattle breeding the semen of one breeding bull is used to inseminate a lot of cows. Due to ...
Scientists and farmers work together to wipe out African lovegrass
Credit: QUT Marketing & Communication. A partnership between QUT, the NSW Government and farmers could lead to the eventual eradication ...
Tiny Brazilian frogs are deaf to their own calls
Credit: Sandra Goutte Pumpkin toadlets, found on the leaf litter of Brazil's Atlantic forest, are among the smallest frogs in ...
An extraordinary cave animal found in Eastern Turkmenistan
Credit: Aleksandr Degtyarev A remote cave in Eastern Turkmenistan was found to shelter a marvelous cave-adapted inhabitant that turned out ...
