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The first ichthyosaurs swam through the primordial oceans in the early Triassic period about 250 million years ago. They had...

Gene mutations that contribute to head and neck cancer also provide “precision” treatment targets

AUGUSTA, Ga. (April 28, 2022) – About one-fifth of often deadly head and neck cancers harbor genetic mutations in a pathway...

National University of Singapore, Quantum Engineering Programme and Keysight MOU signing ceremony

Keysight and Singapore’s Quantum Engineering Programme to accelerate research, development and education in quantum technologies

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading provider of advanced design and validation solutions, and Singapore’s Quantum Engineering Programme (QEP)...

Hype up fitness to support kids’ health post-lockdowns

As COVID-19 reaches record levels in the UK, health experts are calling for a focus on children’s physical fitness as...

Non-invasive examination of conjunctival goblet cells in live rabbits

A Korean research team led by Professor Ki Hean Kim, Ph.D. candidates Seonghan Kim and Jungbin Lee (Department of Mechanical...

Give bidi cigarette rollers a voice to find new jobs, researchers say

India’s bidi cigarette workers need to be at the heart of discussions about finding alternatives to working in the tobacco...

An epigenetic cause of miscarriages is identified and cured in mice

Researchers led by Azusa Inoue at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan have discovered a gene...

Inside the acidic environment of the stomach, pZCs remain in their associated state, but disassociate as they move into the intestine.

How to help the medicine go down: how UMass Amherst scientists are helping to engineer the next generation of medications

AMHERST, Mass. – Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced that they have engineered a new class of...

Scientists implicate non-cardiac genes in congenital heart disease

CHAPEL HILL, NC – Inside embryonic cells, specific proteins control the rate at which genetic information is transcribed from DNA...

Zeroing in on a new treatment for autism and epilepsy

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—April 27, 2022—Children with Dravet syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy that begins in infancy, experience seizures, usually...

A refined microbiome “fingerprint” method tracks sub-strain variants of a single gut microbe strain

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Casey D. Morrow, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham previously developed a microbiome...

Neuronal circuit involved in chronic pain-induced maladaptive anxiet

Neuronal plasticity in chronic pain-induced anxiety revealed

Hokkaido University researchers have shown how chronic pain leads to maladaptive anxiety in mice, with implications for treatment of chronic...

People who self-harmed during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been less likely to seek help and have found it harder to access in-patient treatment, according to study of over 3.5 million Welsh citizens

People who self-harmed during the COVID-19 pandemic may have been less likely to seek help and have found it harder...

Remote Ireland community survived a millennium of environmental change

A remote community in Ireland was adaptable enough to persist through a millennium of environmental change, according to a study...

Tangle no more, nanotubes

HOUSTON – (April 27, 2022) – Carbon nanotubes that are prone to tangle like spaghetti can use a little special...

Ashok Kumar, University of Houston College of Pharmacy Else and Philip Hargrove Endowed Professor and chair, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences

How it works: The protein that stimulates muscle growth

In the gym, you are not just pumping iron, you are oxygenating muscle cells which keeps those muscles healthy, strong...

Lab findings suggest EGFR inhibitors may prevent rhabdomyosarcoma recurrence

(Memphis, Tenn.—April 27, 2022) Rhabdomyosarcoma is a type of soft tissue cancer. Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital studied...

Bat box design, placement matter for energy balance in endangered bats

URBANA, Ill. – Imagine if you had to catch every bite of your dinner with your mouth, while flying, in...

With interactions in the bone marrow, inflammatory disorders exacerbate one another

How one inflammatory disorder exacerbates another

The immune system remembers. Often this memory, primed by past encounters with threats like bacteria or viruses, is an asset....

Supernova reveals secrets to texas-led team of astronomers