Harmful metals found in vapors from tank-style electronic cigarettes
UC Riverside study analyzed six popular e-cigarette tanks and their atomizersCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A team...
Study shows nearly half of cancer patients who enter a comprehensive tobacco treatment program quit smoking
Quitlines and other minimal interventions average less than 20% smoking abstinence ratesCredit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON -- In the...
Cellular aging is linked to structural changes in the brain
Telomeres on human chromosomes change together with brain structureCredit: MPI CBS Telomeres are protective caps at the ends of chromosomes...
Analyses of newborn babies’ head odors suggest importance in facilitating bonding
Credit: Kobe University A team led by Kobe University Professor Mamiko Ozaki (Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science) has...
Cancer tumours form surprising connections with healthy brain cells
Healthy neurons form synapses with aggressive brain cancer cells that stimulate the growth and proliferation of brain cancer; anti-epileptic medicine...
Genetic markers linked to the start of symptoms of Parkinson’s disease
New therapeutic targetsCredit: University of Barcelona - UBNeuro Researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona (UBNeuro),...
New design of bioactive peptide nanofibers keeping both temperature reversibility and stiffness control
Credit: Takahiro Muraoka, TUAT A collaboration mainly led by scientists from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) in Japan...
$3M grant to create cybersecurity modeled after human body
University of Arizona electrical and computer engineering researchers are training a future cybersecurity workforce and creating bioinspired methods for keeping...
Men with prostate cancer can be spared radiotherapy after surgery
ESMO 2019 Congress, Sept. 27 - Oct. 1, Barcelona, SpainCredit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Barcelona, Spain, 27 September...
Longest coral reef survey to date reveals major changes in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
Marine biologist Prof. Maoz Fine: 'Following in the footsteps of the pioneers of coral reef biology and ecology was an...
Geometry goes viral: Researchers use maths to solve virus puzzle
Researchers have developed a new mathematical framework that changes the way we understand the structure of viruses such as Zika...
Why viruses like Herpes and Zika will need to be reclassified, and its biotech impact
New findings reveal many different structural models, which can eventually lead to developing more targeted antiviral vaccines.Credit: Antoni Luque, San...
A laser, a crystal and molecular structures
New tool uses wider light spectrum to identify moleculesCredit: Image by Takuro Ideguchi, CC BY-ND-4.0 Researchers have built a new...
Life’s building blocks may have formed in interstellar clouds
Credit: Hokkaido University An experiment shows that one of the basic units of life -- nucleobases -- could have originated...
Oldest galaxy protocluster forms ‘queen’s court’
Credit: NAOJ/Harikane et al. Using the Subaru, Keck, and Gemini Telescopes, an international team of astronomers has discovered a collection...
NIH awards contracts to advance tuberculosis immunology research
Research will help advance TB vaccine developmentCredit: NIAID WHAT: The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of...
Machine learning at the quantum lab
Credit: Department of Physics, University of Basel For several years, the electron spin of individual electrons in a quantum dot...
Shocking heat waves stabilize single atoms
Credit: Zhennan Huang and Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago Single atoms work...
Nearly 1 in 3 patients with lupus use prescription opioids for pain
Credit: Michigan Medicine Although there is little evidence that opioids effectively reduce pain from rheumatic diseases, a new study finds...
Scientists finally find superconductivity in place they have been looking for decades
The Hubbard model, used to understand electron behavior in numerous quantum materials, now shows us its stripes, and superconductivity too,...
