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Credit: Professor Naomi Nakagata Rat spermatozoa are two to four times larger than that of other animal species and are...

IU study looks at the effect of Medicaid expansion on the SUD treatment workforce

Credit: Indiana University Lawmakers have focused a great deal of attention on alleviating the opioid public health crisis, while at...

Dr. Gary M. Shaw receives the SPR’s Douglas K. Richardson award

Credit: Dr. Gary M. Shaw The Society for Pediatric Research (SPR) is pleased to announce Gary M. Shaw, DrPH, as the...

Health and Technology District partners with Music Heals and SFU on mental health study

Mental health study combines music therapy and functional brain imagingCredit: SFU ImageTech Lab Surrey, B.C., Canada (January 31, 2020) The...

Get easily out of breath? It may be because you were small at birth, study finds

Credit: Karolinska Institutet Babies born with low birth weights are more likely to have poor cardiorespiratory fitness later in life...

Choice of anesthesia may affect breast cancer metastases

Credit: Stony Brook University STONY BROOK, NY, January 29, 2020 - A new study led by Stony Brook University Cancer...

Zoo improvements should benefit all animals

Credit: Paul Rose Zoo improvements should benefit all animals and include a wide range of "enrichment" techniques, researchers say. Zoos...

Could resetting our internal clocks help control diabetes?

Researchers from UNIGE and HUG were able to demonstrate the link between disturbances of the circadian clocks in pancreatic cells...

Shriners affiliation, fertility research, and microbiome paper

The Jackson Laboratory announces research affiliation with Shriners Hospital, publishes fertility paper in Genes & Development, and publishes microbiome paper...

Obesity Medicine Association announces key updates to its 2020 Adult Obesity Algorithm

Identified as the most common cause of prevalent patient conditions, updates help clinicians better address chronic disease of obesityCredit: Obesity...

UW’s new WE-REACH center to accelerate development of biomedical discoveries

Credit: University of Washington With $4 million in matching funds from the National Institutes of Health, the University of Washington...

AIAA announces 2020 International Student Conference winners

Ohio State, UT San Antonio, GATech among winnersCredit: AIAA The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is pleased to...

Machine learning technique speeds up crystal structure determination

Credit: Vecchio lab/Science Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a computer-based method that could make it...

Bacteria engineered to protect bees from pests and pathogens

Credit: Alex Wild/University of Texas at Austin Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin report in the journal Science...

Imaging study of key viral structure shows how HIV drugs work at atomic level

Salk Institute findings will help inform the development of new and improved treatments for HIVCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(January 30,...

A quantum of solid

Credit: © Lorenzo Magrini, Yuriy Coroli/University of Vienna It is well known that quantum properties of individual atoms can be...

Hemp ‘goes hot’ due to genetics, not growing conditions

Credit: Justin James Muir/Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - As the hemp industry grows, producers face the risk of cultivating a...

Research zeroing in on electronic nose for monitoring air quality, diagnosing disease

Credit: Arni Sturluson, Melanie Huynh, OSU College of Engineering CORVALLIS, Ore. - Research at Oregon State University has pushed science...

Immune response in brain, spinal cord could offer clues to treating neurological diseases

University of Alberta researcher discovers that immune cells in the brain and central nervous system interfere with those in the...

Gene hunting: The power of precision medicine