Structure of major brain receptor that is treatment target for epilepsy, anxiety solved
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - June 27, 2018 - UT Southwestern researchers today published the first atomic structure of a...
The key to getting published in biomedicine
Credit: World Scientific Besides good content, what else can professionals in the medical and para-medical professions do to improve their...
Women’s diseases that doctors must know
Credit: World Scientific Gynecological complaints account for a large burden of day-to-day practice in family medicine, in hospital emergency rooms,...
How water rules the world
Credit: World Scientific Why should I care about water when I can get as much as I want from my...
To tell the sex of a Galápagos penguin, measure its beak, researchers say
(University of Washington) Scientists at the University of Washington have announced that, for a Galápagos penguin, beak size is nearly...
Hip arthroscopy innovation represents paradigm shift for the surgery
CLEVELAND - Orthopedic surgeon Michael Salata, MD, Director, Joint Preservation and Cartilage Restoration Center at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center...
Obstetric trauma rates for forceps deliveries have increased in Canada
Trauma to both mother and baby during vaginal deliveries, especially forceps deliveries, has increased in Canada in recent years, according...
UA genetics research verifies purity of the Mexican wolf
In October 2015, two small minnows in the Lower Colorado River Basin -- the headwater chub and the roundtail chub...
Salk Institute researchers win five competitive grants for cancer research
Credit: Padres Pedal the Cause LA JOLLA--(June 26, 2018) Salk Institute scientists Ronald Evans, Diana Hargreaves, Tony Hunter, Graham McVicker...
VHIO scientists reveal novel drug-target to strangle sleeping cancer cells
(Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology) Latest discovery promises new weaponry against dormant tumor cells to counteract resistance and prevent disease...
Substance found in grapes prevents agglomeration of a mutant protein that leads to cancer
Researchers at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) have...
Fluorescence imaging technique goes from micro to macro, moves closer to clinic
Credit: Vladislav Shcheslavskiy WASHINGTON -- Researchers have scaled up a powerful fluorescence imaging technique used to study biological processes on...
What nipple size means for evolutionary biology
Nipple size varies markedly from woman to woman, whereas male nipples are more uniform. This finding goes against a common...
New insights into pruning
Credit: S. Herzmann et al./Development During the development of the human nervous system, billions of nerve cells connect up in...
Novel genetic method improves efficiency of enzyme
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the University of Georgia developed a...
NSF, NASA scientists explore ocean’s ‘twilight zone’ to uncover links between carbon and plankton
Credit: NASA Equipped with advanced underwater robotics and an array of analytical instrumentation, a team of scientists will set sail...
History of side-necked turtle diversification revealed
Credit: Gabriel Ferreira (FFCLRP-USP) A work authored by a group of paleontologists affiliated to University of São Paulo's Biology Department...
Most accurate picture of Zika yet creates potential for therapeutics
(Purdue University) Researchers have created the most accurate picture of Zika to date, finding probable drug-binding pockets on the surface...
Food insecurity has greater impact on disadvantaged children
Credit: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior Philadelphia, June 26, 2018 - In 2016, 12.9 million children lived in food-insecure...
There is more going on in myotonic dystrophy type 1 than just alternative splicing
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is the most common adult-onset muscular dystrophy that affects multiple...
