A star is born: Lesser-known brain cell takes center stage
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(June 6, 2017) Neurons have long enjoyed the spotlight in neuroscience--and for good reason: they are...
Drinking diet beverages during pregnancy linked to child obesity, NIH study suggests
Children born to women who had gestational diabetes and drank at least one artificially sweetened beverage per day during pregnancy...
New research provides practical cooking tips for your red wine sauce
Credit: Cecilie Varming Jacobsen Postdoc at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen Pia Snitkjaer has carried...
TSRI anti-heroin vaccine found effective in non-human primates
Credit: Faith Hark / The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, CA - June 6, 2017 - A vaccine developed at...
Researchers identify a key controller of biological machinery in cell’s ‘antenna’
Credit: Peter Barta / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital St. Jude Children's Research Hospital molecular biologists have identified an enzyme...
El Niño and global warming combine to cause record-breaking heat in Southeast Asia
(University of Texas at Austin) Scientists at The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) have found that a devastating...
Ambiguous pledges leave large uncertainty under Paris climate agreement
Under the pledges made by countries under the Paris Agreement on climate change, greenhouse gas emissions could range from 47...
New way to detect Palmer amaranth in contaminated seedlots
Credit: Lauren D. Quinn URBANA, Ill. - Last summer, farmers in the Midwest got an unwelcome surprise after planting native...
Meals on the go: The physics of whales’ eating habits
Credit: Saint Louis University In a recent paper published in PLOS One, Saint Louis University professor of physics Jean Potvin,...
A 12-hour biological clock coordinates essential bodily functions
Some bodily activities, sleeping, for instance, mostly occur once every 24 hours; they follow a circadian rhythm. Other bodily functions,...
Dinosaur Provincial Park, the Canadian Rockies, and the fossils of the Burgess Shale
Credit: Bryon Veilleux. Boulder, Colo., USA: A new field guide in conjunction with GSA's Rocky Mountain Section meeting offers five...
Trauma centers with American College of Surgeons verification have fewer complications
CHICAGO (June 6, 2017): Major complications from injury--and consequently a longer hospital stay--are more likely for pediatric and elderly patients...
Major research initiative explores how our bones and muscles age, new ways to block their decline
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (June 6, 2017) - With age, the form and function of our bones and muscles...
Take a coffee or tea break to protect your liver
Credit: L. Alferink and S. Darwish Murad Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 6, 2017 - Chronic liver diseases rank as the...
Can you hear me now?
Credit: Johns Hopkins University When trying to be heard over noise, humans and animals raise their voices. It's a split-second...
A method to improve in vitro tests
Before new nanoparticles or other nanomedicines can be injected into the human body, a whole series of tests must be...
New low-cost material for lighting and diagnostics produces white light imitating sunlight
Researchers at the University of Turku, Finland, have developed a synthetic material based on the natural hackmanite mineral which produces...
Are friends better for us than family?
Credit: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. - The power of friendship gets stronger with age and may even be...
Flu shot less effective for obese adults
Although influenza vaccines are currently the best forms of protection to safeguard people against getting the flu, they are not...
Looking to the future of organs-on-chip
A new special issue from Future Science OA examines novel organ-on-a-chip research and provides expert insight into the future of...
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