Vaquita porpoise rescued as part of VaquitaCPR conservation project, then released
Credit: VaquitaCPR San Felipe, Baja California - Scientists with the VaquitaCPR conservation project and Mexico's Secretary of the Environment Rafael...
Researchers quantify breast cancer risk based on rare variants and background risk
Credit: Dr. Li BETHESDA, MD - Rare variants combined with background genetic risk factors may account for many unexplained cases...
The New York Stem Cell Foundation Annual Conference
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Youth Enjoy Science (YES) grant brings diversity to cancer research
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Risk for developing HPV-related throat cancer low
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New IOF Compendium documents osteoporosis, its management and global burden
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Life goes on for marine ecosystems after cataclysmic mass extinction
Credit: Arc Centre of Excellence Coral Reef Studies One of the largest global mass extinctions did not fundamentally change marine...
Cool roofs have water saving benefits too
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Carbon coating gives biochar its garden-greening power
Credit: Nikolas Hagemann/University of Tübingen For more than 100 years, biochar, a carbon-rich, charcoal-like substance made from oxygen-deprived plant or...
‘Selfish brain’ wins out when competing with muscle power, study finds
Credit: Danny Longman Human brains are expensive - metabolically speaking. It takes lot of energy to run our sophisticated grey...
Andy Tay Kah Ping honored with inaugural MRS Bulletin Postdoctoral Publication Prize
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Chromosomes may be knotted
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The Graduate Center and Princeton University explore the interface between physics and biology
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Fewer stillbirths at East African hospital following introduction of childbirth guidelines
Worldwide, more than three million children die each year on the day they are born - either during birth or...
How the smallest bacterial pathogens outwit host immune defences by stealth mechanisms
Credit: Institute of Microbiology/Vetmeduni Vienna Mycoplasmas are very simple bacteria. They have a minimalist genome and no protective cell wall....
Building new moss factories
For millions of years, plants have been producing highly complex molecules out of simple chemical building blocks, sustainably and cheaply....
RANKL expressed by osteocytes has an important role in orthodontic tooth movement
Tokyo Medical and Dental University(TMDU) research team demonstrated that osteocytes have a crucial role in orthodontic tooth movement as the...
How obesity promotes breast cancer
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New function in gene-regulatory protein discovered
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Prozac in ocean water a possible threat to sea life, PSU study finds
(Portland, Ore.) October 17, 2017 - Oregon shore crabs exhibit risky behavior when they're exposed to the antidepressant Prozac, making...
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