Huntsman Cancer Institute research shows melanoma rates in Utah compared to
Credit: Huntsman Cancer Institute SALT LAKE CITY - A letter published today by Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University ...
Scientists discover ‘jumping’ genes that can protect against blood cancers
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - April 8, 2021 - New research has uncovered a surprising role for so-called ...
Violence and its effects on healthcare service, access, and strategies
Credit: Laura Vargas PHILADELPHIA (April 8, 2021) - Many factors, including need, affect healthcare use. Strategies geared to enhancing the ...
Bioengineer wins NIH grant to attack cystic fibrosis
Xue Sherry Gao developing base editors to fix multitude of single mutations that cause diseaseCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - ...
Purdue scientists use malaria expertise to track COVID-19 variants
Credit: Purdue University photo/Rebecca McElhoe WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Scientists have been using genetics to track diseases for decades. Now, ...
Rochester Institute of Technology engineering leaders honored as 2021 IISE Fellows
Nabil Nasr and Iris Rivero recognized for significant contributions in industrial engineeringCredit: RIT The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers ...
How to tame a restless genome
Credit: Ipsaro/Joshua-Tor lab, CSHL/2021 Short pieces of DNA--jumping genes--can bounce from one place to another in our genomes. When too ...
Mountain growth influences greenhouse effect
Weathering of rocks can bind or release carbon dioxide -- in active mountain ranges, carbon-dioxide release strongly dominatesCredit: Kristen Cook ...
‘Pain is always a perception’: Physical therapy can help prevent, treat opioid use disorder
Credit: Aira Burkhart/West Virginia University When you think of ways to treat opioid use disorder, you might think methadone clinics ...
Lifetime monitoring after infant cardiac surgery may reduce adult hypertension risk
Credit: Public Domain via Wikipedia Commons as released by Mariana Ruiz Villarreal, LadyofHats In a medical records study covering thousands ...
Argonne National Laboratory a partner in first accelerator program dedicated to quantum
Credit: University of Chicago The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is a founding partner of Duality, the ...
Regional habitat differences identified for threatened piping plovers on Atlantic coast
Findings can help enhance shorebird species' protection, recoveryCredit: Credit: Susan Haig, USGS Piping plovers, charismatic shorebirds that nest and feed ...
UBCO researchers find a new use for waste
Pulp mill waste hits the road instead of the landfillCredit: UBCO Waste materials from the pulp and paper industry have ...
NIH experts call for accelerated research to address concurrent HIV and COVID-19 pandemics
Credit: NIAID WHAT: The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting people with or at risk for HIV both indirectly, by interfering with ...
Team cracks eggs for science
How birds defend against brood parasitesCredit: Photo by Jeffrey P. Hoover CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Avian brood parasites lay their eggs ...
Solar and wind power could mitigate conflict in northeast Africa
Research from KU Leuven and VUB on sensitive geopolitical conflict around Ethiopian mega-damCredit: Google A new study shows that several ...
Autism gene study finds widespread impact to brain’s growth signaling network
Mutations to Dyrk1a gene lead to brain undergrowth; an existing drug rescues the condition in newborn miceCredit: Damon Page Lab, ...
Filling the gaps
New image inpainting technique accurately predicts missing image regionsCredit: Hiya Roy et al. Image inpainting is a computer vision technique ...
Heart failure and stroke rising in men under 40
Credit: Photo: Cecilia Hedstrom Heart failure and stroke are unusual diagnoses among younger people. But they are now clearly on ...
More than 5,000 tons of extraterrestrial dust fall to Earth each year
Credit: © Cécile Engrand/Jean Duprat Every year, our planet encounters dust from comets and asteroids. These interplanetary dust particles pass ...
