Mayo Clinic study: 20% of patients are prescribed opioids after cardiac device implantation surgery
This large US study found that 1 in 5 patients was prescribed opioids after having a pacemaker or similar device ...
Toad disguises itself as deadly viper to avoid attack — world-first study reports
Decades of fieldwork uncover hissing and strike-warning impersonations by toadCredit: Photograph by Colin Tilbury. The first study of a toad ...
Data mining applied to scholarly publications to finally reveal Earth’s biodiversity
Credit: P Kishor (Plazi) At a time when a million species are at risk of extinction, according to a recent ...
All is FAIR in biodiversity research: Mandatory data audit at Pensoft’s journals
A thorough data auditing workflow ensures that datasets described in data papers across Pensoft's OA journal portfolio are fit-to-use prior ...
$1.2 million in grants to fund search for diabetes cure
Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York BINGHAMTON, NY - A biomedical engineering professor at Binghamton University, State University ...
Plant-based foods and Mediterranean diet associated with healthy gut microbiome
Credit: UEG (Barcelona, October 21, 2019) A study presented at UEG Week 2019 has shown that specific foods could provide ...
Autism spectrum disorder risk linked to insufficient placental steroid
Single ALLO injection during pregnancy was enough to avert both the cerebellar abnormalities and the aberrant social behaviors in experimental ...
Salk scientists awarded $14.3 million to map circuitry for movement
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA, CA--(October 18, 2019) A team of Salk scientists led by Professor Martyn Goulding has been ...
New research center aims to make electronics more secure
Six American universities will work with government and industry to thwart efforts by hackers, counterfeiters and terrorists to exploit security ...
NASA-NOAA satellite finds overshooting tops, gravity waves in Tropical Storm Nestor
Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/UWM-CIMSS, William Straka III NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided night-time and infrared views of developing Tropical Storm Nestor ...
Why the flu is more deadly in those with diabetes
Researchers outlined immune dysfunction in mice that leads to more severe respiratory infections in those with diabetesCredit: University of Maryland ...
NASA-NOAA satellite finds Tropical Storm Neoguri consolidating
Credit: Credit: NASA /NRL NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center with a visible image ...
Novel nanoprobes show promise for optical monitoring of neural activity
New approach for studying neural circuits offers advantages over both microelectrodes and fluorescence-based optical techniques that require genetic modificationsCredit: Carolyn ...
It’s electric: WVU breaks new ground in developing transportable, carbon-neutral energy source
Credit: Paige Nesbit/West Virginia University Electricity is something we rarely think about -- we expect it to be there, flowing ...
Atmospheric pressure impacts greenhouse gas emissions from leaky oil and gas wells
Credit: Aaron Cahill Fluctuations in atmospheric pressure can heavily influence how much natural gas leaks from wells below the ground ...
Creatine powers T cells’ fight against cancer
Credit: Broad Stem Cell Research Center Creatine, the organic acid that is popularly taken as a supplement by athletes and ...
Development and analytical validation of a next-generation sequencing based microsatellite instabili
The assay has a clinically relevant 5-day turnaround time and can be conducted on as little as 20 ng genomic ...
NASA-NOAA satellite observes development of Tropical Storm Octave
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided infrared data that showed the development of Tropical Storm Octave in the ...
NIH funds new All of Us Research Program genome center to test advanced sequencing tools
HudsonAlpha awarded $7 million to expand national health dataset with uncharted genetic variantsCredit: Photo courtesy of the HudsonAlpha Institute for ...
Deep learning method that transforms shapes to be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia
Turning chairs into tablesCredit: ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 Turning a chair into a table, or vice versa, might sound like ...
