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Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 27, 2018 -- Nursing mothers who live with two or ...

Appealing finding suggests why refrigeration dampens banana aromas

(American Chemical Society) Bananas are one of the world's most popular fruits. But how they're stored prior to reaching grocery ...

CU Anschutz researchers find little association between suicide and hypoxia

AURORA, Colo. (June 27, 2018) - Following an extensive analysis of published studies, researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz ...

Reproducibility matters

A plant's health is affected not only by conditions such as water and temperature, but by the microorganisms that live ...

Co-op University of Guelph study finds new measure for stress in overtrained athletes

Credit: Julien Heon With many recreational triathletes and runners ramping up their training in hopes of getting a personal best ...

Eight health professionals selected for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows Program

WASHINGTON -- The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) today named the 2018-2019 class of ...

‘The eyes have it’ — Photoreceptors in marine plankton form a depth gauge to aid survival

Credit: Jürgen Berger The eyes of some marine-dwell The eyes of some marine-dwelling creatures have evolved to act like a ...

Mason philosophy professor explores the ethics of severe brain injury

Credit: Andrew Peterson Family members of patients who have spent years in a vegetative state are often convinced that their ...

Young binge drinkers may have higher heart risks

DALLAS, June 27, 2018 -- Young adults who frequently binge drink were more likely to have certain risk factors for ...

Freedom from fear: dopamine’s role in unlearning fearful associations

Credit: RIKEN National Science Institute Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science have discovered a circuit in the brain ...

Bioanalysis publishes special focus issue on ‘Biomarker Assay Validation’

The Future Science Group (FSG) published journal, Bioanalysis, which is a leading MEDLINE indexed journal for bioanalysts, today announced the ...

Student-run mental health education efforts may improve college mental health climate

Getting college students to engage with peer-run organizations that focus on mental health awareness can improve college students' knowledge about ...

War, lack of democracy and urbanisation contribute to double burden of malnutrition in adolescents in developing countries

Influences include war, lack of democracy, food insecurity, urbanisation & economic growth Effects on health include stunting, obesity and thinness ...

Can older, frail patients benefit from ‘prehabilitation’ before heart surgery?

Credit: Canadian Journal of Cardiology Philadelphia, June 27, 2018 - High risk, frail heart patients might derive benefits from "prehabilitation," ...

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