NCBS evolutionary biologists win American Society of Naturalists 2018 Presidential Award
Credit: NCBS The American Society of Naturalists (ASN) conferred its prestigious 2018 Presidential Award to evolutionary biologists from the National ...
Pesticides give bees a hard time
Credit: Photo: Ricarda Scheiner In February 2018, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) confirmed that the pesticide group of neonicotinoids ...
Penguins go through the flow
Credit: Photo by © Céline Le Bohec (CNRS / IPEV / CSM) Colonies of breeding king penguins behave much like ...
Researchers identify the cells that trigger flowering
ITHACA, N.Y. - How do plants "know" it is time to flower? A new study uncovers exactly where a key ...
The humble fruit fly continues to boost biomedical discovery
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine For more than 100 years, the humble fruit fly has been used to understand fundamental ...
Study finds brain differences in athletes playing contact vs. noncontact sports
Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A study from researchers at Indiana University in the journal NeuroImage: Clinical has found ...
When kids’ autistic brains can’t calm down
CHICAGO --- One third of children who have autism spectrum disorder also have epilepsy. It's related to a major autism ...
Insilico Taiwan calls Taiwanese AI talents with MolHack starting from April 23
Credit: Insilico Medicine April 5, Taipei, To attract Taiwanese talents for research and development in artificial intelligence (AI) and big ...
Class clowns: Playful boys viewed more negatively than playful girls, study finds
New research shows that playful boys are viewed as rebellious and disruptive by their 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade teachers ...
A vaccine for edible plants? A new plant protection method on the horizon
Credit: 123rf Novel technologies are being sought to replace the traditional pesticides used to protect plants, particularly edible plants such ...
Charting an underexplored landscape: The genitourinary microbiome
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON-(April 5, 2018)-More sensitive cultivation methods and precise 16S rRNA gene sequencing techniques have revealed ...
ASH partners with UNC, a ClinGen grantee, to curate genomic data for blood research
(WASHINGTON, April 5, 2018) -- The American Society of Hematology (ASH) today announced a partnership with the University of North ...
New in the Hastings Center Report, March-April 2018
Progress: Its Glories and Pitfalls Daniel Callahan In his new book, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and ...
Patients with Medicaid have limited access to physical therapy in Massachusetts
BOSTON - Patients with Medicaid in Massachusetts have limited access to reimbursable physical therapy (PT) after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) ...
Nicotine-imbibing teenage rats show an increased risk for drinking alcohol as adults
Credit: John Dani, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Cell Reports PHILADELPHIA - Rats that were dosed with nicotine ...
PDX finder — Free global portal for cancer models
Credit: Spencer Phillips/EMBL-EBI The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) have jointly developed the first open cancer ...
Vitamin D blood test may one day speed bipolar diagnosis in kids
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A blood test may have the potential to speed accurate diagnosis - and proper treatment - of ...
Presentations at #AGS18 address advance care planning, osteoporosis, hypertension and falls
Credit: (C) 2018, American Geriatrics Society Breaking barriers to advance care planning for incarcerated older adults, improving osteoporosis screenings for ...
In Europe, CHMP missed an opportunity for osteoporosis patients at high risk of fracture
Experts from the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) and the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and ...
Carbon taxes can be both fair and effective, study shows
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Putting a price on carbon, in the form of a fee or tax on the use of ...
