Rare coastal martens under high risk of extinction in coming decades
CORVALLIS, Ore. - The coastal marten, a small but fierce forest predator, is at a high risk for extinction in ...
Personal outreach to landowners is vital to conservation program success
Credit: Justin Fritscher Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment research published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE shows ...
Declining bee population to get helping hand with national project
Credit: UCF Funded by the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, Barbara Sharanowski will coordinate a nationwide team of citizen ...
New genomic tool searches wheat’s wild past to improve crops of the future
Credit: Ali A. Mehrabi A new genetic directory launched today will enable researchers and breeders to scan the genomes of ...
Practicing Tai Chi helps improve respiratory function in patients with COPD
Credit: CHEST Glenview, IL, April 4, 2018 - Finding ways to help patients with COPD improve their functional status is ...
Lizards, mice, bats and other vertebrates are important pollinators too
Credit: Petra Wester Bees are not the only animals that carry pollen from flower to flower. Species with backbones, among ...
Are high-risk anticholinergic medicines prescribed too often for older adults?
Anticholinergics are a class of medications that are often prescribed for allergies, lung disease, and urinary incontinence. They also often ...
Study: Get moving to get happier
ANN ARBOR---Physical activity has long been known to reduce depression and anxiety, and is commonly prescribed to prevent or cure ...
An international study is the first large survey on epilepsy
An international research consortium used neuroimaging techniques to analyze the brains of more than 3,800 volunteers in different countries. The ...
Diverse metals mix it up in novel nanoparticles
Credit: Will Kirk/JHU Researchers have learned to combine up to eight different metals in a single tiny, uniformly mixed nanoparticle. ...
New study shows hope for hearing loss
Credit: USC Researchers at USC and Harvard have developed a new approach to repair cells deep inside the ear -- ...
Facilitating coral restoration
Global declines of coral reefs -- particularly in the Caribbean -- have spurred efforts to grow corals in underwater nurseries ...
New ‘NanoZymes’ use light to kill bacteria
Credit: Dr. Chaitali Dekiwadia/ RMIT Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility Researchers from RMIT University have developed a new artificial enzyme that ...
Cocoa bean roasting can preserve both chocolate health benefits, taste
Credit: Pablo Merchán Montes/Unsplash Manipulating the temperature and the length of time under which cocoa beans are roasted can simultaneously ...
Expanding support for Ethiopia’s malaria control efforts
April 4, 2018 -- After nearly a decade of providing critical support to Ethiopia in its ongoing efforts to combat ...
Scoliosis surgery in children with cerebral palsy — quality of life benefits outweigh risks
April 4, 2018 - For children with severe cerebral palsy (CP), surgery for scoliosis (sideways curvature of the spine) significantly ...
UTHealth finds unprecedented psychological distress months after Harvey
Credit: Maricruz Kwon, UTHealth HOUSTON - (April 4, 2018) - Four months after Hurricane Harvey soaked the Houston area and ...
Treating vision loss
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) affects more than 1.75 million individuals in the United States. Because the population is aging, that ...
There’s an allergy epidemic in Africa, and not enough specialists to deal with it
Allergies are on the rise in Africa, but with too few specialists to treat them, and a parallel increase in ...
NEOMED researcher receives $2.5 million NIH grant to study Atherosclerosis
ROOTSTOWN, OHIO - Northeast Ohio Medical University researcher and professor of integrative medical sciences, Yanqiao Zhang, M.D., has received a ...
