Diabetes awareness ‘major concern’ for UK Asians
South Asians living in the UK feel cut off and excluded from education or self-help programmes, preventing them from managing ...
Street dogs to benefit from app that keeps canine health on track
Improved care for street dogs is the goal of a new smartphone app devised by an international team of animal ...
Making headway in infant leukemia research
Around 600 children under the age of 15 are diagnosed with leukaemia each year in Germany. The effects are especially ...
US power sector carbon emissions intensity drops to lowest on record
PITTSBURGH -- (April 4, 2018) Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) today announced the release of ...
Avoid south-facing birdhouses — for the nestlings’ sake
Ten-day-old baby birds are able to maintain their regular body temperature despite nest box temperatures of 50C° or above. Researchers ...
Anemia: When cells fail to produce enough protein factories
Every day, stem cells in our bone marrow produce billions of new red blood cells. Any disruption in this process ...
Newton funding to bolster China’s long-term growth and global economy with agri-tech innovation
Credit: EI With the largest population in the world, China feeds nearly 1.4 billion people - covering 22% of the ...
How live vaccines enhance the body’s immune response
Credit: Freie Universitaet Berlin, Kristina Dietert Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin's university hospital, have discovered a new mechanism ...
How does HIV escape cellular booby traps?
Credit: Kyoto University / Sato Lab Human immunodeficiency virus -- HIV -- is believed to have evolved from a simian ...
Research shows first land plants were parasitized by microbes
Credit: Philip Carella By studying liverworts - which diverged from other land plants early in the history of plant evolution ...
Relaxation response may reduce blood pressure by altering expression of a set of genes
Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON - High blood pressure -- or hypertension -- is a major risk factor ...
Mutation of worm gene, swip-10, triggers age-dependent death of dopamine neurons
Credit: Florida Atlantic University Dopamine, a signaling chemical in the brain, has the lofty job of controlling emotions, moods, movements ...
Updated ASTRO guideline for palliative lung RT recommends concurrent chemo for some stage III pts
ARLINGTON, Va., April 4, 2018 - The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) today issued an update to its clinical ...
Pulling valuable metals from e-waste makes financial sense
Electronic waste -- including discarded televisions, computers and mobile phones -- is one of the fastest-growing waste categories worldwide. For ...
Who’s smarter in the classroom — men or women?
Credit: Sandra Leander/ASU If you believe it, you can achieve it. You've probably heard this motivational phrase more than once. ...
Vegetables may help protect elderly women from hardening of neck arteries
DALLAS, April 4, 2018 -- Elderly Australian women who ate more vegetables showed less carotid artery wall thickness, according to ...
Biochemical Society announces 2019 award recipients
March 28, 2018, London, UK - The Biochemical Society has announced the winners of the Society's annual awards today. The ...
Obesity impacts liver health in kids as young as 8 years old
New York, NY --A new study published today in the Journal of Pediatrics is the first to show that weight ...
Childhood exposure to flame retardant chemicals declines following phase-out
Exposure to flame retardants once widely used in consumer products has been falling, according to a new study by researchers ...
Smart ink adds new dimensions to 3-D printing
Credit: Chenfeng Ke HANOVER, N.H. - April 4, 2018- Researchers at Dartmouth College have developed a smart ink that turns ...
