UTHealth study finds that male virgins can still acquire HPV
Credit: UTHealth HOUSTON – (Dec. 13, 2017) – Men who have never engaged in sexual intercourse are still at risk ...
Tattoos mark the spot — for surgery — then disappear
Credit: Jin-sil Choi/ Hsian-Rong Tseng Tattoos aren't just for body art. They can have medical applications, too. Doctors are using ...
Street Norco looks like the real thing but really, really isn’t
Credit: American College of Emergency Physicians. WASHINGTON –A paper published online yesterday in Annals of Emergency Medicine warns that a ...
MicroRNAs help to predict disease progression in brain tumors
(Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health) Scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Ludwig Maximilians ...
Life in the fast lane: How plants avoid traffic jams
Traffic jams are the curse of the commute, the scourge of the school run and the bane of Bank Holidays. ...
How ticks get a proper foothold
Credit: Copyright: Dagmar Voigt Ticks spend more than 90 percent of their up to three-year-long life starving and clambering around ...
Two early career researchers honored with Alan T. Waterman Award
Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology (left); Denise Applewhite, Princeton University (right) The National Science Foundation (NSF) today recognized Baratunde "Bara" ...
Coral may hold cancer insights
Credit: US Department of Defense More than 70 years after the U.S. tested atomic bombs on a ring of sand ...
Depressed children respond differently to rewards than other kids
Credit: Robert Boston For many children, December often is linked to presents and excitement, but when a young child doesn't ...
Cranky crabs in broken shells often have the upper claw in fights
Credit: Luis Miguel Burciaga Sheer aggression rather than pure muscle strength often gives hermit crabs living in broken shells the ...
Preventing Alzheimer’s in African-Americans by strengthening the brain
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Mark Gluck A major effort is underway to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease and other ...
Mystery of memory cells answered through mouse study
Credit: MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (March 13, 2017) — When an infection attacks the body for the first time, T ...
Funding of millions for TU Graz-lead projects from university owned funds
Credit: © TU Graz Since 2015, TU Graz has awarded special funding for multidisciplinary lead projects. By supporting such basic ...
How a moderate form of evolutionary psychology can clarify the study of decision-making
Credit: MIT Press LAWRENCE — In recent decades the field of evolutionary psychology has — though not without controversy — ...
Climate change projected to significantly increase harmful algal blooms in US freshwaters
Credit: Hans W. Paerl, Ph.D a study co-author/University of North Carolina MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE (August 15, 2017) – Harmful algal blooms known ...
Bees are more productive in the city than in surrounding regions
Credit: UFZ / André Künzelmann Bees pollinate plants more frequently in the city than in the country even though they ...
How a moderate form of evolutionary psychology can clarify the study of decision-making
Credit: MIT Press LAWRENCE — In recent decades the field of evolutionary psychology has — though not without controversy — ...
Novel classification can lead to new ways to diagnose and treat cancer
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A novel approach to studying cancer has enabled researchers to group about 10,000 human cancers ...
New method creates endless supply of kidney precursor cells
LA JOLLA–Salk Institute scientists have discovered the holy grail of endless youthfulness–at least when it comes to one type of ...
New information about bacterial enzymes to help scientists develop…
Scientists studying the biosynthesis and production of microbial natural products now have a greater insight into the process thanks to ...
