Fanged friends: World’s most vilified and dangerous animals may be humankind’s best ally
Credit: Julie Larsen Maher/WCS NEW YORK (January 18, 2018) – An international review led by the University of Queensland and ...
Immunotherapy drug nearly eliminates severe acute graft-versus-host disease
Credit: Seattle Children's SEATTLE – Dec. 9, 2017 – Results from a phase 2 clinical trial, presented by Seattle Children's ...
Immunotherapy drug nearly eliminates severe acute graft-versus-host disease
Credit: Seattle Children's SEATTLE – Dec. 9, 2017 – Results from a phase 2 clinical trial, presented by Seattle Children's ...
A new index for the diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Credit: © DZD/IDM Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease has become a global epidemic. There is not only a great interest worldwide ...
In vitro tests of Vype vapor reveal no cell stress, DNA damage or cell transformation
A series of cell-based tests developed to compare the biological impact of cigarette smoke with e-cigarette vapour revealed no activity ...
Why your ancestors would have aced the long jump
Credit: Photo by Douglas Boyer, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. — A 52-million-year-old ankle fossil suggests our prehuman ancestors were high-flying ...
Migration ranges of flying birds depend on body size and flight style
Credit: NIPR The decades-long tracking of flying birds reveals that body size and flight styles determine the scale of birds' ...
World’s smallest tape recorder is built from microbes
Credit: T. Frenzel et al., Science (2017) NEW YORK, NY (Nov. 23, 2017) — Through a few clever molecular hacks, ...
Stem cell therapy improves outcomes in severe heart failure
CHICAGO (April 4, 2016) — A new stem cell therapy significantly improved long-term health outcomes in patients with severe and ...
‘The mountains can drive us to madness’
Credit: Katharina Huefner A mountaineer thinks he is being pursued, starts talking nonsense or changes his route without rhyme or ...
Fatal attractions for disease-carrying mosquitoes
Credit: Photo by Jesse Saroli, ISCA Technologies Mosquitoes, mostly through the transmission of malaria, are the deadliest animals on Earth. ...
Loved one’s death could spur aggressive measures against breast cancer
Credit: Ohio State COLUMBUS, Ohio – A woman's memories of a loved one's experience with cancer could play a significant ...
Popular sungazer lizards under threat from poaching
Credit: Shivan Parusnath/Wits University The Sungazer (Smaug giganteus), a dragon-like lizard species endemic to the Highveld regions of South Africa, ...
Blood pressure medicine may improve conversational skills of individuals with autism
IMAGE: University of Missouri researchers have found that a medication commonly used to treat high blood pressure and irregular heartbeats ...
Taking a closer look at online social networking and depression
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2016 New Rochelle, NY, November 28, 2016–While frequency and duration of online social networking ...
Flexible ‘skin’ can help robots, prosthetics perform everyday tasks by sensing shear force
Credit: UCLA Engineering If a robot is sent to disable a roadside bomb — or delicately handle an egg while ...
How liver cancer develops
Credit: USZ Liver cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related death and represents the fastest rising cancer worldwide. In most ...
AAP counsels pediatricians to focus on clusters of cardiometabolic risk factors to help…
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON — Because obesity affects one in six U.S. children and adolescents, there is a ...
Still changing after all these years
EAST LANSING, Mich. – If Paul Simon were to write a song about the bacteria in Richard Lenski's long-term evolution ...
Study advances potential test to sort out precancerous pancreatic cysts from harmless ones
In a "look-back" analysis of data stored on 130 patients with pancreatic cysts, scientists at Johns Hopkins have used gene-based ...
