European-wide study to examine the prevalence of heart disease in apes
Wild gorillas and chimpanzees are on the brink of extinction threatened primarily by habitat loss and poaching. At the same ...
Dino-killing asteroid’s impact on bird evolution
Credit: Cornell Lab of Ornithology ITHACA, N.Y. – Human activities could change the pace of evolution, similar to what occurred ...
Leading medical societies, health systems collaborate to improve…
Shelley Lyford, president and CEO of the Gary and Mary West Health Institute Four national medical societies and nine leading ...
Queen’s researchers make breakthrough discovery in fight against bowel cancer
Credit: Queen's University Belfast New research led by Queen's University Belfast has discovered how a genomic approach to understanding bowel ...
‘Watchdog’ for greenhouse gas emissions
The signatory countries of the Kyoto Protocol and the new Paris Agreement have committed to reduce global warming. The countries ...
Researchers find key genetic driver for rare type of triple-negative…
Credit: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Michigan — For more than a decade, Celina Kleer, M.D., has been ...
Scientists discover fossil of dinosaur ancestor with surprising croc-like appearance
Credit: Gabriel Lio Scientists have long wondered what the earliest dinosaur relatives looked like. Most assumed they would resemble miniature ...
The first Iberian lynx infected by the pseudorabies virus
Credit: Ex-situ conservation program of the Iberian lynx On 1 December 2015, Matojo, a male Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) cub, ...
Gonorrhoea strains across Europe becoming more susceptible to main…
Credit: ECDC According to test results from the annual European Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Programme (Euro-GASP), resistance levels to the main ...
Weak grip a strong predictor of metabolic disease and disability in…
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. – A simple test to determine a person's grip strength may be a predictor ...
Parkinson’s disease and prion diseases: Discovery of a molecular…
Credit: Denis Scaini Parkinson's disease and prion diseases are very different from each other as regards both origins and course. ...
Is junk food to blame?
Soda, candy, and fast food are often painted as the prime culprits in the national discussion of obesity in the ...
No blue light, please, I’m tired — light color determines sleepiness versus…
Light affects sleep. A study in mice published in Open Access journal PLOS Biology shows that the actual color of ...
Toward a better definition for acute kidney injury in newborns
Credit: Children's National Health System Each year, thousands of infants in the United States end up in neonatal intensive care ...
New ranger patrol method shows major improvements in detection
A team of scientists from WCS, University of York, and Uganda Wildlife Authority have developed a new method of detecting ...
Weight-loss technologies train the brain to resist temptation
Credit: Drexel's Laboratory for Innovations in Health-Related Behavior Change Can a computer game train your brain to resist sweets? That's ...
A genetic mutation in the evolution helps to explain the origin of some human organs
Credit: Universitat de Barcelona. A neutral genetic mutation–a fluke in the evolutionary process that had no apparent biological purpose–that appeared ...
Study may explain why people with type O blood more likely to die of…
People with blood type O often get more severely ill from cholera than people of other blood types. New research ...
Pet exposure may reduce allergy and obesity
Credit: University of Alberta If you need a reason to become a dog lover, how about their ability to help ...
Pilot study shows that neurofeedback may help treatment-resistant depression
A small pilot study has indicated that neurofeedback – where patients concentrate on modifying their own brainwave patterns – has ...
