Processed food: What Big Food doesn’t want you to know and its critics won’t tell you
Every food decision we make involves a trade-off of some kind. A healthy option might not be the most environmentally-friendly; ...
Federal preemption of taxes on state and local sugar-sweetened beverages is not warranted
Credit: (None required.) NEW YORK and BOSTON (Aug. 29, 2017)--Federal, state, and local governments each have a role to play ...
NTU scientists use brewery waste to grow yeast needed for beer making
Credit: NTU Singapore Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have invented a new process to turn spent brewery ...
Tears in tiny bone cells called osteocytes appear an important step to better bones
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Aug. 29, 2017) - The force gravity and physical activity put ...
Obese people lack cells with satiety hormones
Credit: University of Basel Individuals with severe overweight have an inhibited sense of satiation - they release fewer satiety hormones ...
MouseAge.Org: Artificial intelligence for photographic biomarkers in mice
Credit: Insilico Medicine,Inc. Tuesday, 29th of August, 2017, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, Inc, a Baltimore-based next-generation artificial intelligence company, ...
Woolly rhino neck ribs provide clues about their decline and eventual extinction
Credit: Jacques van Alphen Researchers from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden examined woolly rhino and modern rhino neck vertebrae ...
An alternative to wolf control to save endangered caribou
Credit: Robert Serrouya What happens when invasive and native species are eaten by the same predator? If the invasive species ...
International study shows moderate consumption of fats and carbohydrates best for health
Credit: Hamilton Health Sciences Hamilton, Ont. (August 29, 2017) - Research with more than 135,000 people across five continents has ...
New findings on the past and future of sea ice cover in the Arctic
Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Maciej Telesinski Temperatures in the Arctic are currently climbing two to three times faster than the global ...
New treatment options for type 2 diabetes
Credit: Dr Resia Pretorius, Stellenbosch University Bacteria may be responsible for more than we suspect. Especially when it comes to ...
Gunnerus Prize in Sustainability awarded to Carl Folke
Credit: M. Axelsson/Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre Professor Carl Folke has been awarded the 2017 Gunnerus Award in Sustainability Science ...
New osteoporosis treatment uses traditional Chinese herb to prevent bone loss
An herb widely used in traditional Chinese medicine might hold the key to a new osteoporosis therapy that could prevent ...
Boosting immune cell memory to improve vaccines and cancer immunotherapy
Credit: UC San Diego Health Vaccines and cancer immunotherapies do essentially the same thing: They boost a person's immune system, ...
Mass. General team reports first response of central nervous system tumor to CAR T-cells
In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team reports a remarkable ...
New app uses smartphone selfies to screen for pancreatic cancer
Credit: Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering Pancreatic cancer has one of the worst prognoses -- with ...
Concurrent treatment with OX40- and PD1-targeted cancer immunotherapies may be detrimental
Bottom Line: Concurrent administration of the T-cell stimulating anti-OX40 antibody and the immune checkpoint inhibitor anti-PD1 antibody attenuated the effect ...
Portland State research in ancient forests show link between climate change and wildfires
(Portland, Ore.) August 28, 2017 - Portland State researchers studying centuries-old trees in South America have found a tight correlation ...
New member of NAS reveals how animals select good microbes, reject harmful ones
Credit: Kent Nishimura Margaret McFall-Ngai, professor and director of the Pacific Biosciences Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science ...
New technique to aid IVF embryo selection
Credit: The IVF image is a freely usable public domain image with no copyright or acknowledgment required. Researchers at the ...
