UTA biologist wins NSF CAREER grant to study effects of predators on evolution of Daphnia
Credit: UTA A biologist at The University of Texas at Arlington who studies ecology and evolutionary biology is the recipient ...
A common underlying genetic basis for social behavior in dogs and humans
Dogs' ability to communicate and interact with humans is one the most astonishing differences between them and their wild cousins, ...
Penn researchers engineer macrophages to engulf cancer cells in solid tumors
Credit: Discher Lab. One reason cancer is so difficult to treat is that it avoids detection by the body. Agents ...
Skin vaccination with microneedle patch, influenza fusion protein improves efficacy of flu vaccines
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA -- A boosting skin vaccination with a biodegradable microneedle patch and protein constructed from sequences ...
Despite lack of efficacy data, surprising consensus in pediatric anti-epilepsy med scripts
Credit: Children's National Health System The number of available anti-seizure medications has exploded in the past two decades, going from ...
CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health awarded $2.4 M NIH grant
The National Institutes for Health (NIH) has awarded Dr. Christian Grov and his colleagues $2.4 Million to launch a 2-year ...
CU Boulder discovery could lead to better results for patients undergoing radiation
July 19, 2017 - More than half of cancer patients undergo radiotherapy, in which high doses of radiation are aimed ...
Why are dogs such doting companions? It’s in their genes
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers have identified a genetic difference in domesticated dogs and wolves that could explain the canines' contrasting ...
Cornell researchers uncover fresh role for nitric oxide
"We've found a hole in the nitrogen cycle pipeline. As there is nitrous oxide escaping out of the soil into ...
Damming and lost connectivity for fish in northeastern ecosystems
Anadromous forage fish, which spawn in freshwater but spend much of their lives at sea, are an important food source ...
Gu and Paranthaman named ORNL Corporate Fellows
Credit: ORNL OAK RIDGE, Tenn., July 19, 2017 -- Researchers Baohua Gu and Parans Paranthaman have been named Corporate Fellows ...
Lunatic fringe gene plays key role in the renewable brain
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine The discovery that the brain can generate new cells - about 700 new neurons each ...
New treatment guidelines for pediatric acute onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS/PANDAS)
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 19, 2017 -- A panel of leading clinicians and researchers ...
GSA announces press events lineup for World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics in San Francisco
The program of the upcoming World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics will feature four exclusive sessions designed to aid reporters ...
Goodbye HERA, hello sleep
Credit: Credit: NASA After 45 days in NASA's Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA), the four-man crew can hardly hold their ...
Aging power plants provide Trump administration with risks and opportunities
When it comes to the current plans to retire U.S. power plants, Carnegie Mellon University researchers believe we are "running ...
Supramolecular materials with a time switch
Credit: Boekhoven Lab / TUM Materials that assemble themselves and then simply disappear at the end of their lifetime are ...
Shark scavenging helps reveal clues about human remains
Credit: Florida Museum/George Burgess GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Shark feeding habits are helping scientists identify marks on human bones found in ...
Individual insight into brain networks
Harvard scientists have gained new insights into how the brain networks important for thought and remembering are organized in individual ...
Kent State researcher examines vaccine rejection and hesitancy, calls to promote vaccination
Credit: Kent State University The center of a public health debate is whether parents should have their children vaccinated. Tara ...
