Where climate change is most likely to induce food violence
COLUMBUS, Ohio - While climate change is expected to lead to more violence related to food scarcity, new research suggests ...
Male sexual behavior linked to elevated male sex hormone receptors in muscles of sex-changing fish
Credit: Kory Gozjack ATLANTA--Sex-changing fish exhibit differences in androgen receptor (AR) expression in muscles that are highly sensitive to androgens ...
Study finds delayed food introduction increases risk of sensitization
Hamilton, ON, June 8, 2017 -- Delaying the introduction of potentially allergenic foods until after a baby's first year may ...
Self-learning robot hands
Credit: Photo: Bielefeld University The system was developed as part of the large-scale research project Famula at Bielefeld University's Cluster ...
Why the marijuana and tobacco policy camps are on very different paths
Credit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. - The regulatory approaches to marijuana and tobacco in the United States are on ...
Study reveals sweetened drinks during pregnancy puts infants at higher risk for obesity
A recent Danish study of children born to women with gestational diabetes, found that maternal daily consumption of artificially-sweetened beverages ...
IDEAS study spurs related research to impact dementia care
Washington, DC and Chicago, June 8, 2017 -- The milestone Imaging Dementia - Evidence for Amyloid Scanning (IDEAS) Study is ...
Revolutionary U of A biopsy-reading invention reaches the masses
Credit: University of Alberta A groundbreaking University of Alberta invention that will impact transplant patients' outcomes--and possibly cancer outcomes in ...
Culprit hidden in plain sight in Alzheimer disease development
Credit: Dr. Lilian Calderone Missoula, MT, June 8, 2017 -- A new study by researchers at the University of Montana, ...
Researchers identify immune component up-regulated in brain after viral infection
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 6, 2017--A new study of infection by a virus that ...
Carotid artery gives away human biological age
Credit: MIPT's Press office Russian researchers have provided a new method of determining human biological age. The group hails from ...
Cell cultures go for the gold
Credit: BioServe A wide variety of research relies on growing cells in culture on Earth, but handling these cells is ...
Report looks at liver cancer, fastest-growing cause of cancer deaths in US
A new report provides an overview of incidence, mortality, and survival rates and trends for liver cancer, a cancer for ...
New leukemia treatment outperforms standard chemotherapies
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) are working on a new treatment for an aggressive type of leukemia that ...
Cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS interventions in South Africa
An international African collaboration has turned to statistical analysis to determine the cost effectiveness of major HIV/AIDS interventions in South ...
The role of the protein Rrm3 in the repair of breaks in DNA during replication
Credit: Cabimer A research group from the University of Seville has revealed the role that the protein Rrm3 plays in ...
Inherited, rare skin disease informs treatment of common hair disorders, Penn study finds
Credit: Michael Passanante and Mingang Xu, PhD PHILADELPHIA - It is almost axiomatic in medicine that the study of rare ...
Wayne State receives $3.05 million NIH award to improve diabetes care in youth
DETROIT - A Wayne State University research team will embark on a five-year, multicenter trial focused on helping parents engage ...
New cellular imaging paves way for cancer treatment
Researchers at the Universities of York and Leiden have pioneered a technique which uses florescent imaging to track the actions ...
From the somatic cell to the germ cell
Credit: Photo: Thomas Kunz An international scientific consortium including the Freiburg plant biologist Prof. Dr. Thomas Laux has discovered a ...
