HIPPO’s molecular balancing act helps nerves not short circuit
Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Scientists write in Nature Communications it may be possible to therapeutically fine tune a constantly ...
Providers who prescribe PrEP don’t see most patients increasing risky sexual behavior
WASHINGTON (April 26, 2017)--A new study examining medical provider attitudes toward prescribing PrEP to prevent HIV found that those who ...
‘Whispering’ keeps humpbacks safe from killer whales, study finds
(Aarhus University) Newborn humpback whales 'whisper' to their mothers to avoid being overheard by killer whales, researchers have discovered. The ...
Annual flu jab may pose greater risk for lung cancer patients under immunotherapy
Geneva, Switzerland, April 26, 2017 - Lung cancer patients treated with PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors may be at increased risk of ...
USDA announces $4.8 million available to support food safety outreach program
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 25, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today ...
‘Unicorn’ shipworm could reveal clues about human medicine and bacterial infections
Credit: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Northeastern professor Daniel Distel and his colleagues have discovered a dark slithering creature four feet long ...
When artificial intelligence evaluates chess champions
Credit: © Jean-Marc Alliot - IRIT (CNRS/INP Toulouse/Université Toulouse Paul Sabatier/Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès/Université Toulouse Capitole). The ELO system, which ...
Rosetta online server that includes everyone
Credit: Gray Lab Our bodies are made of biomolecules like proteins, nucleic acids, fats and sugars. These biomolecules are folded ...
More small, clean-energy businesses will tap into Sandia technical expertise
Credit: (Graphic courtesy of the Department of Energy) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Department of Energy has chosen five more small, ...
Ancient stress response provides clues to cancer resistance
Credit: Jason Drees for the Biodesign Institute Cancer is often able to craftily outwit the best techniques modern medicine has ...
‘Diet’ products can make you fat, study shows
Credit: Peter Frey/UGA Athens, Ga. - High-fat foods are often the primary target when fighting obesity, but sugar-laden "diet" foods ...
UTA student receives NSF grant for research into ecological drivers of eye, brain size
Credit: UTA Shannon Beston, a third-year Ph.D. student in biology at the University of Texas at Arlington, was selected to ...
Thought Antarctica’s biodiversity was doing well? Think again
Twenty-three experts involved in the study "Antarctica and the strategic plan for biodiversity," recently published in PLoS Biology, debunked the ...
Managing disease spread through accessible modeling
Credit: LANL LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April 24, 2017-- A new computer modeling study from Los Alamos National Laboratory is aimed ...
NASA examines newly formed Tropical Depression 3W in 3-D
Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce Tropical Depression 03W formed in the Pacific Ocean west of Guam on April ...
Prostate cancer patients would pay $2,000 for more accurate biopsies, Loyola study finds
MAYWOOD, IL - Prostate cancer patients are willing to pay up to $2,000 of their own money for a new ...
What’s coming next? Scientists identify how the brain predicts speech
Credit: Dr Y. Kikuchi et al. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2000219 An international collaboration of neuroscientists has shed light on how the brain helps ...
Gut bacteria tell the brain what animals should eat
Credit: Gil Costa Neuroscientists have, for the first time, shown that gut bacteria "speak" to the brain to control food ...
India’s outsized coal plans would wipe out Paris climate goals
Credit: CoalSwarm.org Irvine, Calif., April 25, 2017 - India will not be able to meet its Paris climate agreement commitments ...
New method to ensure reproducibility in computational experiments
Credit: CRG Research reproducibility is crucial to move forward in science. Unfortunately, and according to recent studies and surveys*, the ...
