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Spinal cord stimulation doesn’t help with back pain, says new review
Spinal cord stimulation, a medical technology suggested to treat people with chronic back pain, does not provide long-term relief and...
WormAtlas expanding beyond C. elegans with support from NIH
URBANA, Ill. – The National Institutes of Health recently pledged $2.6 million towards the Center for C. elegans Anatomy, also...
Plant roots fuel tropical soil animal communities
A research team led by the University of Göttingen has shed new light on the importance of plant roots for...
University Hospitals chairman of Orthopaedics and Browns’ head team physician James Voos, MD, receives NFLPS’ top research award
The NFL Physicians Society (NFLPS) awarded the Arthur C. Rettig Award for Academic Excellence to Dr. James Voos, Head Team Physician...
Rensselaer researcher breaks through the clouds to advance satellite communication
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Moussa N’Gom, assistant professor of physics, applied physics, and astronomy, has devised a method to make communications...
Aging | Isoform-specific AMPK repression affects cognitive function in aged mice
“The study indicates that the aging process might have distinct impact on the signaling pathways associated with the AMPKα isoforms...
USAMRIID scientist Arthur M. Friedlander elected to American Academy of Microbiology
Arthur M. Friedlander, M.D., senior scientist at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, has been elected Fellow...
Enhancing at-home COVID tests with glow-in-the dark materials
Researchers at the University of Houston are using glow-in-the-dark materials to enhance and improve rapid COVID-19 home tests. If you’ve...
UMass Chan investigators identify new pattern recognition system that monitors disease-causing bacteria in C. elegans
A study published in Immunity by physician-scientist Read Pukkila-Worley, MD, and MD/PhD students Nicholas D. Peterson and Samantha Y. Tse describes a...
Puzzle-solving behavior spreads through bumblebee colonies
Bumblebees learn to solve a puzzle by watching more experienced bees, and this behavioral preference then spreads through the colony,...
Cited1 links sex and metabolic hormones to protect against obesity
Sex differences exist in the regulation of energy homeostasis, the organism’s mechanism to keep a stable body weight. Current studies...
Hollow bones that let dinosaurs become giants evolved at least three times independently
Dinosaurs as big as buses or five-story buildings would not be possible if their bones were dense and heavy like...
Drinking, drug use and driving increased in West Virginia during COVID-19, WVU study finds
One West Virginia trauma center saw an uptick in alcohol and drug use by patients treated for motor vehicle collision...
Heart toggles between maintenance and energy-boost mode using ribosomes
Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona have discovered a mechanism involving ribosomes which helps the heart...
Heart tissue heads to space to aid research on aging and impact of long spaceflights
Note: Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers Deok-Ho Kim and Devin Mair will participate in a NASA teleconference for journalists on Tuesday,...
First visible-light induced simultaneous cleavage of C-C and C-N bonds with silver-modified polyoxometalate photocatalyst, researchers report
Cracking carbon bonds is a notoriously difficult problem, but it may hold the key to generating greener, more sustainable chemicals....
New BGI fluorescent RT-PCR Kit approved for COVID-19, Influenza A & B detection in Australia
On March 2, BGI’s Multiplex Real-time Fluorescent RT-PCR Kit for Detecting SARS-CoV-2, Influenza A Virus and Influenza B Virus obtained market access qualification...
Pediatric investigation article details the effect of paternal influences on the health of offspring
Over the past decade, new evidence has spurred the concept of paternal origins of health and disease. Paternal factors encompassing...
Electric vehicle batteries could get big boost with new polymer coating
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a conductive polymer coating – called HOS-PFM – that could...
Researchers identify key protein that promotes DNA repair and prevent cancer
A research team, affiliated with UNIST has unveiled a key factor involved in the DNA damage response (DDR), homologous recombination (HR)...
