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Dramatic housing transformation in sub-Saharan Africa revealed for first time
Improved housing estimated to have doubled between 2000 and 2015 but nearly 50 percent of the urban population still living...
Fulvestrant plus anastrozole extends lives of women with advanced HR+ breast cancer
Credit: UC Irvine Women with metastatic hormone receptor-positive breast cancer live longer when they receive a combination of two anti-estrogen...
Gene transfer improves diabetes-linked heart ailment
Credit: Kevin Walsh Researchers with the VA San Diego Healthcare System and the University of California San Diego have shown...
Sepsis study to focus on genes in quest for treatments
Scientists say the study could help identify those most vulnerable to sepsis, which kills more than 50,000 people in the...
Georgia State to establish prevention research center focused on migrant health
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded Georgia State University a five-year, $3.75 million grant to establish...
New cryptic bird species discovered
Credit: Subir Shakya, LSU In the lush, lowland rainforests on the island of Borneo lives a rather common, drab brown...
Adhesive formed from bee spit and flower oil could form basis of new glues
Credit: Evan Atkinson Honey bees spend hours each day collecting pollen and packing it into tidy bundles attached to their...
Birds bug out over coffee
Research on coffee farm habitats can help both fowl and farmersCredit: University of Delaware/ Doug Tallamy and Desirée Narango Coffee...
RIT faculty earns award to study how to help more students become scientists, engineers
Study will assess how experiential learning improves interest, retention and career preparation A Rochester Institute of Technology professor has earned...
Study shows arctic warming contributes to drought
When the Arctic warmed after the ice age 10,000 years ago, it created perfect conditions for drought. According to new...
Offspring of older mothers are more responsive to aging interventions, study finds
Credit: Michael Shribak and Kristin Gribble WOODS HOLE, Mass. - Advanced maternal age at the time of giving birth is...
Study confirms and ranks nursery value of coastal habitats
Findings will help resource managers with difficult conservation decisionsCredit: © D. Malmquist/VIMS. A comprehensive analysis of more than 11,000 previous...
U of T Mississauga study identifies ‘master pacemaker’ for biological clocks
Credit: Photo credit: sibya via Pixabay What makes a biological clock tick? According to a new study from U of...
Lurie Children’s offers kids virtual escape from intensive care unit
From scuba diving to snowboarding, patients in the pediatric intensive care unit leave the hospital behind with virtual reality For...
Engineers craft the basic building block for electrospun nanofibers
Credit: Peter Zhu/Michigan Tech Electrospinning uses electric fields to manipulate nanoscale and microscale fibers. The technique is well-developed but time-intensive...
Donor muscle training before transplantation expedites rehabilitation process in patients
Researchers at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience of the Higher School of Economics have proposed to train transplanted muscles in...
Rural America needs more headache specialists, WVU researcher says
Credit: WVU MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--West Virginia is short on neurologists. According to David Watson, who directs the West Virginia University Headache...
RIT researchers set to help LIGO resume the hunt for ripples in space and time
Advanced LIGO's third observing run will provide scientists new data on gravitational waves The Nobel Prize-winning project that hunts for...
Artificial intelligence can predict premature death, study finds
Computers which are capable of teaching themselves to predict premature death could greatly improve preventative healthcare in the future, suggests...
Southern Europeans, non-Europeans less likely to have matched stem cell donors
Alternative donor transplants are needed for these patients (WASHINGTON, March 27, 2019) -- Although the pool of registered bone marrow...
