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Why Hong Kong, Japan and Iceland are the best countries for human development
A paper by Simone Ghislandi and colleagues proposes a simple Human Life Indicator, that overcomes some of the UN's Human...
Wildlife struggle to cope with extreme weather
Credit: Creative Commons CC0. The mass death of flying foxes in extreme heat in North Queensland last month underscores the...
Statins are more effective for those who follow the Mediterranean diet
A diet based on Mediterranean principles enhances the effect of these drugs in patients who already had a heart attack...
Predicting enhancers from multiple cell lines and tissues: Different developmental stages
This article by Dr. Jihong Guan et al. is published in Current Bioinformatics, Volume 13, Issue 6, 2018Credit: Bentham Science...
Study: Increased risk of heart attack, stroke in months leading up to a cancer diagnosis
Risk greatest in people with later-stage cancers and lung and colon cancers (WASHINGTON, December 21, 2018) -- Older adults with...
Human blood cells can be directly reprogrammed into neural stem cells
An important step for regenerative medicine Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the stem cell institute HI-STEM*...
Artificial intelligence system learns to diagnose, classify intracranial hemorrhage
Mass.-General-developed system able to 'explain' reasons behind decisions based on CT scan imagesCredit: Hyunkwang Lee, Harvard School of Engineering and...
A novel mechanism that regulates cellular injury by phagocytes during inflammation
Credit: Kanazawa University Lysosomes are filled with more than 50 different hydrolytic enzymes, which are capable of digesting most cellular...
Structure and function of photosynthesis protein explained in detail
Photosynthetic complex I is a key element in photosynthetic electron transport, but little has been known about it so farCredit:...
Researchers suggest ways to reduce head impacts in youth football
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Dec. 21, 2018 - The high head impact and concussion rates in football are of increasing concern,...
Looking at molecules from two sides with table-top femtosecond soft-X-rays
Credit: MBI Berlin X-ray spectroscopy provides direct access into the nature of chemical bonds, from which the outcome of chemical...
Simple method rescues stressed liver cells
Isolated human hepatocytes are essential tools in preclinical and clinical liver research, but cell quality is highly variable. Now, researchers...
The brain's support cells show defective development in Huntington's disease
The neurological disorder Huntington's disease causes behavioural and motor changes, which among other things are a result of dysfunctional maturation...
North-star perspectives for Actinium-225 production at commercial scale
This article by Dr. James T. Harvey is published in Current Radiopharmaceuticals, Volume 11 , Issue 3 , 2018Credit: Bentham...
Preparation, characterization and in vitro biological activity of Soyasapogenol B
This article by Dr. Ahmed A. Haroun et al. is published in Current Bioactive Compounds, Volume 14 , Issue 4...
Kidney patients are the most complex patients
A study published in JAMA Network Open showed: nephrologists treat the most complex patients. As ERA-EDTA president Professor Carmine Zoccali...
Columbia professor uses data science to create personalized cancer therapies
Columbia's Andrea Califano has developed a highly-predictive computer platform that can analyze all tumor types and predict which drug or...
Pollutants from wildfires affect crop and vegetation growth hundreds of kilometers from impact zone
Credit: Credit Wuxing Wan Pollutants from wild fires affect crop and vegetation growth hundreds of kilometres from impact zone, research...
Fire air pollution weakens forest productivity
Credit: Xu Yue Fire is an important element of Earth system. Every year, global fires directly emit 2 Pg C...
Forget-me-not: Scientists pinpoint memory mechanism in plants
Plant scientists at the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham have unravelled a mechanism that enables flowering plants to sense and...
