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Being overweight may change young adults’ heart structure, function
DALLAS, July 30, 2018 -- Even as a young adult, being overweight may cause higher blood pressure and thicken heart...
Beetle named after actress & biologist Isabella Rossellini for her series about animals
Credit: Menno Schilthuizen A new species of beetle with remarkably long genitalia that hint at a curious evolutionary "sexual arms...
Poll: Older adults support opioid Rx limits, need better counseling on use & disposal
Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, MI - Nearly a third of older adults have received a prescription for an...
Pungent tasting substance in ginger reduces bad breath
The pungent compound 6-gingerol, a constituent of ginger, stimulates an enzyme contained in saliva - an enzyme which breaks down...
Individual silver nanoparticles observed in real time
Credit: RUB, Kramer Chemists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have developed a new method of observing the chemical reactions of individual silver...
Advancing the search for antibodies to treat Alzheimer’s disease
Two new studies published by investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital illustrate that not all forms of amyloid-beta (Aβ) protein...
Homelessness in infancy linked to poor health outcomes for children and mothers
BOSTON - A new study led by researchers from Children's HealthWatch, a research and policy network headquartered at Boston Medical...
Targeting gene mutations to treat ovarian cancers
Credit: Westmead Institute for Medical Research New research has shown that ovarian cancer patients with a tumour mutation in the...
UCI awarded $9 million grant to determine the long-term effects of cannabis on adolescents
Irvine, Calif. - July 30, 2018 - The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of...
Vanderbilt team finds potent antibodies against three Ebola viruses
Credit: Photo by Susan Urmy Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and their colleagues are a step closer to developing...
Scientists took another step towards creating an HIV vaccine
Credit: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University The scientific group of Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University headed by...
Brain game doesn’t offer brain gain
A new study led by a team of Western University neuroscientists has debunked claims that getting better at a brain...
Study shows how Oropouche virus replicates in human cells
The strategy used by the Oropouche virus to replicate in human cells has been described for the first time by...
Many young people don’t know when female and male fertility declines, study finds
Most students underestimate the impact of female and male age on fertility, new research published in Human Fertility finds. Less...
Poor mental health days may cost the economy billions of dollars
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Poor mental health ranks as one of the costliest forms of sickness for U.S. workers and...
Sequencing a malaria mosquito’s motherline
A team led by scientists from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has sequenced and annotated the first...
Scientists discover a dynamic cellular defense against breast cancer invasion
Credit: Katarina Sirka Johns Hopkins researchers report they have demonstrated in mouse tissue grown in the lab that the cell...
A reliable, easy-to-use mouse model for investigating bone metastasis
Credit: Shinae Kondoh, Nature Communications Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology propose an improved mouse model that could revolutionize bone...
Harnessing hair loss gene could improve cancer immunotherapy
NEW YORK, NY (July 30, 2018)--A gene that's associated with an autoimmune form of hair loss could be exploited to...
Peste des petits ruminants: a model for use in eradicating the disease
Credit: © ENVT, A. Waret-Szkuta Eradicating peste des petits ruminants is an ambitious objective that is neveretheless looking increasingly realistic,...
