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Girls with high level of vitamin D have stronger muscles
Girls are stronger with higher levels of vitamin D, but the association was not found in boys. These are the...
Daily text message may improve adherence and treatment outcomes in patients with gout
The results of a study presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR 2018) demonstrate significant improvements in...
Early birds less prone to depression
Middle-to-older aged women who are naturally early to bed and early to rise are significantly less likely to develop depression,...
Water fluoridation confirmed to prevent dental decay in US children and adolescents
Alexandria, Va., USA - The fluoridation of America's drinking water was among the great public health achievements of the twentieth...
TNT could be headed for retirement after 116 years on the job
Credit: LANL LOS ALAMOS, N.M., June 14, 2018--Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in...
International research team finds brain changes linked to sleep need
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - June 13, 2018 - We've all experienced going to bed tired and waking up refreshed,...
New research in Kenya finds sweet spot for harvesting reef fish
Credit: E. Darling/WCS NEW YORK (June 13, 2018)-- An age-old challenge of determining the right amount of fish to harvest...
Antarctic fungi found to be effective against citrus canker
Credit: Daiane Cristina Sass (IB-UNESP) A research team at the São Paulo State University's Bioscience Institute (IB-UNESP) in Rio Claro,...
Patients prefer to have cancer screenings despite risks and warnings
Credit: MU News Bureau A large proportion of the American public opts to receive cancer screenings with the hope that...
Cryo-EM reveals interaction between major drug targets
Credit: Courtesy of the Xu Laboratory, Van Andel Research Institute GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (June 13, 2018) -- For the first...
ISB develops stress test to predict how diatoms will react to ocean acidification
SEATTLE, June 13, 2018 -- Researchers at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) have shown that diatoms can withstand population...
Seeking new relationships with invasive species
With summer nearly here in North America, we often hear about invasive plants popping up in undesirable locations, "colonizing" different...
Genetic soil prospecting yields wealth of potential antibiotics
Credit: Zosia Rostomian image, Berkeley Lab. Soil, the source of our best antibiotics, can be more thoroughly mined for new...
UGA and UConn Health researchers discover roles and teamwork of CRISPR-Cas proteins
Credit: UGA Recently published research from the University of Georgia and UConn Health provides new insight about the basic biological...
Muscle growth in the computer: international team wants to unravel the formation of myofibrils
Credit: Katharina Knaut How the bicep tenses is no longer a secret. In every muscle cell there are so-called myofibrils,...
Periodontal cell sheet technique promotes bone and ligament formation on dental implant
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 11, 2018--Researchers used periodontal ligament (PDL)-derived stem cells to create...
E- textiles control home appliances with the swipe of a finger (video)
Credit: American Chemical Society Electronic textiles could allow a person to control household appliances or computers from a distance simply...
Interest in tandem solar cells heats up
For decades, silicon solar cells have been used to convert energy from sunlight into electricity. However, recent improvements in perovskite...
Stem cell-derived organoids for testing gene delivery to retinal & photoreceptor cells
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 12, 2018--A new study that compared six of the most...
For 100 million years, amber freezes a tableau of tick’s worst day ever
Credit: University of Kansas LAWRENCE -- One day in Myanmar during the Cretaceous period, a tick managed to ensnare itself...
