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Women with past adverse childhood experiences more likely to have ovaries removed, study shows
ROCHESTER, Minn. --Mayo Clinic researchers report that women who suffered adverse childhood experiences or abuse as an adult are 62...
A more sustainable way to refine metals
Credit: Michael J. Krause (Western University) A team of chemists in Canada has developed a way to process metals without...
Mining cancer data for treatment clues
Credit: Jeremy Goecks, Bassel F. El-Rayes, Shishir K. Maithel, H. Jean Khoury, James Taylor, Michael R. Rossi There is an...
This week from AGU: Offshore wind turbines vulnerable to Category 5 hurricane gusts
GeoSpace Offshore wind turbines vulnerable to Category 5 hurricane gusts Offshore wind turbines built according to current standards may not...
Running multiple marathons does not increase risk of atherosclerosis
Sophia Antipolis, 7 June 2017: Running multiple marathons does not increase the risk of atherosclerosis, according to research published today...
New-generation material removes iodine from water
Credit: Chenfeng Ke / Dartmouth College HANOVER, N.H. - June 7, 2017- Researchers at Dartmouth College have developed a new...
The hidden order in DNA diffusion
Credit: © KAUST Anastasia Khrenova A different approach to analyzing the motion of diffusing molecules has helped overturn the long-held...
Small climb in mean temperatures linked to far higher chance of deadly heat waves
Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI Irvine, Calif., June 7, 2017 -- An increase in mean temperature of 0.5 degrees Celsius...
Gene therapy leads to long-term benefits in dog model of devastating childhood disease
Researchers who previously showed that a gene therapy treatment could save the lives of dogs with a deadly disease called...
Higher alcohol consumption leads to greater loss of muscle tissue in postmenopausal women
CLEVELAND, Ohio (June 7, 2017)--If you feel as though you can't do as much physically as you've gotten older, there...
Type of sugar may treat atherosclerosis, mouse study shows
Credit: Ismail Sergin Researchers have long sought ways to harness the body's immune system to treat disease, especially cancer. Now,...
A small group of neurons modulates the amount of insulin that the pancreas must produce
Credit: Image: Alicia G Gómez-Valadés The brain is key in the regulation of appetite, body weight and metabolism. Specifically, there...
Microbiology: Many forks make light work
New insights into the control of DNA replication and cell division in Corynebacterium glutamicum, a biotechnologically important microorganism, could help...
Finding new homes won’t help Emperor penguins cope with climate change
Credit: Photo courtesy of Stephanie Jenouvrier, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution If projections for melting Antarctic sea ice through 2100 are...
Precision therapy enasidenib effective in treating deadly form of leukemia
(WASHINGTON, June 6, 2017) -- Some patients with relapsed or treatment-resistant acute myeloid leukemia, a form of blood cancer for...
Computer-aided imaging technique could reduce risk of second breast cancer surgery
Credit: Sunhua Wan, Hsiang-Chieh Lee, Xiaolei Huang, Ting Xu, Tao Xu, Xianxu Zeng, Zhan Zhang, Yuri Sheikine, James L. Connolly,...
Starving prostate cancer with what you eat for dinner
Credit: Steven Jackson When you dine on curry and baked apples, enjoy the fact that you are eating something that...
Gut bacteria could protect cancer patients and pregnant women from Listeria, study suggests
Credit: Becattini et al., 2017 Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York have discovered that bacteria living...
Dogs help in breast carcinoma research
Credit: Michelle Aimée Oesch, University of Zurich Cancer is one of the most frequent diseases not only in people, but...
The complete epigenomes of the most frequent tumors, unveiled
Credit: IDIBELL A research team from the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) has managed to characterize the complete epigenomes of...
