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Condemned prisoners prefer formalwear at executions, UC study finds
Credit: New York World, 1899 What would you wear to your own execution? It's a moot question in the United...
Queen’s University Belfast researcher turning dirty tinfoil into…
Credit: Queen's University Belfast A researcher at Queen's University Belfast has discovered a way to convert dirty aluminium foil into...
Gene study to shed light on how some people stay sharp in old age
Credit: University of Edinburgh More than one thousand people have had their entire genetic make-up decoded as part of a...
More blood vessels in adipose tissue may alleviate type 2 diabetes
Researchers at Wihuri Research Institute and University of Helsinki, Finland, in collaboration with scientists from Vanderbilt and Groningen Universities used...
Highly organized structures discovered in microbial communities with…
IMAGE: A "hedgehog " structure in dental plaque, collected from a healthy volunteer using a toothpick. Corynebacteria, shown in magenta,...
ERs can improve population health in rural areas
Credit: American College of Emergency Physicians WASHINGTON — Emergency physicians in Michigan propose a new health care delivery model for...
New book offers help and hope for people suffering from low vision
Credit: Bernhard Sabel Magdeburg, Germany, December 14, 2016 – Becoming blind changes a person's life on a fundamental level. Because...
Liver may sway sweet tooth, alcohol consumption
IMAGE: Cravings for sweet foods are common, yet the mechanisms that influence the ''sweet tooth'' are not well-defined. This visual...
Skeletons developed as chemistry of oceans changed, study shows
Credit: Alina Konovalenko Skeletons and shells first came into being 550 million years ago as the chemical make-up of seawater...
IBS breakthrough in the treatment of cancer
Scientists from the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have successfully inhibited the growth of colon tumors in mice with mismatch...
Conserved role for Ovo protein in reproductive cell development in mice and fruit flies
Credit: Image by Roblan/Shutterstock, Szasz-Fabian Jozsef/Shutterstock Tsukuba, Japan – Germline cells are the only cells that develop into eggs or...
Biological consequences of climate change on epidemics may be scale-dependent
Credit: IOZ Conventional thinking holds that current climate warming will increase the prevalence and transmission of disease. However, a recent...
SUTD researchers solve mystery behind red blood cell maturation
Credit: (Photo Courtesy: Singapore University of Technology & Design) Red blood cells are formed in the bone marrow from haematopoietic...
Love is blind… to food waste
For many, there's nothing like sitting down for a family meal at a table filled with hot, ready-to-serve food. Many...
Computerized biology, or how to control a population of cells with a computer
Credit: © Gregory Batt, Jakob Ruess, Chetan Aditya (Inria / Institut Pasteur) Researchers from the Pasteur Institute and Inria, with...
New strategy to fight mosquitoes in a more efficient and sustainable way
Credit: © E. van Herk Mosquitoes continue to build resistance to existing pesticides. Research has now shown that the chemical...
New dental material resists plaque and kills microbes, Penn dental team finds
Credit: University of Pennsylvania Dentists rely on composite materials to perform restorative procedures, such as filling cavities. Yet these materials,...
Simplifying information aids fight against childhood obesity, study…
Credit: UVA Health System Providing simplified health information designed for parents with low health literacy helps all families in childhood...
Why bearcats smell like buttered popcorn
Credit: Photo courtesy of Carolina Tiger Rescue DURHAM, N.C. — The bearcat. The binturong. Whatever you call this shy, shaggy-haired...
New method of calculating protein interaction to speed up drug development
Credit: Image courtesy of MIPT Press Office Biologists and mathematicians from MIPT, Stony Brook University and other scientific research centres...
