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More frequent extreme ocean warming could further endanger albatross
As Earth warms due to human-caused climate change, extreme climatic events like heat waves, droughts, and spikes in ocean temperatures...
Better treatment for kidney cancer thanks to new mouse model
Credit: University of Zurich Roughly 2-3 percent of all people suffering from cancer have kidney cancer. The most common form...
Your sex life is only as old as you feel
The closer you feel to your actual age, the less likely you are to be satisfied with your sex life,...
Harvard Pilgrim signs outcomes-based contracts with AstraZeneca for Brilinta and Bydureon
WELLESLEY, MA - Harvard Pilgrim Health Care has signed two innovative, outcomes-based contracts with AstraZeneca for medicines to treat acute...
The chemistry of plants facing multiple stress scenarios
Credit: Karen Kloth All living organisms harbour complex chemical networks inside their cells. The sum of all these chemical reactions...
Not such a ‘simple’ sugar — glucose may help fight cancer and inflammatory disease
Credit: Professor David Finlay, Trinity College Dublin. Glucose - commonly referred to as a 'simple' sugar - may actually be...
Flash glucose monitoring offers accuracy, ease of use, and clinical benefit for type 1 diabetes
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 30, 2017--Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) sensors are now so accurate...
A tough talk: How to improve cost transparency in cancer care
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Being transparent about the cost of cancer treatments with patients has been increasingly recommended to...
New antibiotic packs a punch against bacterial resistance
LA JOLLA, CA - May 29, 2017 - Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have given new superpowers to...
Hotspots show that vegetation alters climate by up to 30 percent
Credit: Xi Yang/University of Virginia New York, NY -- May 29, 2017 -- A new Columbia Engineering study, led by...
Toward an HIV cure: Pitt team develops test to detect hidden virus
PITTSBURGH, May 29, 2017 - The quest to develop a cure for HIV has long been plagued by a seemingly...
Graphene and quantum dots put in motion a CMOS-integrated camera that can see the invisible
Credit: ICFO/ D. Bartolome Over the past 40 years, microelectronics have advanced by leaps and bounds thanks to silicon and...
Squeezing every drop of fresh water from waste brine
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Engineers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a new way to recover...
First Nations, Inuit babies hospitalized more often in first year of life
First Nations and Inuit babies were hospitalized much more often in the first year of life compared with non-Indigenous babies,...
New test method aims to predict allergenic potency of chemicals
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a method which determines not only whether a chemical or substance is...
Increasing the age limit for Lynch syndrome genetic testing may save lives
Copenhagen, Denmark: Raising the age limit for routine genetic testing in colorectal cancer could identify more cases of families affected...
Historical rainfall levels are significant in carbon emissions from soil
Credit: Courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory AUSTIN, Texas - Scientists have known that microbes living in the ground can...
Climate change can alter the impact of forest pathogens in trees
Credit: Riikka Linnakoski New research on projected climate changes from the University of Helsinki indicates that climate change has an...
How self-regulation can help young people overcome setbacks
Failing an exam at school, getting rejected for a job or being screamed at by your teacher or superior are...
Biologics before triple therapy not cost effective for rheumatoid arthritis
Stepping up to biologic therapy when methotrexate monotherapy fails offers minimal incremental benefit over using a combination of drugs known...
