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Bigger human brain prioritizes thinking hub — at a cost
Credit: National Institute of Mental Health Some human brains are nearly twice the size of others - but how might...
Federal home visiting program can be improved to better meet needs of families
Credit: Justin Kelley/MU Health The multibillion-dollar MIECHV program was formed as part of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care...
Next-generation sequencing sheds light on rotavirus in Indonesia
Credit: Kobe University Rotavirus A causes acute diarrhea in young children, and infects both animals and humans worldwide. A Japanese...
Handgun purchaser licensing laws linked to fewer firearm homicides in large, urban areas
State laws that require gun purchasers to obtain a license contingent on passing a background check performed by state or...
Researchers create new programmed shape-morphing scaffolds enabling facile 3-D endothelialization
Credit: DU Xuemin Recently, a research team led by Dr. DU Xuemin at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT)...
Antifungal drug eliminates sleeping bowel cancer cells in mice
An antifungal medication, commonly prescribed for toenail infections, could help eliminate dormant cells within bowel tumours, according to new research...
Lipid molecules can be used for cancer growth
Cancer cells can when the blood supply is low use lipid molecules as fuel instead of blood glucose. This has...
Gun violence research gets $50 million support fund
The RAND Corporation has been selected to help oversee a philanthropic fund that will support high-quality research on issues related...
TGen and Huntsman Cancer Institute receive $6.7 million grant to battle a hidden enemy
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- May 30, 2018 -- Often what kills cancer patients is not the cancer at its original or...
Researchers find leukemia and lymphoma drug may benefit glioblastoma patients
May 30, 2018, Cleveland: New Cleveland Clinic research shows for the first time that ibrutinib, an FDA-approved drug for lymphoma...
Seed grant to establish Southeast Center for Mathematics and Biology
Credit: Elena Dimitrova CLEMSON - In a collaboration with faculty from six other universities, Clemson University mathematician Elena Dimitrova has...
ESA tipsheet for June 2018
Credit: ©M Curnock Biologists use eDNA to find insect invaders Biologists can use environmental DNA ("eDNA") found in water samples...
The smallest biggest theropod dinosaur
Credit: G. Bindellini Spinosaurus is the longest, and among the largest predatory dinosaurs, and possesses many adaptations for a semiaquatic...
Details that look sharp to people may be blurry to their pets
Credit: Eleanor Caves DURHAM, N.C. -- Compared with many animals, human eyes aren't particularly adept at distinguishing colors or seeing...
Lone water molecules turn out to be directors of supramolecular chemistry
Credit: Bart van Overbeeke Scientists in supramolecular chemistry often run into surprising outcomes. A broken seal of a lab cuvette...
Iron-sulfur cluster research offers new avenues of investigating disease
Many important proteins in the human body need iron-sulfur clusters, tiny structures made of iron and sulfur atoms, in order...
CLL patient treated at Penn goes into remission thanks to single CAR T cell
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - The doctors who have spent years studying the case call it "a series of fortunate...
Two-pronged antibodies draw immune killers directly to cancer cells
Credit: Rader lab, The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, FL--May 30, 2018--Our immune system's arsenal of defenses usually protects us from...
Space technologies to help improve environmental and living conditions at banks of the Ganges
Credit: Surya Gupta Leicester team to use satellite data to examine how changes in water availability and agricultural practises threaten...
Kicking the car(bon) habit better for air pollution than technology revolution
Changing our lifestyles and the way we travel could have as big - if not more of an impact on...
