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Credit: Alonso Nichols, Tufts University BOSTON (May 15, 2018)--Tufts University and BioLabs today announced the opening of Tufts Launchpad |...

Understanding Andean concepts of death and renewal

Research in the Andes has yielded evidence for a complex association between settlement sites and mortuary monuments, tied to concepts...

Big data from world’s largest citizen science microbiome project serves food for thought

Credit: UC San Diego Health Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and collaborators have published the...

Study provides further insight into how Ebola affects the eye

A new study, conducted by the researchers from the University of Liverpool, published in JAMA Ophthalmology identifies the specific characteristics...

New hope for patients with depression and anxiety

There is a strong link between depression and anxiety disorders and autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT), a chronic thyroid condition affecting approximately...

Prenatal testing of the fetal rhesus factor: Test is reliable, but benefit is unclear

If the blood of a pregnant woman is rhesus-negative (Rh-negative) and the blood of the foetus is rhesus-positive (Rh-positive), the...

Researchers identify the most accurate risk prediction models for selecting whom to screen

Below please find summaries of new articles that will be published in the next issue of Annals of Internal Medicine....

Study hints at new target to improve immune therapy in triple-negative breast cancer

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Therapies that recruit the immune system to attack tumors are revolutionizing cancer care. Among...

Uncertainty in long-run economic growth likely points toward greater emissions, climate change costs

URBANA, Ill. - For scientists, estimating the extent of and cost of damages from climate change over the next 100...

Early BPA exposure may influence cardiac function, according to new study in neonatal rats

Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON - (May 14, 2018) - More than 8 million pounds of bisphenol A (BPA)...

Hungry, hungry hippos

The average hippo weighs more than 3,000 pounds and consumes about 100 pounds of vegetation daily. This naturally results in...

Altered body odor indicates malaria even if microscope doesn’t

Credit: Jim Gathany / CDC Typhoid Mary may have infected a hundred or more people, but asymptomatic carriers of malaria...

Deadly cancers show early, detectable differences from benign tumors

DURHAM, N.C. - Do metastatic cancer tumors "break bad" or are they "born bad"? This question is an essential mystery...

Simple equation directs creation of clean-energy catalysts

New guidelines laid down by Nebraska and Chinese researchers could steer the design of less costly, more efficient catalysts geared...

Researcher studies importance of synchrony in ecological systems such as food webs

Credit: University of Kansas LAWRENCE -- A recent $426,609, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation will enable a new...

Scientists find missing factor in gene activation

Credit: Kadonaga Lab, UC San Diego Until human genes are activated, they are blocked by structures known as nucleosomes, components...

A new drug shows preclinical efficacy in Rett syndrome

Credit: IDIBELL A new article published in the Cell Reports describes how a new drug is able to reduce the...

Study shows how bacteria guide electron flow for efficient energy generation

Credit: Robert Gennis CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Biochemists at the University of Illinois have isolated a protein supercomplex from a bacterial...

Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy in long-term survivors of childhood cancer