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In the eastern US, adult trees adapt and acclimate to local climate
Credit: Gerad Dean (Millbrook, NY) Trees growing in temperate forests in the eastern US show strong adaptation or acclimation to...
Reliability, learnability and efficiency of two tools for cement crowns retrieval
This research work aims to help other researchers in the field to set up an experimental bench to assess the...
CasPER — a new method for diversification of enzymes
Credit: The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, DTU A new study published in the Metabolic Engineering Journal describes a...
Southern California coast emerges as a toxic algae hot spot
A new, comprehensive survey led by USC scientists shows the Southern California coast harbors some of the world's highest concentrations...
How do muscles know what time it is?
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) How do muscle cells prepare for the particular metabolic challenges...
Switching DNA and RNA on and off
DNA and RNA are naturally polarised molecules containing electric dipole moments due to the presence of a significant number of...
Window into the brain
In collaboration with scientists from the Ioffe Institute, HSE University researchers have developed an ultra-sensitive atomic magnetometric scheme with a...
$120 million gift from The Anschutz Foundation to CU Anschutz
Credit: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. AURORA, Colo. (August 21, 2018) - The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus...
Simple leg exercises could reduce impact of sedentary lifestyle on heart and blood vessels
Credit: Vranish et. al. A sedentary lifestyle can cause an impairment of the transport of blood around the body, which...
New ESMO tumor DNA scale helps match patients with cancer to optimal targeted medicines
Credit: European Society for Medical Oncology Lugano, Switzerland- 21 August 2018 - A new scale for tumour DNA mutations which...
Sharp increase in falls in women during midlife — new international research
Falls are not just a problem of advanced age, according to researchers in Trinity College Dublin, who have identified a...
Education program successful at reducing forced sex in South African adolescents
Southern Africa has some of the highest rates of sexual assault in the world, with 20 percent of adolescent girls...
Millennials with type 2 diabetes more likely to face difficulties with social interactions
Credit: Source: Healthline Media's State of Type 2 Diabetes Survey -- Healthline Media commissioned SurveyWriter.com to manage programming and data...
UMBC teams up with Chesapeake Conservancy to create detailed stream maps
Thousands of waterways, from major rivers like the Potomac and Susquehanna to tiny headwaters, flow through the Chesapeake Bay watershed....
Ultrasound could improve early detection of vascular diseases
Ultrasound conducted before a patient develops symptoms could improve early detection of diseases in blood vessels, research led by the...
ASU partners with Mayo Clinic to move germ-killing clays closer to medical use
Credit: Lynda Williams/ASU Researchers at Arizona State University and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, have found that at least...
Study identifies ‘compulsivity circuit’ in heavy alcohol drinkers
Philadelphia, August 21, 2018 Heavy alcohol drinkers attempt to acquire alcohol despite the threat of a negative consequence more so...
Depressed patients see quality of life improve with nerve stimulation
Credit: Matt Miller People with depression who are treated with nerve stimulation experience significant improvements in quality of life, even...
Predicting work status in patients with schizophrenia
Credit: Sumiyoshi, C., et al., Schizophr. Res. (2018), DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2018.05.042 Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that occurs in one out...
This tiny particle might change millions of lives
Credit: Illustrator: Yekaterina (Katya) Kadyshevskaya from the USC Bridge Institute at the Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience Remember the scene...
