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Cash payments prompt tropical forest users to harvest less
Credit: Krister Par Andersson/CU Boulder Paying rural villagers to cut down fewer trees boosts conservation not only while the payments...
Fussy eating prevents mongoose family feuds
Credit: Harry Marshall Mongooses living in large groups develop "specialist" diets so they don't have to fight over food, new...
Preeclampsia screening method found superior to current tests
New research highlights a more accurate way to screen for preeclampsia in pregnant women than currently recommended methods. Published early...
‘Lazy lawn mowers’ can help support suburban bee populations and diversity
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Homeowners concerned about the decline of bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects need look...
ADHD drugs increase brain glutamate, predict positive emotion in healthy people
Credit: White Lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A new study shows that healthy people who take attention deficit...
Key biological mechanism is disrupted by ocean acidification
Credit: Jeff McQuaid A team led by scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego...
Saving lives with platypus milk
Credit: Laura Romin and Larry Dalton. A breakthrough by Australian scientists has brought the introduction of an unlikely hero in...
Smoke-damaged airway tissue restored on switching to glo
Credit: British American Tobacco A new lab-based study has shown that when airway cells damaged by cigarette smoke are exposed...
Tim Julius Schulz awarded the prize for work on adipocyte biology
FRANKFURT am MAIN. Professor Tim J. Schulz from the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) in Potsdam-Rehbruecke will today receive...
Nine physician specialty groups caution HHS against proposed drug pricing changes
Washington, D.C. - Nine of the nation's leading physician groups - including the American College of Rheumatology, American Academy of...
Researchers link defects in a nuclear receptor in the brain to autism spectrum disorders
Credit: University of Houston HOUSTON, March 14, 2018 - Two University of Houston scientists are reporting that defects in a...
New research solves the 60-year-old paleontological mystery of a ‘phantom’ dicynodont
Credit: Adrian Smith & Christian Kammerer; North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences A new study has re-discovered fossil collections from...
Paul Ehrlich Prize for Anthony Cerami and David Wallach
FRANKFURT am MAIN. Anthony Cerami from the United States and David Wallach from Israel will today receive the Paul Ehrlich...
Researchers identify common biological features of different types of asthma
A team of researchers from the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre - a partnership between Leicester's Hospitals, the University of...
Study: Hispanic Americans across ethnicities want HIV testing in Spanish
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Clinicians are advised to never group Hispanic Americans under one collective identity. But when it comes to...
Artificial and biological cells work together as mini chemical factories
Credit: Imperial College London Researchers have fused living and non-living cells for the first time in a way that allows...
Treatment for male anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis patients
Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis is an acute disease occurring when antibodies produced by the body's own immune system attack N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)...
A lesson from Darwin
When British naturalist Charles Darwin traveled to the Galapagos Islands in 1835, he took notice of the giant kelp forests...
Researchers create 3-D structure of the nuclear pore complex
(Boston)--For the first time, researchers have produced a nearly complete three-dimensional structure for the yeast Nuclear Pore Complex (NPC). This...
‘Body on a chip’ could improve drug evaluation
Credit: Felice Frankel CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT engineers have developed new technology that could be used to evaluate new drugs...
