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Payments to protect carbon stored in forests must increase to defend against rubber
Credit: University of East Anglia Payments to protect carbon stored in forests must increase to defend against rubber plantations Efforts...
Simplifying samples
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis Imagine a physician in a rural or remote area who needs to send a...
Researchers find transferable antibiotic resistance gene in pathogen of developing nations
Washington, DC - March 2, 2018 - A team of investigators has found that the mcr-1 drug resistance gene, which...
Scientists use satellites and drones to discover antarctic penguin ‘super-colonies’
(Louisiana State University) A recent scientific expedition to the Danger Islands, a remote group of tiny islands along eastern side...
Study in six countries identifies groups that are vulnerable to severe mental illness
Young males, ethnic minorities and people living in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas are more likely to experience first-episode psychosis, defined as...
Do racial and gender disparities exist in newer glaucoma treatments?
SAN FRANCISCO - The American Glaucoma Society today announced that it has awarded a grant to Mildred MG Olivier, MD,...
New UTSA lab addresses pediatric feeding disorders
Bryant Silbaugh, assistant professor of special education in The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Department of Interdisciplinary Learning...
Children with marginally low birth weight needs treatment
Credit: Anders Friberg Children with a birth weight under 2.5 kilos stand at risk of becoming underweight and can experience...
3-D-written model to provide better understanding of cancer spread
Credit: (Purdue University image/Luis Solorio) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue researcher Luis Solorio has helped create a lifelike cancer environment...
Bubbles of life from the past
Credit: Stefan Bengtson Take a good look at these photos: They show you 1.6 billion years old fossilized oxygen bubbles,...
New research showed better survival outcomes in one type of heart failure
Singapore - A joint 7-year cohort study of 2039 patients in both Singapore's restructured hospitals and New Zealand's hospitals, revealed...
Columbia researchers win Microsoft award to support data-driven ecological research
Two researchers from the Data Science Institute (DSI) have been awarded a Microsoft grant that gives them access to the...
Mammalian development: Blastocyst architecture
The mechanisms that underlie early embryonic development in humans and cattle are very similar. Therefore, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich researchers...
Two species of ravens nevermore? New research finds evidence of ‘speciation reversal’
Credit: Bjørn Aksel Bjerke/University of Oslo For over a century, speciation -- where one species splits into two -- has...
Gastric bypass surgery can give better control for diabetes and obesity than lifestyle modification
Gastric bypass surgery can give better control for diabetes and obesity than lifestyle modification In a randomized clinical trial comparing...
Release of the 7th edition of the International Standards on Hematopoietic Cell Therapy
Credit: © EBMT Today the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) is announcing the release of the 7th...
Antibiotics may impact cancer treatment efficacy
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 5, 2018) - Antibiotic use is known to have a...
Deeper look at biopsy exposes mutation ready to ambush drug combination
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON - A powerful resistance mutation that appeared to emerge in melanoma after a patient...
Discovery shows wine grapes gasping for breath
Credit: University of Adelaide University of Adelaide researchers have discovered how grapes "breathe", and that shortage of oxygen leads to...
Fred Hutch announces 2018 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award recipients
SEATTLE -- March 1, 2018 -- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has announced the 2018 recipients of the annual Harold...
