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Research opens possibility of reducing risk of gut bacterial infections with next-generation probiotic
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A team of researchers is exploring the possibility that next-generation probiotics - live bacteria that...
Scientists unearth cell ‘checkpoint’ that stops allergic diseases
Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have made a significant breakthrough in understanding the regulation of immune cells that play a...
Research to advance disease therapies, understand cosmic rays among cargo headed to ISS
Credit: NASA The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is targeted for launch August 14 from Kennedy Space Center for its twelfth...
Improving detection of a ‘date rape’ drug
Because gamma hydroxybutyric acid (GHB), commonly known as a "date rape drug" is rapidly absorbed and metabolized by the body,...
Family break-ups lead to domestic violence in fruit fly relationships
Credit: Amy Hong Male fruit flies with strong family ties are less likely to become abusive during mating than others,...
Bill Gates and Francis Collins to speak at ASHG 2017
WHEN: Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, 5:00-6:30 pm WHERE: Orange County Convention Center, South Building, Hall B 9800-9899 International Drive, Orlando,...
How cicadas manage to ‘wing it’
(American Chemical Society) Unlike locusts and many other flying insects, cicadas don't soar through the air with the greatest of...
Decommissioning Platform Holly
When the Colorado-based oil company Venoco, Inc. -- founded in Carpinteria, California, more than two decades ago -- declared bankruptcy...
Funding for gene therapy to injured peripheral nerves
Scientists from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry have received funding from the Northcott Devon Medical Foundation to...
Damming and its effects on fish
Credit: Steven Mattocks Fish that migrate between freshwater and sea ecosystems play a multitude of ecological roles. In the centuries...
Insight into learning via ‘friend of fragile X’ gene
Credit: Ken Moberg. We can learn a lot about somebody from the friends they hang out with. This applies to...
Researchers examine contaminants in hunted wildlife
Concerning environmental contaminants, game species are not subject to the same safety testing as commercially marketed livestock. A recent study...
Preparing for longevity — we don’t need to become frail as we age
Age-related frailty may be a treatable and preventable health problem, just like obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, highlights a review...
Researchers create biomaterial that delivers both a powerful drug and gene silencers
BROOKLYN, New York - Clinicians today have an arsenal of more than 200 drugs at their disposal for treating a...
The ethics of animal research
The ethics pertaining to animal research have evolved over centuries, but there is still need for refining and improving them....
Crystallography provides battle-plan blueprints for attacking disease-causing bacteria
Credit: Professor Martin Caffrey, Trinity College Dublin. Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have gained key structural insights into the machinery...
Arrival of modern humans in Southeast Asia questioned
Credit: Tanya Smith and Rokus Awe Due Humans may have exited out of Africa and arrived in Southeast Asia 20,000...
Report confirms 2016 was another warm year
A new report published in Weather confirms that 2016 was another exceptionally warm year, with global temperature having reached 0.77±...
Extinction mystery solved? Evidence suggests humans played a role in monkey’s demise in Jamaica
Credit: Siobhán Cooke, Johns Hopkins Medicine Radiocarbon dating of a fossilized leg bone from a Jamaican monkey called Xenothrix mcgregori...
Supporting women’s autonomy in prenatal testing
Noninvasive fetal genetic sequencing done early in pregnancy is poised to become a routine part of prenatal care. While it...
