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CSU uses test for chronic wasting disease to study brain ailments in people
Credit: CSU Photography Wildlife disease experts at Colorado State University are investigating whether a test developed to detect early-stage chronic...
NIH scientists and collaborators find prion protein in skin of CJD patients
Credit: Case Western Reserve University National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and collaborators at Case Western Reserve University School of...
Researchers discover how selenium is incorporated into proteins
Credit: Miljan Simonovic. Humans need eight essential trace elements for good health, and one of them is selenium – a...
UTSW identify process cells use to destroy damaged organelles, with…
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS – Dec. 22, 2016 – Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have uncovered the...
Sniffing out stem cell fates in the nose
Credit: Russell Fletcher & John Ngai, UC Berkeley Adult stem cells have the ability to transform into many types of...
Cells pumping iron to prevent anemia
Credit: Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan — Maintaining a good balance of iron in the body is necessary for health: too...
Workbench for virus design
Credit: Dr Graham Beards Bacteriophages, known informally as phages, are viruses that can attack and kill specific bacteria. They occur...
Will mallards hybridize their cousins out of existence?
Credit: Gary Kramer/USFWS (public domain) Mallards — the familiar green-headed ducks of city parks — are one of a group...
Dino hips discovery unravels species riddle
Credit: Julius Csotonyi New research from University of Alberta paleontologists shows one of North America's most broadly identified dinosaur species,...
Pitt and UPMC researchers collaborate to save more organs for transplants
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering PITTSBURGH (October 30, 2017) … Each year, the United States suffers an extreme shortage of...
Army medicine opens the door for vision prosthetic prototypes
Army medical research funding has supported the development of innovative technologies to assist injured Service members and improve their quality...
Russian scientists plot antibiotic resistance on a world map
Credit: Bioinformatics Russian scientists have created an interactive world map of human gut microbiota potential to resist antibiotics (resistome). Their...
Conventional heart drug stops the progression of cancer
A common heart drug may stop the progression of angiosarcoma, a cancer of the inner lining of blood vessels, according...
Computer model developed for predicting the dispersion of vog
A paper published this month in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society details the development and utility of a...
New evidence links exclusive breastfeeding, early play/stimulation to…
Toronto, Canada — A pair of new studies further strengthen scientific understanding of the links between what a child experiences...
Loma Linda University study says eating nuts can reduce weight gain
A study recently published in the online version of the European Journal of Nutrition has found that people who include...
Heritage turkey production research profitable but more difficult
Credit: Penn State To meet increasing consumer demand for heritage-breed turkeys to be the centerpiece of holiday and other meals,...
Iberian Peninsula rodents migrated due to climate change 12 million years ago
Credit: Oscar Sanisidro (Vertebrate Paleontology. Biodiversitiy Institute, University of Kansas) The oldest studied rodent fauna in this work, which inhabited...
Save the Vaquita Day marked by bold, coordinated efforts to save the…
Credit: VaquitaCPR The world is marking International Save the Vaquita Day on July 8 by supporting VaquitaCPR's ambitious, emergency plan...
Study: Patients benefit from one-on-one PT education before joint replacement
Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery A study at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) finds that patients benefit from a one-on-one...
