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Implantable wireless devices trigger — and may block — pain signals
Building on wireless technology that has the potential to interfere with pain, scientists have developed flexible, implantable devices that can...
Harvest of nuisance black bears in New Jersey reducing human-bear…
Credit: New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife LOGAN, UTAH, USA – Is there room for black bears in human-dominated...
Researchers collaborate to develop bird’s eye view of rural…
Credit: Wits University Scientists from the Wits School of Public Health, the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) in Kwa-Zulu Natal...
How to increase the fat burned during exercise
When we exercise, our body's oxidation of fat and carbohydrates depends on the intensity and duration of the activity. A...
Autism Speaks releases new strategic plan for science
Credit: Autism Speaks Autism Speaks today released its Strategic Plan for Science 2018-2020, with emphasis on the organization's mission to...
Canadian children’s nutrition suffers during school hours
Credit: UBC Public Affairs / Claire Tugault-Lafleur Canadian children don't eat enough vegetables, fruit and dairy products during school hours,...
Validation of suspected somatic single nucleotide variations
Credit: Centre for Molecular Biology It has been proposed that somatic gene variations (SNV) present in few brain cells could...
Start codons in DNA may be more numerous than previously thought
Credit: Jeff Glasgow/Ariel Hecht/Kelly Irvine/NIST For decades, scientists working with genetic material have labored with a few basic rules in...
Endangered ibises benefit from joining egret flocks
Credit: N. Zhao Birds benefit from flocking together — even when they're not of a feather. According to a new...
NIH to expand critical catalog for genomics research
Credit: Ernesto Del Aguila, NHGRI The National Institutes of Health plans to expand its Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project,...
St. Michael’s Hospital leading study in Canada to identify…
Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Dec. 1, 2017–For many people living with HIV, the stigma associated with their...
Gut microbiota of larvae has an impact on mosquito’s ability to transmit human…
Credit: © Institut Pasteur Mosquitoes are holometabolous insects (i.e. organisms that go through a complete metamorphosis). As such, they occupy...
Van Andel Research Institute’s Hui Shen receives ovarian cancer research award
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Nov. 18, 2015)–The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (OCRF) yesterday announced that Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) Assistant...
Sequencing poisonous mushrooms to potentially create medicine
Credit: By G.L. Kohuth EAST LANSING, Mich. – A team of Michigan State University scientists has genetically sequenced two species...
Oregon scientists link signaling network to heart valve defects
EUGENE, Ore. — May 5, 2016 — A cell-to-cell signaling network that serves as a developmental timer could provide a...
Drugs with multiple targets show promise against myotonic dystrophy type 1
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Efforts to treat myotonic dystrophy type 1, the most common form of muscular dystrophy, are in their...
New metalloid oxide reducing bacteria found in manitoba’s…
Credit: Dr. Vladimir Yurkov A new study published in the Canadian Journal of Microbiology has identified new toxic metalloid-reducing bacteria...
New research reveals cancers need a ‘perfect storm’ of conditions to develop
SCIENTISTS have demonstrated for the first time the 'perfect storm' of conditions that cells need to start forming cancer, helping...
Mixed organization of gut bacteria is revealed by microbiome imaging…
Credit: Jessica Mark Welch and Yuko Hasegawa, MBL WOODS HOLE, Mass.– Disruptions in the microbiome of the human gut are...
Trials show inactivated Zika virus vaccine is safe and immunogenic
Credit: NIAID The investigational Zika purified inactivated virus (ZPIV) vaccine was well-tolerated and induced an immune response in participants, according...
