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Hazardous contamination found around lead battery recycling plants in…
Credit: Occupational Knowledge International San Francisco, Jan. 18, 2018 – Extensive lead contamination was found in lead battery recycling plants...
Drug discovery: Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s spurred by…
Credit: From Zhang et al NSMB (2017). Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are not the same. They affect different regions...
Michelangelo’s Medici Chapel may contain hidden symbols of female anatomy
Credit: Clinical Anatomy Michelangelo often surreptitiously inserted pagan symbols into his works of art, many of them possibly associated with...
Epilepsy drug discovered in fish model shows promise in small…
Credit: Image courtesy of Scott Baraban, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco. "Bench-to-bedside" describes research that has progressed from basic...
UTA engineering professor to use data mining to help patients’…
Credit: UT Arlington A researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington is working to develop big data mining tools...
New discoveries on evolution can save endangered species
Traditionally, the evolutionary development of an insect species has been explained by the notion that the female insect chooses her...
Forsyth Institute researcher Floyd Dewhirst named as AAAS Fellow
Credit: The Forsyth Institute. Cambridge, MA – November 20, 2017 – The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)...
Seven research teams receive Intermountain-Stanford grant award
Credit: Intermountain Healthcare Stanford Medicine and Intermountain Healthcare have announced the recipients of more than $500,000 in seed grants focused...
Control mechanism unveiled for gene that causes Opitz syndrome
Credit: Kobe University Opitz G/BBB (Opitz) syndrome is a hereditary disorder that affects people in different ways, causing malformations in...
SMART: Facial recognition for molecular structures
Credit: Chen Zhang, Bill Gerwick An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has developed a...
‘Vampires’ may have been real people with this blood disorder
Porphyrias, a group of eight known blood disorders, affect the body’s molecular machinery for making heme, which is a component...
Changes in the vascular system may trigger Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: Laboratory of Neurobiology and Genetics at The Rockefeller University/Blood As the average age of Americans increases, so too does...
Mathematically modeling HIV drug pharmacodynamics
Credit: frenta / Masterfile 37 million people around the world today live with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which is responsible...
Citrus scion/rootstock combinations show tolerance to huanglongbing
FORT PIERCE, FL – The citrus disease huanglongbing (HLB) is endemic in Florida, where it is estimated that more than...
Breeding populations of white-naped cranes on decline in Eastern Mongolian stronghold
Ulaanbataar, Mongolia (July 7, 2016) – A new study by WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) says that breeding populations of white-naped...
BTI researcher elected to National Academy of Sciences
ITHACA, NY– Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute professor, USDA scientist and Cornell University adjunct professor of plant biology, has been...
Targeting bladder cancer’s Achilles heel: stem cells
Credit: Cancer Research Two different proteins work separately as well as synergistically to feed a small pool of stem cells...
NIH launches initiative to develop long-acting HIV treatment and…
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, launched a major initiative...
UTMB scientists genetically engineered world’s first Zika virus infectious cDNA…
A multidisciplinary team from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is the first in the world to genetically...
New UAlberta e-tool provides wake-up call for parents of children with excess weight
Credit: Alberta Innovates (Edmonton, AB.) Sometimes we see only the best in our kids — even when a potential health...
