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Portland State receives $1m grant to aid STEM transfer students
Portland State University faculty have received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to help students transferring from...
Social status influences infection risk and disease-induced mortality
Credit: Sarah Benhaiem/Leibniz-IZW Spotted hyena cubs of high-ranking mothers have a lower probability of infection with and are more likely...
Study advances research in pelvic organ prolapse among women
By measuring the sagging of the vaginal walls in more than a thousand volunteers for up to nine years annually,...
People with depression have stronger emotional responses to negative memories
Philadelphia, March 6, 2018 - People with major depressive disorder (MDD) feel more negative emotion when remembering painful experiences than...
Environmental exposures more determinant of respiratory health than inherited genetics
Toronto (March 6, 2018) - Researchers have found strong evidence that environmental exposures, including air pollution, affect gene expressions associated...
Photosynthesis originated a billion years earlier than we thought, study shows
Credit: Elsevier London, March 6, 2018 - Ancient microbes may have been producing oxygen through photosynthesis a billion years earlier...
Major step found in cellular response to stress caused by pathological insult
PHILADELPHIA - (March 6, 2018) - A new study conducted by researchers at The Wistar Institute revealed how a key...
Why the latest shingles vaccine is more than 90 percent effective
Credit: Westmead Institute for Medical Research A new study has shown how the body's immune system responds to the new...
Texas A&M chemists use technology to decode language of lipid-protein interaction
Credit: Laganowsky Laboratory, Texas A&M University Technology has a massive impact on our day-to-day lives, right down to the cellular...
Many small differences contribute to a large variation
Drugs are not equally effective for everyone. To some extent, this is due to the fact that people's bodies will...
Paying attention as the eyes move
Credit: Photo: DPZ During daily life, we routinely pay attention to a few important objects in our visual scene. We...
Who’s a good boy? Why ‘dog-speak’ is important for bonding with your pet
Scientists at the University of York have shown that the way we speak to our canine friends is important in...
Spicing it up: High school students may prefer seasoned veggies over plain
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- High school students prefer vegetables seasoned with herbs and spices, rather than plain veggies, according to...
Determining the cause of difficult-to-control mitochondrial diseases
Credit: Associate Professor Wei Fan-Yan A Japanese research group has discovered that taurine is conjugated with mitochondrial transfer RNAs (tRNAs),...
Number of paid sick days directly impacts how Americans use preventive care like flu shots
Credit: Florida Atlantic University How much is enough? That is what researchers from Florida Atlantic University and Cleveland State University...
How the diagnosing of lung diseases can be improved
Credit: Stepan Likhachev Three-dimensional visualization based on computer tomography imaging provides more thorough preparation for the diagnosis of lung diseases....
Scientists found a way to postpone cell death
Credit: Vladimir Gogvadze A team of scientists from MSU and the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics of Russian Academy...
Low blood sugar poses unaddressed threat to people with type 2 diabetes
WASHINGTON--New research from the Endocrine Society and Avalere Health finds that clinicians lack the resources to identify, assess and manage...
Bentham Science publishes sixth volume of the book series, Topics in Anti-Cancer Research
Bentham Science Publishers has published the sixth volume of its patent book series, Topics in Anti-Cancer Research. The book series...
Provide stroke patients with palliative care support minus the label
When caring for stroke patients, health care providers should focus on the social and emotional issues facing patients, rather than...
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