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Ben-Gurion U. researchers pinpoint child-pedestrian behaviors that lead to auto accidents
BEER-SHEVA, Israel…December 21, 2015 – "Look both ways before you cross the street" may be sage advice, but it is...
Novel technologies reveal key information about depleted east pacific green sea turtles
Credit: Cali Turner Tomaszewicz Populations of green sea turtles living in the eastern region of the Pacific Ocean have rebounded...
Protein complex prevents genome instability
Credit: Miki Shinohara An international collaboration between Osaka University and the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) in Switzerland...
Powerful new technique can clone thousands of genes at once
Credit: Jennifer E. Fairman/Johns Hopkins University Scientists at Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, the University of Trento in Italy, and Harvard Medical...
Mini-intestine grown in a test tube for nutritional research
This news release is available in German. Research efforts on the intestine have increased in recent years. Owing to its...
How yeast cells regulate their fat balance
Credit: GU FRANKFURT. Not only humans but also each of their body cells must watch their fat balance. Fats perform...
Lessons from Ebola: New approach improves disease outbreak management
Credit: CDC A new approach to information gathering could allow scientists to quickly identify the most effective way to manage...
Good as gold
Few experiences invoke as much anxiety as a call from your doctor saying “you need to come back for more...
Size matters: How thrips choose their partners
Credit: Stephanie Krüger / MLU The bigger the male, the higher his chances to successfully mate – this applies, at...
Ribosomes found to induce somatic cell pluripotency
Credit: Associate Professor Kunimasa Ohta In 2012, a Japanese research group discovered that human skin cells acquire pluripotency when introduced...
New book on The Cytoskeleton from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Credit: The specimen was prepared and imaged by Rosmarie Suetterlin and Cora-Ann Schoenenberger at the Maurice E. Muller Institute for...
Kidney transplants: White blood cells control virus replication
Credit: University of Basel, Department of Biomedicine Certain white blood cells play an important role in bringing a harmful virus...
Circulating tumor cells associated with relapse in late-stage melanoma patients
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center A study revealing a connection between circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and relapse in stage IV...
Nature’s smallest rainbows, created by peacock spiders, may inspire new optical…
Credit: Dr. Jürgen C. Otto, co-author Brightly colored Australian peacock spiders (Maratus spp.) captivate even the most arachnophobic viewers with...
In urban streams, pharmaceutical pollution is driving microbial resistance
Credit: Sylvia Lee (Millbrook, NY) In urban streams, persistent pharmaceutical pollution can cause aquatic microbial communities to become resistant to...
Fanged friends: World’s most vilified and dangerous animals may be humankind’s best ally
Credit: Julie Larsen Maher/WCS NEW YORK (January 18, 2018) – An international review led by the University of Queensland and...
Immunotherapy drug nearly eliminates severe acute graft-versus-host disease
Credit: Seattle Children's SEATTLE – Dec. 9, 2017 – Results from a phase 2 clinical trial, presented by Seattle Children's...
Immunotherapy drug nearly eliminates severe acute graft-versus-host disease
Credit: Seattle Children's SEATTLE – Dec. 9, 2017 – Results from a phase 2 clinical trial, presented by Seattle Children's...
A new index for the diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Credit: © DZD/IDM Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease has become a global epidemic. There is not only a great interest worldwide...
In vitro tests of Vype vapor reveal no cell stress, DNA damage or cell transformation
A series of cell-based tests developed to compare the biological impact of cigarette smoke with e-cigarette vapour revealed no activity...
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