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Researchers identify potentially safer substitutes for BPA
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have identified a group of potential substitutes for bisphenol...
ASU-TGen led study identifies source of cell-specific change in Alzheimer’s disease
PHOENIX and TEMPE, Ariz. -- July 12, 2017 -- Researchers led by Arizona State University (ASU) and the Translational Genomics...
FSU researchers discover an ugly truth about attractiveness
Credit: Florida State University In today's appearance-driven world, body image can be a powerful influence on our choices and behaviors,...
Decline in financing could undermine malaria efforts
Global malaria elimination funding is declining at a time when it remains crucial to eliminating the disease worldwide, according to...
Females with autism show greater difficulty with day-to-day tasks than male counterparts
WASHINGTON--Women and girls with autism may face greater challenges with real world planning, organization and other daily living skills, according...
FSU researcher makes deep-sea coral reefs discovery in depths of the North-Pacific
Credit: Florida State University TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Scientists have long believed that the waters of the Central and Northeast Pacific...
Prior dengue infection does not increase Zika disease severity
Individuals who are infected by Zika virus after having dengue fever do not appear to become more severely ill than...
Advance furthers stem cells for use in drug discovery, cell therapy
Credit: Credit: William Daly, Eric Nguyen and Mike Schwartz, UW-Madison MADISON, Wisconsin - Since highly versatile human stem cells were...
Synchrotron light used to show human domestication of seeds from 2000 BC
Credit: Diamond Light Source Scientists from UCL have used the UK's synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, to document for the...
The biodiversity data journal Check List joins Pensoft’s open access portfolio
Credit: Check List and Pensoft The well-reputed and established journal Check List is the latest biodiversity-themed title to join scholarly...
Walking like ants gives spiders a chance
ITHACA, N.Y. - Humans aren't the only actors on the planet. To avoid being eaten, some jumping spiders pretend to...
Teen girls at higher risk OK with emergency department offering pregnancy prevention info
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON - Adolescent girls receiving a wide range of medical care in the Emergency Department...
The last survivors on Earth
The world's most indestructible species, the tardigrade, an eight-legged micro-animal, also known as the water bear, will survive until the...
How protein interactions drive cellular death
Researchers at the Universities of Tübingen and Konstanz, the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the Max Planck Institute of Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart,...
The end of aging? Targeting the underlying mechanisms for enhancing human healthspan
San Francisco, CA -- The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), http://www.afar.org, the world-renowned non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and...
Dementia prevention hopes raised by £1.9 million boost to scan study
(University of Edinburgh) Dementia researchers are to receive a £1.9 million investment to identify the earliest brain changes associated with...
Not all muscle building supplements are equal
Credit: University of Stirling Popular muscle building supplements, known as branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) are ineffective when taken in isolation,...
Ecological underpinnings of rural poverty
Credit: Upstream Alliance Deep in landlocked Africa, a miracle is unfolding. Less than a generation after a genocidal civil war...
New limits to functional portion of human genome reported
Credit: University of Houston An evolutionary biologist at the University of Houston has published new calculations that indicate no more...
£8.6 million awarded for global health research
(Queen Mary University of London) Researchers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have secured new awards totaling £8.6m to...
