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Discovering what makes organelles connect could help understand neurodegenerative diseases
Credit: Images acquired by Ginam Cho. Inside every cell is a complex infrastructure of organelles carrying out different functions. Organelles...
With extra sugar, leaves get fat too
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Eat too much without exercising and you'll probably put on a few pounds. As it...
Prenatal weight talks are easier with props
Allina Health study shows prenatal weight talks are easier with props Significant improvements in communication between providers and patients surrounding...
Bone marrow concentrate improves joint transplants
Credit: Justin Kelley, University of Missouri Health Biologic joint restoration using donor tissue instead of traditional metal and plastic may...
Discovered: Gene associated with schizophrenia risk regulates early brain development
Credit: Yingwei Mao lab, Penn State University University Park, PA -- A gene associated with the risk of schizophrenia regulates...
UW to host $15.6M NSF-funded center for innovation, education in materials science
Credit: Matt Hagen/UW Clean Energy Institute The University of Washington is home to a new national center of excellence for...
New open-access journal Metabarcoding & Metagenomics joins the lines of publisher Pensoft
Credit: Metabarcoding and Metagenomics and Pensoft A new innovative open-access academic journal Metabarcoding and Metagenomics (MBMG) is launched to welcome...
Click beetles inspire design of self-righting robots
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Robots perform many tasks that humans can't or don't want to...
Drug targeting technique could aid therapies for immune diseases
A new technique that targets drugs to specific cells could lead to improved therapies for diseases caused by an overactive...
UW to host $15.6 million NSF-funded center for innovation, education in materials science
Credit: Matt Hagen/UW Clean Energy Institute The University of Washington is home to a new national center of excellence for...
UTSA receives $350,000 grant for prostate cancer research
Jing Yong Ye, professor of biomedical engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has received a two-year,...
Holograms for molecules
Credit: ETH Zurich / Andreas Frutiger Much can be detected in blood or urine: viral illnesses, metabolic disorders or autoimmune...
Brain damage in fish affected by plastic nanoparticles
Calculations have shown that 10 per cent of all plastic produced around the world ultimately ends up in the oceans....
Lactation hormone also helps a mother’s brain
The same hormone that stimulates milk production for lactation, also acts in the brain to help establish the nurturing link...
MRI contrast agent locates and distinguishes aggressive from slow-growing breast cancer
Credit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND--A new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent being tested by researchers at Case Western...
Neuro Kinetics awarded patents for eye testing and I-PAS virtual reality for medical diagnostics
(Neuro Kinetics, Inc.) Among three new US patents awarded to Neuro Kinetics is protection for its I-PAS design, a highly...
Getting the measure of mud
Credit: Credit: NASA via Flickr Researchers have found a way to chart changes in the speed of deep-ocean currents using...
Brain guides body much sooner than previously believed
Credit: Celia Herrera-Rincon/Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (Sept. 25, 2017) -- The brain plays an active and essential role much earlier...
Scientists discover genes are controlled by ‘nano footballs’
Research at the University of York has revealed that genes are controlled by 'nano footballs' - structures that look like...
Metabolism directly impacts the odds of developing malaria
Credit: Maria Mota lab, iMM Lisboa Researchers from Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) Lisboa have found that the host's susceptibility...
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