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Repetitive elements shape embryonic chromatin landscape
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Retrotransposons are repetitive elements that form almost half of the...
UMass Amherst study of bee health finds no natural medicine in once-promising compound
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - A new study of possible self-medicating behavior in bumble bees conducted by researchers at...
Study corrects the record on the relative risk of Alzheimer’s between men and women
Credit: USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute White women whose genetic makeup puts them at higher risk for Alzheimer's disease...
NUS study: Deforestation in Cambodia linked to higher risk of ill health in young children
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have found that the loss of dense forest in Cambodia was associated...
Study paves the way for cancer treatments that might prevent relapses after radiotherapy
Credit: Sonia Jancar / University of São Paulo Whenever an organism is damaged, the cells surrounding the wound receive signals...
Delivers medicine to cancer cells while protecting healthy cells
Credit: NTNU Cancer treatments, including chemotherapy, have helped many of those who have been diagnosed with the disease to go...
3.7 million project for the next generation of brain tumor researchers
(University of Plymouth) A pan-European initiative led by the University of Plymouth designed to train the next generation of brain...
Heart hormones protect against obesity and insulin resistance
Credit: Michael Cairns Orlando, Fla., Aug. 25, 2017 - Researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) in Lake...
Given the choice, zebrafish willingly dose themselves with opioids
Credit: University of Utah Health As the opioid crisis escalates, the science behind addiction remains poorly understood. To address this...
10 million reasons that treatment of cancers caused by viruses may advance
New Orleans. LA - The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded LSU Health New Orleans a $10 million...
Microbes compete for nutrients, affect metabolism, development in mice
Credit: Bryce Richter/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- "Gut bacteria get to use a lot of our food before we do," says...
From plant odorant detection to sex pheromone communication
Biologists at Lund University in Sweden are now able to show that the receptors enabling the primitive moth species, Eriocrania...
CWRU awarded funding to understand how plant particle stimulates anti-tumor response
Nicole Steinmetz, PhD, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, member of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Center for...
Faster, more precise, more stable: Study optimizes graphene growth
Credit: Photo: J. Kraus/ TUM Each atomic layer thin, tear-resistant, and stable. Graphene is seen as the material of the...
Trash to treasure: The benefits of waste-to-energy technologies
Credit: Shutterstock/Argonne National Laboratory Instead of hauling food waste to landfills, we might want to use that organic waste to...
Millions of novel genetic variants found in 1000 Swedish individuals
An extensive exercise to map genetic variation in Sweden has found 33 million genetic variants, 10 million of which are...
Dancing can reverse the signs of aging in the brain
As we grow older we suffer a decline in mental and physical fitness, which can be made worse by conditions...
New wrapping material enables high quality bioimaging
(Hokkaido University) A nanosheet made of organic polymers has been developed to prevent the drying and deforming of biological samples,...
NSF awards CCNY-led team inaugural convergence research grant
Credit: Ana Carnaval City College of New York biodiversity expert Ana Carnaval co-heads an interdisciplinary team of scientists that won...
A Galápagos seabird’s population expected to shrink with ocean warming
(Wake Forest University) Within the next century, rising ocean temperatures around the Galápagos Islands are expected to make the water...
