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UK’s voluntary pledge to provide calorie content information for alcoholic drinks fails to make significant progress
Philadelphia, PA, June 14, 2017 - Alcoholic beverage producers and retailers in the UK are failing to provide consumers with...
Speed limit study set to reveal if twenty is plenty on city streets
The impact of 20mph speed limits is to be evaluated in a major study in two British cities. Casualties and...
USDA announces more than $9 million to address critical water resources issues
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 14, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today...
Physicists and medics discover new ability of immune cells
Credit: Andrew Ekpenyong, PhD Omaha, Neb., (June 14, 2017) -- A major discovery about a set of immune cells, published...
A new test to detect reliably an autoimmune disease
In autoimmune diseases, the immune system wrongly identifies its "enemy", and produces antibodies that attack the patient's own cells. One...
Earning a living in a changing climate — the plant perspective
Credit: Trinity College Dublin. There are many ways to make a living in a suitable climate but far fewer in...
Child Mind Institute’s Healthy Brain Network releases open dataset
The Child Mind Institute today announced the release of the first dataset from the groundbreaking Healthy Brain Network study, and...
The soft touch
What do ketchup, silly putty, leaves, glue, cloth and our bodies have in common? They all fall under the category...
Music sessions can help millions who struggle to speak to lead a richer life
Credit: Plymouth Music Zone/University of Plymouth Tailored music sessions could be crucial in transforming the lives of millions of people...
Rules of the neural roads: Traffic control in your synapses
Credit: OIST While the mechanism of transmission of information at the contact point between two neurons -- the famous synapse...
The glue that keeps cells together
Credit: (Picture: Susanne Fenz) Controlled adhesion and division are crucial for our body's cells. This is the case, for instance,...
Peer-led self-management programs may not help teenagers with asthma
A study from the University of Warwick suggests peer-led self-management programmes have little impact on the quality of life or...
Statins may not be used for protection against Parkinson’s disease
Use of statins may speed up the onset of Parkinson's disease symptoms in people who are susceptible to the disease,...
New light shed on dynamics of type IV pili and twitching motility
Credit: Nishizaka Lab, Gakushuin University Type IV pili (T4P) are fascinating supermolecular machines that drive twitching motility, protein secretion, and...
Improved accuracy when testing cancer drugs
Credit: Portrait: Cecilia Hedström A method to more accurately test anti-cancer drugs has now been developed at the Sahlgrenska Academy,...
Body fat and waist size linked to increased risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis in women
Madrid, Spain, June 14, 2017: The results of a population study presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology...
Previous bacterial infection increases risk of newly-diagnosed Sjögren’s syndrome
(European League Against Rheumatism) The results of a study presented today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology 2017 have...
12th Annual Symposium of the Penn Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology
PHILADELPHIA - Several critical periods over a human life span - including before birth -- determine when individuals are the...
Influenza virus can overcome potentially crippling mutations
LA JOLLA, CA - June 14, 2017 - Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have shown that for the...
A new mutation in kidney disease
Credit: Yamamoto et al., Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (2017), doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfx083 Medullary cystic kidney disease type 1 (MCKD1) is a rare...
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