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Public confused by climate change messages
Experts, charities, the media and government confuse the public by speaking "different languages" on climate change, a new study says....
Yale chemists forge a new path in the search for antibiotics
Credit: Michael S. Helfenbein New Haven, Conn. - Yale University scientists have developed a novel chemical process that may lead...
Scientists give tumor-fighting cells a boost in battling bone marrow cancer
Researchers from Belgium led by Prof. Dirk Elewaut of the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research and the team of Prof....
Tobacco the ‘silent killer’ of HIV patients, say researchers
Researchers at the University of York have shown that tobacco use is more common among HIV positive individuals than HIV...
Auditory perception: Where microseconds matter
In the mammalian auditory system, sound waves impinging on the tympanic membrane of the ear are transduced into electrical signals...
Wayne State awarded over $460K from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund
DETROIT - Three research teams at Wayne State University recently received grants totaling $460,305 from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund...
Mice exposed to prenatal stress are predisposed to eating disorders later in life
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Stress affects the body and can trigger illness -- from psychiatric disorders to heart disease....
Cholesterol — a key player at the lung surface
Cholesterol, a naturally occurring compound at the lung surface, has been shown to have a clear effect on the properties...
Revealed: New step in plant mastermind hormone’s pathway
Credit: Courtesy of Jiaying Zhu. Stanford, CA--Plants are stationary. This means that the way they grow must be highly internally...
Ethnicity and breastfeeding influence infant gut bacteria
Credit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (June 1, 2017) - The bacteria in a child's gut appears to be influenced as...
Gene finding to eradicate severe blistering disorder of the skin found in dogs
Credit: Hannes Lohi research group Researchers at the University of Helsinki have identified a novel gene defect that causes a...
Immunology: How ancestry shapes our immune cells
Virtually the entire population of sub-Saharan Africa, and some 70% of African Americans, carry a gene variant (allele) which results...
Professor Michael Sieweke awarded the Humboldt Professorship at TU Dresden
(Technische Universität Dresden) The selection committee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has followed the nomination of TU Dresden and...
Omega-3 fatty acid stops lupus trigger, but how?
EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State University scientists have received a $2.3 million, five-year National Institutes of Health grant to...
The Spanish plant that was classified by mistake
Credit: Manuel Becerra Surprisingly, there are still plant species waiting to be discovered in the Iberian Peninsula. Some are detected...
Phagocytes in the brain: Good or bad?
The precise impact of the microglia in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's remains unclear. In the brain, microglial...
Pollution ‘devastating’ China’s vital ecosystem, research shows
The startling extent to which man-made pollution is devastating China's vital ecosystem's ability to offset damaging carbon emissions has been...
New consensus document for appropriate use of drug testing in clinical addiction medicine
June 1, 2017 - A new Consensus Document from the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) provides practical, evidence-based recommendations...
Physicists create ‘molecular black hole’ using ultra-intense X-ray pulses
Credit: DESY/Science Communication Lab MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- Heavy atoms absorbing X-rays are sucking the electrons from their molecular neighbors like...
Newly identified microbial process could reduce toxic methylmercury levels
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn. May 31, 2017 - A team led by the Department...
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