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UTSW reports highest-resolution model to date of brain receptor behind marijuana’s high
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS, Nov. 16, 2016 - Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center report the most detailed...
Scripps Florida scientists pinpoint regulator of amphetamine induced motor activity
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute (Photo by James McEntee.) JUPITER, FL - November 15, 2016 - In new findings that...
Astronomers unveil ‘heart’ of Eta Carinae
An international team of astronomers has imaged the Eta Carinae star system in the greatest detail ever. Eta Carinae is...
RIT researchers fix Landsat 8 imagery, measurements with ‘innovative’ algorithm
Rochester Institute of Technology researchers have solved a problem nagging NASA's Landsat 8 Earth-sensing satellite. Stray light in the thermal...
New international recognition for professor Federico Rosei
Professor Federico Rosei, who is also the director of the INRS Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Center, has been elected a...
Some hog workers developing drug-resistant skin infections
New Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health-led research suggests that some workers at industrial hog production facilities are not...
Large forest die-offs can have effects that ricochet to distant ecosystems
Credit: Abigail Swann/University of Washington Major forest die-offs due to drought, heat and beetle infestations or deforestation could have consequences...
Acoustic buoy now detecting rare & endangered whales in New York Bight
Credit: CREDIT: A.H. Kopelman for CRESLI. New York (November 16, 2016) - An acoustic buoy recently deployed by the Woods...
Study reveals impacts of climate warming and declining sea ice on Arctic whale migration
Credit: Vicki Beaver, NOAA Declines in the Arctic sea ice are arguably the most dramatic evidence of the effects of...
Matchmaking for coffee?
Credit: Marcos José Perdoná Americans drink 400 million cups of coffee a day. Where does all of that coffee come...
Nanopolymer-modified protein array can pinpoint hard-to-find cancer biomarker
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University biochemist has developed a novel method for detecting certain types of proteins that...
Researchers receive Patent for Humanity award
Malaria has killed more people than any disease caused by a single organism, including small pox and the plague. Symptoms...
New gene-editing technology partially restores vision in blind animals
Loading video... Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(November 16, 2016) Salk Institute researchers have discovered a holy grail of gene editing--the...
Looking for a city’s DNA? Try its ATMs
Automated teller machine keypads in New York City hold microbes from human skin, household surfaces, or traces of food, a...
LSU Health New Orleans reports innovations in defining sources of GI bleeding
New Orleans, LA - A team of physicians at LSU Health New Orleans has found that endoscopy combined with the...
New hydrogel can take organoids from dish to clinic
Credit: N. Gjorevski/EPFL EPFL scientists have developed a gel for growing miniaturized body organs that can be used in clinical...
Mutation that triggered multicellular life altered protein flexibility
Credit: Courtesy of Kenneth Prehoda EUGENE, Ore. -- Nov. 16, 2016 -- Just as a boat can be driven off...
TSRI researchers show how circadian ‘clock’ may influence cancer pathway
Credit: Madeline McCurry-Schmidt LA JOLLA, CA - November 16, 2016 - A new study led by scientists at The Scripps...
GW researchers receive $2.2 million grant to study HERV expression in cancer
WASHINGTON (Nov. 16, 2016) - George Washington University (GW) researchers received a $2.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute...
Chronically ill women underusing online self-care resources, study shows
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Barriers to internet use may be preventing chronically ill middle-aged and older women from being as healthy...
