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Credit: Gil Costa A new study in mice shows that increasing serotonin, one of the major mediators of brain communication,...

Ubiquitous and influential

Credit: Graphic: Sonja Lorenz The small protein ubiquitin regulates a plethora of physiological and pathophysiological processes in the human body....

Better health for women involved in clinical trials

Women who participate in obstetric and gynaecology clinical trials experience improved health outcomes compared to those who are not involved...

Two months left to register for The International Liver CongressTM 2017

With just over two months to go until The International Liver Congress™ (ILC) 2017, it's time to register for your...

Tiny magnetic implant offers new drug delivery method

Credit: UBC University of British Columbia researchers have developed a magnetic drug implant--the first of its kind in Canada--that could...

Taking a high-priced cancer drug with a low-fat meal can cut cost by 75 percent

Taking one-fourth the standard dose of a widely used drug for prostate cancer with a low-fat breakfast can be as...

Using high-resolution satellites to measure African farm yields

(Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences ) By using high-res images taken by the latest generation of compact...

Mutant maize offers key to understanding plant growth

Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- How plant cells divide and how that contributes to plant growth has been...

Drug developed at University of Minnesota increases survival in dogs with cancer

Credit: University of Minnesota A breakthrough trial at the University of Minnesota testing a new UMN-developed drug resulted in improved...

Chip could make voice control ubiquitous in electronics

The butt of jokes as little as 10 years ago, automatic speech recognition is now on the verge of becoming...

New method to detect ultrasound with light

Credit: Cheng Sun A tiny, transparent device that can fit into a contact lens has a bright future, potentially helping...

Perimeter Institute researchers apply machine learning to condensed matter physics

February 13, 2017 (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) - A machine learning algorithm designed to teach computers how to recognize photos, speech...

X-ray pulses reveal structure of viral cocoon

Credit: Credit: Dominik Oberthuer, CFEL/DESY An international team of scientists has used high-intensity X-ray pulses to determine the structure of...

Researchers engineer ‘thubber,’ a stretchable rubber that packs a thermal conductive punch