Biology
UBC researchers test new technique to help with concussion diagnosis
Credit: UBC Okanagan Sports-related concussions are a major public health concern and are notoriously difficult to diagnose. But new research...
Farming, cheese, chewing changed human skull shape
Credit: David Katz and Tim Weaver, UC Davis The advent of farming, especially dairy products, had a small but significant...
Fantastic beasts and why to conserve them
According to a new study, by the University of Leeds and Cardiff University, the conservation of threatened species has much...
Researchers discover cancer stem cell pathway in endometrial cancer
A team of Cleveland Clinic researchers have discovered a key pathway that leads to recurrence and treatment resistance in endometrial...
ASU/Biodesign researchers enter race for early Alzheimer’s test
Credit: Graphic by Jason Drees for the Biodesign institute According to Paul Coleman, an Alzheimer's researcher at the ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative...
Baby boomer squirrels master tricky timing
Credit: Anni Hämäläinen Female squirrels who align their reproduction to take advantage of food-rich years and align have more pups...
Finding what fuels the ‘runaway train’ of autoimmune disease
Credit: Carroll lab/Boston Children's Hospital A newly-unveiled discovery, which has been four years in the making, has the potential to...
Plant ‘smells’ insect foe, initiates defense
Credit: Nick Sloff, Penn State It cannot run away from the fly that does it so much damage, but tall...
Potential impacts of planned Andean Amazon dams outweigh benefits, scientists say
Credit: Ian Bell New York - August 23, 2017 - An international team of scientists investigating the effects of six...
Scientists develop novel ‘dot’ system to improve cancer detection
Credit: Kristen Cusato La Jolla, Calif., August 24, 2017 - Researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) have...
Studies explore the potential benefits of red raspberries
Lynden, WA - August 24, 2017 - Initial findings from several studies - including both human subjects and animals -...
Researchers closer to understanding how a drug could induce health benefits of exercise
The research team - led by the University of Leeds - has found that a protein called Piezo1 in the...
Scientists from the MSU adjusted a microalgal technology for wast
Members of the Faculty of Biology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University have proved that under Nordic conditions wastewaters could...
Brain recovery longer than clinical recovery among athletes following concussion, new research suggests
Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, August 24, 2017--University athletes with a recent concussion had changes in their brain...
New biomedical engineering grants aim at heart failure and resistant high blood pressure
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Biomedical engineering researchers will attack two banes of cardiovascular disease -- heart failure after heart...
Researchers report better way to create organic bioelectronics
Credit: Credit:Milad Khorrami & Mohammad Reza Abidian, University of Houston With increasing scientific and medical interest in communication with the...
Research reveals how estrogen regulates gene expression
Credit: Yi et al, Molecular Cell, August 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2017.07.026/The O'Malley lab and the Chiu lab/ Baylor College of Medicine... Estrogen...
As Tolstoy noted (sort of), all unhappy microbiomes are unhappy in their own way
CORVALLIS, Ore. - The bacterial communities that live inside everyone are quite similar and stable when times are good, but...
New therapeutic antibody for dog cancers
Credit: Maekawa N. et al., Scientific Reports, Aug. 21, 2017 Similar to our aging society, dogs live longer than before...
Metal simplifies synthesis of antibody drugs
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Aug. 24, 2017) - Rice University scientists have developed a method to efficiently modify...
