Health
Bean tree plan to protect Amazon
Credit: Toby Pennington Amazon deforestation could be slowed by planting bean trees that would keep soils fertile and help smallholders...
New polysomnography electrode set enables easy at-home assessment of sleep bruxism
Credit: Tomi Miettinen An easy-to-use electrode set can assess sleep bruxism severity as well as a conventional polysomnography, a new...
Can the design of a building improve the creative output of its occupants?
New study published in Creativity Research Journal shows Maharishi Vastu architecture increased workplace creativityCredit: Ron Blunt A ground-breaking study published...
Newly discovered virus infects bald eagles across America
Credit: UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Researchers have discovered a previously unknown virus infecting nearly a third of America's bald eagle...
Training social workers in fight against opioids
$1.3 million federal grant helps UTA offer students training in addiction treatmentCredit: Elizabeth Couch, The University of Texas at Arlington...
Journal of Women’s Health Reports launching January 2020
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 17, 2018 - Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers announces the...
Research gauges neurodegeneration tied to FXTAS by measuring motor behavior
Credit: McKinney et al LAWRENCE -- The neurological disorder FXTAS (pronounced "fax-tas") stems from a genetic premutation seen in one...
An evolution in the understanding of evolution
New modeling tool has implications for better understanding of diseaseCredit: UVA Engineering Remember domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus,...
NIH continues support of Kent State Alzheimer’s researcher with new two-year grant
Credit: Kent State University Once it begins, Alzheimer's disease progresses systematically and aggressively, attacking victims on multiple fronts. But scientists...
WVU researcher studies link between caffeine, sleep and alcohol use in middle-schoolers
Credit: West Virginia University Research into young people's drinking habits tends to focus on high school and college students. Middle...
Dr. Talia Golan named recipient of the Mort and Brigitte Harris Pancreas Cancer Award
Credit: Talia Golan, M.D. The Henry Ford Pancreatic Cancer Center (HFPCC) and Henry Ford Innovation Institute have named Talia Golan,...
Deet gives humans an ‘invisibilty cloak’ to fend off mosquito bites
DEET may chemically 'cloak' humans from malaria-carrying mosquitos, rather than repel themCredit: Christopher Potter Since its invention during the Second...
BARseq builds a better brain map
Credit: Zador lab/CSHL, 2019 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Professor Anthony Zador has taken the next step in his quest to...
Green areas in cities promote wellbeing
Interdisciplinary study identifies neural correlates -- potential for preventing psychic diseases -- publication in Nature NeuroscienceCredit: Gabi Zachmann, KIT Green...
Dementia and eating disorders: it is a problem of (semantic) memory
New research sheds light on the possible origin of eating disorders in patients suffering from dementiaCredit: Trice Browne on Visual...
AAIH releases primer to advance understanding within the industry
Technical whitepaper, as well as a high-level overview, seek to define a foundational lexicon and illustrate real-world applications of this...
Faulty signalling pathway linked to congenital heart condition
Faulty signalling pathway causes the heart to develop unnaturally while in the embryo stage, according to Duke-NUS Medical School researchersCredit:...
Leading children’s hospitals to use $8.5 million+ grant to advance collaboration in genomics research
Building a genomics 'information commons' will enable more medical centers to share growing volumes of dataCredit: Boston Children's Hospital With...
Pitt study: Sexual selection alone could spark formation of new species
Animals that seek mates and fight rivals that resemble parents could eventually set stage for new speciesCredit: Richards-Zawacki Lab PITTSBURGH--A...
Drug treats inflammation associated with genetic heart disease
Credit: Circulation When young athletes experiences sudden cardiac death as they run down the playing field, it's usually due to...
