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UTHealth Houston’s UTMOVE program receives distinguished Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders
UTHealth Houston’s Movement Disorders and Neurodegenerative Diseases Fellowship Training Program (UTMOVE fellowship program) has been chosen by The Michael J. Fox Foundation...
Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center finds CAR-T therapy effective in Black And Hispanic patients
April 28, 2022 (BRONX, NY)—CAR-T therapy, a form of immunotherapy that revs up T-cells to recognize and destroy cancer cells,...
New study finds climate change could spark the next pandemic
WASHINGTON — As the earth’s climate continues to warm, researchers predict wild animals will be forced to relocate their habitats...
Discovery of 30 exocomets in a young planetary system
For the past thirty years, the star β Pictoris has fascinated astronomers because it enables them to observe a planetary...
How brains form visual maps
Maps have played an important role in scientific progress. Claudius Ptolemaeus transformed our understanding of the world with his map...
Unravelling the origins of the human spine
The spinal column is the central supporting structure of the skeleton in all vertebrates. Not only does it provide a...
Mould, pesticides, toxic chemical exposures reported in survey of Canadian child care professionals
Nearly half of some 2,000 professionals in child care programs across Canada report unhealthy conditions for children, according to survey...
Huge new ichthyosaur, one of the largest animals ever, uncovered high in the Alps
Paleontologists have discovered sets of fossils representing three new ichthyosaurs that may have been among the largest animals to have...
Giant marine reptiles at 2,800 meters above sea level
The first ichthyosaurs swam through the primordial oceans in the early Triassic period about 250 million years ago. They had...
Gene mutations that contribute to head and neck cancer also provide “precision” treatment targets
AUGUSTA, Ga. (April 28, 2022) – About one-fifth of often deadly head and neck cancers harbor genetic mutations in a pathway...
Keysight and Singapore’s Quantum Engineering Programme to accelerate research, development and education in quantum technologies
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading provider of advanced design and validation solutions, and Singapore’s Quantum Engineering Programme (QEP)...
Hype up fitness to support kids’ health post-lockdowns
As COVID-19 reaches record levels in the UK, health experts are calling for a focus on children’s physical fitness as...
Non-invasive examination of conjunctival goblet cells in live rabbits
A Korean research team led by Professor Ki Hean Kim, Ph.D. candidates Seonghan Kim and Jungbin Lee (Department of Mechanical...
Give bidi cigarette rollers a voice to find new jobs, researchers say
India’s bidi cigarette workers need to be at the heart of discussions about finding alternatives to working in the tobacco...
An epigenetic cause of miscarriages is identified and cured in mice
Researchers led by Azusa Inoue at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan have discovered a gene...
How to help the medicine go down: how UMass Amherst scientists are helping to engineer the next generation of medications
AMHERST, Mass. – Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced that they have engineered a new class of...
Scientists implicate non-cardiac genes in congenital heart disease
CHAPEL HILL, NC – Inside embryonic cells, specific proteins control the rate at which genetic information is transcribed from DNA...
Zeroing in on a new treatment for autism and epilepsy
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—April 27, 2022—Children with Dravet syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy that begins in infancy, experience seizures, usually...
A refined microbiome “fingerprint” method tracks sub-strain variants of a single gut microbe strain
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Casey D. Morrow, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham previously developed a microbiome...
Neuronal plasticity in chronic pain-induced anxiety revealed
Hokkaido University researchers have shown how chronic pain leads to maladaptive anxiety in mice, with implications for treatment of chronic...
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