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New Jersey Health Foundation awards three grants to Kessler Foundation to advance cognitive and mobility research in neurological disabilities
East Hanover, NJ. July 20, 2022. Each year, New Jersey Health Foundation (NJHF) accepts applications for grants for research projects...
Mammals were not the first to be warm-blooded
Endothermy, or warm-bloodedness, is the ability of mammals and birds to produce their own body heat and control their body...
Human eggs remain healthy for decades by putting ‘batteries on standby mode’
Immature human egg cells skip a fundamental metabolic reaction thought to be essential for generating energy, according to the findings...
New fossil shows four-legged fishapod that returned to the water while Tiktaalik ventured onto land
A meme has been circulating online during the pandemic featuring Tiktaalik roseae, the iconic, four-legged “fishapod” that first made the...
Making a memory positive or negative
LA JOLLA—(July 20, 2022) Researchers at the Salk Institute and colleagues have discovered the molecule in the brain responsible for...
With just a tablespoon of blood, B.C. researchers aim to transform cancer treatment
Researchers at the Vancouver Prostate Centre have developed a new blood test that provides unprecedented insight into a patient’s cancer...
The size of mammal ancestors’ ear canals reveal when warm-bloodedness evolved
One of the things that makes mammals, mammals is that we’re warm-blooded-- our bodies have high metabolisms that maintain our...
How to inhibit photoreceptor death? A new way to fight pigmentary retinopathy
Why do photoreceptors in the retina die? Can this process be inhibited? Research conducted by an international team of scientists,...
IVI and Moderna sign memorandum of understanding for vaccine research and development
July 20, 2022, SEOUL, Republic of Korea – The International Vaccine Institute (IVI), an international organization with a mission to...
Melanoma thickness equally hard for algorithms and dermatologists to judge
Assessing the thickness of melanoma is difficult, whether done by an experienced dermatologist or a well-trained machine-learning algorithm. A study...
New findings reveal how neurons build and maintain their capacity to communicate
The nervous system works because neurons communicate across connections called synapses. They “talk” when calcium ions flow through channels into...
Learning to fight infection
Tokyo, Japan – Scientific advancements have often been held back by the need for high volumes of data, which can...
Did our ancestors have better microbiomes? For maize, maybe!
At today’s backyard barbeques, we enjoy corn on the cob with hundreds of sweet juicy kernels. But if we were...
Climate and conflict
An extended period of turmoil in the prehistoric Maya city of Mayapan, in the Yucatan region of Mexico, was marked...
Worms as a model for personalized medicine
Tailoring a person’s diet or medicine based on their genomes has been a goal of the medical community for decades,...
Rattlesnakes diversify venom to stay ahead of evolving prey
A new study by a team that includes biologists from The University of Texas at Arlington describes how rattlesnakes diversify...
Mark Anderson, renowned cardiac expert and medical leader, named to lead University of Chicago Medicine
Mark Anderson, MD, PhD, a renowned scholar, physician and caregiver, has been appointed to lead the University of Chicago’s field-defining...
BETting on COVID-19: Study probes role of BET proteins in coronavirus infection
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—A while ago, some researchers had suggested that blocking a set of proteins, known as bromodomain and extraterminal...
Songbird can keep time with the best of them
When it comes to keeping time, an unassuming species of songbird is on a par with professional musicians, according to...
Go with the flow: New findings about moving electricity could improve fusion devices
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have found that updating a mathematical model...
