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Children of mothers with type 1 diabetes have a higher body mass index
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Children of mothers with type 1 diabetes are at significantly...
Material formed from crab shells and trees could replace flexible plastic packaging
Credit: Brice Zimmerman, Georgia Tech From liquid laundry detergent packaged in cardboard to compostable plastic cups, consumer products these days...
New biotech graduate certificate program at USC bridges biology and business
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - July 23, 2018 - Getting new therapies to patients requires collaboration at the bench, the bedside,...
Build an ark? biologists discuss conservation prioritization
Credit: Florent Mazel LOGAN, UTAH, USA -- Conservation biologists recognize a sobering reality. "We're losing species left, right and center,"...
Enabling technology in cell-based therapies: Scale-up, scale-out or program in-place
Credit: Coleman Murray, University of California, Los Angeles Technologies that are reducing costs and changing the ways in which researchers...
Mandate patient access to primary care medical records
Canada's provincial governments should mandate patient access to their electronic medical records, argue authors of a commentary in CMAJ (Canadian...
We can feed the world if we change our ways
Current crop yields could provide nutritious food for the projected 2050 global population, but only if we make radical changes...
A promising approach to translational research on stem cells for Parkinson’s disease
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 23, 2018--A major factor underlying Parkinson's Disease (PD) pathology is...
Scientists get first look at T cell responses in Ebola virus survivors
Scientists conducting the first comprehensive study of key immune system cells-collected from West African Ebola survivors-that kill Ebola infected cells...
Study shows how the brain controls food cravings
A newly published study from the University of Waterloo shows that when activity in a specific part of the brain...
Emergency departments can be an effective venue for Hepatitis C virus testing
Boston Medical Center has shown that testing for the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) outside the typical high-risk population can be...
UTSA researcher receives $1.9 million HHS grant to develop anti-fungal vaccine
(SAN ANTONIO, July 23, 2018) -- Chiung-Yu Hung, assistant professor of biology at The University of Texas at San Antonio...
Gene study pinpoints superbug link between people and animals
Scientists have shed light on how a major cause of human and animal disease can jump between species, by studying...
The shape in water: First nanoscale measurements of biomolecule folding in liquid
Credit: NIST Tinkering with a method they helped develop over the last few years, scientists have for the first time...
Exhaled e-vapor particles evaporate in seconds — new study
Credit: Fontem Ventures Amsterdam, July 23rd 2018 - A new peer-reviewed study published in the prestigious journal Nicotine & Tobacco...
Breast cancer fuelled by mysterious Yin Yang protein
Credit: Imperial College London Scientists have unveiled clues about a mysterious molecule called Yin Yang1 - and revealed it may...
Study finds flushing water lines protects inconsistently and may increase lead exposure
New Orleans, LA - Research conducted by LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health finds that the current recommendations...
FIND and DNDi support Malaysian MOH to simplify and decentralize HCV screening & treatment
Initiative in Malaysia to enhance country's public health approach to hepatitis C Decentralized screening for hepatitis C virus (HCV) using...
Eight new mouse models for Alzheimer’s disease available to researchers
Credit: Courtesy of The Jackson Laboratory The MODEL-AD Center, an ambitious project to develop and distribute precise mouse models of...
Imaging in living cells reveals how ‘junk DNA’ switches on a gene
Credit: Hongtao Chen, Princeton University Researchers have captured video showing how pieces of DNA once thought to be useless can...
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