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Virtual reality takes a leap into taste
Credit: Diogo Matias, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown The fly hasn't eaten for an entire day and it's starving. Finally,...
Plant-based diet leads to Crohn’s Disease remission, according to case study
Eating a plant-based diet may be an effective treatment for Crohn's disease, according to a case study published in the...
Combination of drugs may combat deadly drug-resistant fungus
BIDMC researchers use unique method to test multiple combinations for efficacy BOSTON - As health officials in New Jersey, Illinois...
A new drug target for chemically induced Parkinson’s disease
Researchers believe an enzyme targeted to the neuronal mitochondria may be responsible for converting compounds from alcohol, tobacco, and certain...
Immunology — not just supporting actors
Non-classical monocytes were long thought to play a purely surveillance role in the immune system. With the aid of a...
Reforming pharmacy benefit manager practices may lead to drug cost savings
Credit: UNC School of Medicine CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina -- Efforts to control health care costs in the United States...
Researchers report new understanding of thermoelectric materials
Discovery leads to promising new materials for converting waste heat to powerCredit: University of Houston The promise of thermoelectric materials...
From sheep and cattle to giraffes, genome study reveals evolution of ruminants
New data opens new opportunities for research, conservation and animal breedingCredit: UC Davis photo A team of researchers has carried...
Your brain activity can be used to measure how well you understand a concept
Credit: Water tower at Olcott Beach, NY, by Ad Meskens; image was modified by Joshua S. Cetron and used under...
Cytotoxicity and physical properties of glass ionomer cement containing flavonoids
Alexandria, Va., USA - At the 97th General Session & Exhibition of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR), held...
New York Genome Center awarded $1.5M CZI grant for single-cell analysis toolkit
Combining multimodal methods to identify disease-causing genes of interest and extract more information at significantly reduced cost NEW YORK, NY...
Chan Zuckerberg initiative awards $68 million to support the Human Cell Atlas
New grants support networks of scientists from diverse disciplines who study a variety of healthy human organsCredit: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative...
Straight to the heart
Credit: Sebastian Diecke, MDC An international team of researchers are seeking to explore the heart at a depth that was...
Dental microwear provides clues to dietary habits of lepidosauria
Microscopic images allow to differentiate between carnivores and herbivores and might support the discovery of the first herbivorous terrestrial vertebratesCredit:...
Researchers find new mutation in the leptin gene
'Hunger hormone' imbalance can trigger obesityCredit: Texas Biomed San Antonio, Texas (June 19, 2019) - The global obesity epidemic is...
Embryonic microRNA fuels heart cell regeneration, Temple researchers show
(Philadelphia, PA) - By adulthood, the heart is no longer able to replenish injured or diseased cells. As a result,...
Parental care has forced great crested grebes to lay eggs with an eye on seagulls
It turned out that some birds have learned to change the time of egg incubation in order to breed along...
Hubble captures elusive, irregular galaxy
Credit: NASA, ESA and F. Bauer This image shows an irregular galaxy named IC 10, a member of the Local...
$2 million NIH grant renewal to study hepatitis E virus
Annually infecting more than 20 million people worldwide -- particularly in developing countries -- according to the World Health Organization,...
Reason to present at the 6th Aging Research for Drug Discovery Forum in Basel
Credit: Insilico Medicine Friday, June 21, 2019 - Today Insilico Medicine, a biotechnology company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline...
