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October 5, 2025

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Credit: Kyoto University / Chris Vincenot Kyoto, Japan -- In a new report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society...

Intravenous arginine benefits children after acute metabolic strokes

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Children with mitochondrial diseases who suffered acute metabolic strokes benefited from rapid intravenous treatment with...

West Coast waters returning to normal but salmon catches lagging

Credit: Adam Obaza/West Coast Region/NOAA Fisheries Ocean conditions off most of the U.S. West Coast are returning roughly to average,...

Trauma and dementia patients given hope by ‘flashbulb memory’ breakthrough

Credit: University of Sussex University of Sussex scientists have made a telling breakthrough in detailing the formation of 'flashbulb memories',...

Increasing tree mortality in a warming world

Credit: Photo courtesy of Andrea Starr/PNNL A mix of factors is contributing to an increasing mortality rate of trees in...

Burn specialists report a dramatic increase in burn injury survival over the past 30 years

CHICAGO (March 9, 2018): For many years, people who sustained severe burn injuries often died. But great strides in burn...

Liver study offers insights into hard-to-treat diseases

A key cell process that could cause damage to bile ducts and help explain some liver diseases has been identified...

Plant-derived volatiles may serve as future antifungals

A research team at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology has developed a novel screening method to identify antimicrobial properties...

Report identifies options for lowering risk of failure of undersea bolts on offshore oil rigs

WASHINGTON -- A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies strategies for improving the reliability...

Marine charities net more than iconic fishery: Massachusetts

Massachusetts boasts one of the most iconic fisheries in the U.S., but new research suggests that protecting marine coastlines has...

Multiple optical measurements reveal the single cell activation without contrast agent

NIAID scientists assess transmission risk of familial human prion diseases to mice

Credit: NIAID WHAT: Familial human prion diseases are passed within families and are associated with 34 known prion protein mutations....

Mayo Clinic’s clinical trial matching project sees higher enrollment in breast cancer trials through use of artificial intelligence

ROCHESTER, Minn. - Mayo Clinic and IBM Watson Health today unveiled results from early use of the Watson for Clinical...

Study shows bowel care is top concern for those with spinal cord injury

Credit: SFU Cardiovascular physiology researcher Victoria Claydon's latest study, published in the Journal of Neurotrauma, focuses on the results of...

Got the message? Your brainwaves will tell

The new technique was developed by Professor Tom Francart and his colleagues from the Department of Neurosciences at KU Leuven,...

Self-driving robots collect water samples to create snapshots of ocean microbes

Credit: Image courtesy of Elisha Wood-Charlson, University of Hawaii HONOLULU, HI - For the first time, scientists from the University...

Decoy molecules target E. coli to treat UTI in mice

Credit: Vasilios Kalas Half of all women will experience the pain and burning of a urinary tract infection (UTI) at...

Ramon L. Jimenez, MD, receives AAOS’ highest leadership honor

NEW ORLEANS, La. (March 8, 2018)-The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) today presented the 2018 William W. Tipton, Jr.,...

Social stress leads to changes in gut bacteria, study finds

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA-Exposure to psychological stress in the form of social conflict alters gut bacteria in Syrian hamsters,...

Report: Big tobacco is targeting the world’s most vulnerable to increase profits