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JHU scientists discover how extremophiles flourish in stressful environments
Thousands of molecules of ribonucleic acid make salt-loving microbes known as "extremophiles" highly resistant to the phenomenon oxidative stress -...
Capturing the balance of nature
Credit: Kyoto University / Reiji Masuda Kyoto, Japan -- In a study spanning twelve years, researchers from Kyoto University, and...
Here’s how viruses inactivate the immune system, causing cancer
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center It's no new news that viruses cause cancer. For example, human papillomavirus (HPV) causes...
Geology in the Natural State
Boulder, Colo., USA: On 11-13 March, geoscientists from the south-central U.S. and beyond will convene in Little Rock, Arkansas, to...
Discovery shows wine grapes gasping for breath
Credit: University of Adelaide University of Adelaide researchers have discovered how grapes "breathe", and that shortage of oxygen leads to...
Fred Hutch announces 2018 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award recipients
SEATTLE -- March 1, 2018 -- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has announced the 2018 recipients of the annual Harold...
UTMB researchers find how Ebola disables the immune system
Credit: The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston GALVESTON, Texas – A new study at The University of Texas...
Genome technology boosts malaria control efforts
While most malaria research has focused on the parasite Plasmodium falciparum, which is common in Africa, another parasite, Plasmodium vivax...
Understanding a fly’s body temperature may help people sleep better
Credit: Cincinnati Children's Confocal Imaging Core CINCINNATI – In findings that one day may help people sleep better, scientists have...
The impact of Hurricane Harvey on pregnant moms
Credit: University of Houston Johanna Bick, assistant professor of clinical psychology at the University of Houston, is launching a study...
Antibody-coated drug-eluting stents for coronary heart disease: No hint of benefit
In patients with coronary heart disease requiring a stent implantation, the benefit of treatment with antibody-coated drug-eluting stents (ABC-DES) versus...
Is cupping therapy effective among athletes?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 13, 2018–Swimmer Michael Phelps's continued dominance at the 2016 Rio...
Suffering warthogs seek out nit-picking mongooses for relief
Credit: A. Plumptre Warthogs living in Uganda have learned to rid themselves of annoying ticks by seeking out the grooming...
TSRI scientists find simple copper complex shuts down botulinum neurotoxin poisoning
Credit: Image courtesy CDC LA JOLLA, CA – May 24, 2017 – Botulinum neurotoxin is probably best known to Americans...
Standard blood pressure target is sufficient for treating some strokes
An international stroke study found that standard and intensive blood pressure treatments were equally effective in the emergency treatment of...
Illuminating cancer: Researchers invent a pH threshold sensor to…
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – Dec. 20, 2016 – UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have invented a transistor-like threshold sensor...
Cannot sleep due to stress? Here is the cure
Credit: Univetsity of Tsukuba Everyone empirically knows that stressful events certainly affect sound sleep. Scientists in the Japanese sleep institute...
Digital liver scanning technology could halve the number of liver biopsies needed in the NHS
Credit: University of Birmingham A study jointly led by the University of Birmingham and University of Edinburgh has revealed that...
NIH releases first dataset from unprecedented study of adolescent brain development
Credit: Source: Dr. Richard Watts and ABCD/Univ. of VT P.I. Dr. Hugh Garavan The National Institutes of Health today released...
Light-activated cancer drugs without toxic side effects: Fresh insight
Credit: Robbin Vernooij/University of Warwick Cancer drugs activated by light, minimizing toxic side-effects, are a step closer thanks to new...
