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Keeping astronauts healthy during deep space missions
When you get sick, a doctor or hospital is typically right down the road, a couple hours away at most....
New drug resistance process found in bacteria
Credit: UAB A team of researchers has discovered a new process capable of generating resistance to synthetic antibacterial drugs within...
GSK and Sanofi join FinnGen, a large scale genome study of the Finnish population
The FinnGen study, launched in autumn 2017, is a broad academic-industrial collaboration between the Finnish biobanks and their respective Universities,...
Orthopedic implants double the rate of bone lengthening in kids
Russian scientists developed advanced implants for the Ilizarov orthopedic systemCredit: Tomsk Polytechnic University The implants developed by TPU scientists passed...
Antarctic krill population contracts southward as polar oceans warm
> The population of Antarctic krill, the favourite food of many whales, penguins, fish and seals, shifted southward during a...
The second volume of Frontiers in Ceramic Science is now available
This book is by Dr. Moisés R. Cesário, Dr. Daniel A. de Macedo, Dr. Cédric Gennequin & Dr. Edmond Abi-Aad,...
Corals light the way to a healthy partnership
Credit: Craig Humphrey Corals know how to attract good company. New research finds that corals emit an enticing fluorescent green...
Exercise before surgery can protect both muscle and nerves, study suggests
Exercise expert seeks to prevent damage caused by restoration of blood flowCredit: Dan Addison | University of Virginia Exercise can...
BFU physicists developed a method of determining the composition of microplastic in water
Physicists from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University developed and applied a method of identifying microplastic collected in sea waters.Credit: Courtesy...
Study identifies new genes associated with the leading cause of blindness
A new study, published in Clinical Epigenetics, identifies genes associated with Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) that could represent new targets...
From nurses to conquerors: this single gene turns bees into social parasites
Tiny mutation enables worker bees to produce female offspringCredit: Michael Allsopp A small change in the genetic makeup of the...
A concise and visual reference diagnostic ultrasonography and biopsy of the thyroid gland
This book is by Dr. Samer El-Kaissi, and Dr. Jack R. Wall, Published on: December 11th, 2018. The book provides...
SwRI engineers create decision-making tool for oil spill clean-up
Tool finds the best solutions for specific spill scenarios SAN ANTONIO -- January 21, 2019 -- A team of Southwest...
Antiepileptic drugs linked to accumulation of hospital days in persons with Alzheimer's disease
People with Alzheimer's disease who used antiepileptic drugs had a higher number of accumulated hospital days than people with Alzheimer's...
Human respiratory viruses continue to spread in wild chimpanzees
MADISON - Less than two years after the first report of wild chimpanzees in Uganda dying as a result of...
Investigators close in on best treatment guidelines for critical limb ischemia
1,572 patients enrolled in ongoing trial Critical limb ischemia (CLI), a manifestation of peripheral arterial disease, is a debilitating and...
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists link concussions to epilepsy development
Altered astrocytes may be the root of epilepsy developmentCredit: Oleksii Shandra/Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research...
Frog eggs help researchers understand repair of DNA damages
The DNA replication process, which takes place every time a cell divides, also triggers repair of DNA damage, researchers from...
Multi-hop communication: Frog choruses inspire wireless sensor networks
A research collaboration including investigators from Osaka University devise a mathematical model based on the natural coordination of frog choruses,...
Gene changes may predict breast cancer relapse, study suggests
Scientists have identified genetic changes that may predict the likelihood of breast cancer relapse in women taking a common type...
