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Lighter weights just as effective as heavier weights to gain muscle,…
New research from McMaster University is challenging traditional workout wisdom, suggesting that lifting lighter weights many times is as efficient...
Targeting blood vessels to improve cancer immunotherapy
Credit: Credit: Ella Maru Studio (free to use with credit) EPFL scientists have improved the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy by...
Biodiversity project in Azores delivers detailed abundance data for 286 arthropod species
Credit: Pedro Cardoso In 1999, a long-term biodiversity project started at the Azores Islands (Portugal, Atlantic Ocean), the Biodiversity of...
Changing temperatures and precipitation may affect living skin of…
Credit: Jennifer LaVista, USGS Public domain Arid and semiarid ecosystems are expected to experience significant changes in temperature and precipitation...
Livestock can uproot protected wildlife from prime real estate
Credit: Michigan State University Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability The story of wildlife conservation is usually framed as man...
Lack of opportunities promotes brood care
Credit: Wolfgang Goymann/ MPI for Ornithology Male black coucals who care for their broods alone are just as successful as...
LSUHealthNO awarded $2.5m grant to develop better dental filling…
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry New Orleans, LA – The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research...
Two Baylor College of Medicine faculty members named to National…
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Dr. Malcolm Brenner, founding director of the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor...
Study shows need for adaptive powered knee prosthesis to assist…
Credit: Marc Hall, NC State University New North Carolina State University research into wearable robotics shows how amputees wearing these...
Study suggests gut bacteria can aid recovery from spinal cord injury
Credit: Kigerl et al., 2016 Researchers from The Ohio State University have discovered that spinal cord injury alters the type...
The pizza slice that comes at a price
A recent study has shown that emissions in major cities caused by restaurants such as pizzerias and steakhouses using wood...
NIH researchers discover otulipenia, a new inflammatory disease
Credit: Darryl Leja, NHGRI National Institutes of Health researchers have discovered a rare and sometimes lethal inflammatory disease – otulipenia...
Mouse teeth providing new insights into tissue regeneration
Credit: Klein Lab / UCSF Researchers hope to one day use stem cells to heal burns, patch damaged heart tissue,...
Vorinostat renders dormant HIV infection vulnerable to clearance
Credit: David Kinton, UNC School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC – The ability for HIV to hide in the body...
Big trash pickup
Everyone would rather cook than take out the garbage. Perhaps that's why biochemists learned how cells make proteins 70 years...
DNA evidence shows that salmon hatcheries cause substantial, rapid genetic changes
CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new study on steelhead trout in Oregon offers genetic evidence that wild and hatchery fish are...
The therapeutic antibody eculizumab caught in action
In collaboration with Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., scientists from Aarhus University have used X-rays to understand how the therapeutic antibody eculizumab...
Drone photos offer faster, cheaper data on key Antarctic species
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Southwest Fisheries Science Center Scientists in Antarctica have demonstrated a cheaper, faster and simpler way to gauge the...
Eye expressions offer a glimpse into the evolution of emotion
Credit: Cornell University New research by Adam Anderson, professor of human development at Cornell University's College of Human Ecology, reveals...
How plants grow like human brains
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA — (July 6, 2017) Plants and brains are more alike than you might think: Salk...
