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Montmorency tart cherries may provide benefits for adults with metabolic syndrome
Suggests new pilot studyCredit: Cherry Marketing Institute LANSING, Mich. May 7, 2019 - Montmorency tart cherries reduced systolic blood pressure,...
Threatened sturgeon learns for the fitness
Credit: Marco Prosch An international team led by IGB is providing one of the first proofs of the complex learning...
Announcing the 2019 BioOne Ambassador Award winners
BioOne honors five early career authors who best communicate the importance and impact of their specialized research to the public....
Eye’s vulnerability to macular degeneration revealed
Differences in the shape and biology of nerve cells in the retina and macula reveal a metabolic response critical to...
Particle telescope to probe makeup of cosmic rays and could improve cancer treatment
Credit: Christophe Royon LAWRENCE -- With a recent three-year, $1.4 million grant from NASA, a research team from the University...
New ‘jumping’ superbug gene discovered, resistant to last-resort antibiotic
Credit: Ahmed Gaballa, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - While sifting through the bacterial genome of salmonella, Cornell University food scientists...
Researchers uncover mechanism blocking retina regeneration
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A discovery opens the possibility of one day restoring loss of vision by activating the...
Teaching CRISPR and antibiotic resistance to high school students
BioBits Health brings hands-on, low-cost, high-tech synthetic biology into the classroomCredit: Claire Barclay EVANSTON, Ill. -- How can high school...
Arsenic in drinking water may change heart structure raising risk of heart disease
May 7, 2019 -- Drinking water that is contaminated with arsenic may lead to thickening of the heart's main pumping...
Biophysicists resolve true structure of highly promising optogenetic protein KR2 rhodopsin
Credit: Kirill Kovalev et al./Science Advances A team of biophysicists from Russia, Germany, and France, featuring researchers from the Moscow...
Patients insured by marketplace health plan less likely to receive a medical appointment
PHILADELPHIA - Among adults with mental health needs, those covered by Medicare or employer-sponsored health insurance have greater access to...
InnoMat.Life: Increased safety for novel materials
Nanomaterials and novel materials are being examined with regard to their human health and environmental risks For the first time,...
Scientists pinpoint potential new target for regulating inflammation
Credit: Andrew Bowie and Michael Carty, Trinity College Dublin Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered a potential new target...
Electroconvulsive therapy reboots certain brain networks to help depressed individuals
Baycrest researchers found that electroconvulsive therapy corrects brain networks associated with learning and thinking impairments.Credit: Provided by Baycrest Electroconvulsive therapy...
New approach shows regeneration of severely damaged lungs
Columbia Engineering and Vanderbilt researchers are first to demonstrate in a clinically relevant model that severely damaged lungs can be...
Aspirin before at-home colorectal cancer screening test didn’t significantly improve ability to detect cancer precursors
Bottom Line: Some observational studies have suggested that taking aspirin before undergoing colorectal cancer screening with a fecal immunochemical test...
Teen girls more vulnerable to bullying than boys
Rutgers University-Camden nursing research shows notable disparity CAMDEN - Girls are more often bullied than boys and are more likely...
Fat fruit flies: High-sugar diet deadens sweet tooth; promotes overeating, obesity in flies
ANN ARBOR--Some research suggests that one reason people with obesity overeat is because they don't enjoy food--especially sweets--as much as...
Success tastes so sweet
Neurons that encode sweetness identified in miceCredit: Ken-ichiro Nakajima / National Institute for Physiological Sciences Researchers from the National Institute...
Damaged lungs regenerated in study
Research offers promise for lung transplant patients A new technique to rehabilitate lungs that are too damaged to be considered...
