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Diagnosing strokes is complicated by ‘mimics’ and ‘chameleons’
MAYWOOD, IL - Stroke specialists often see conditions known as stroke "mimics" and "chameleons" that can complicate accurate diagnoses, Loyola...
Small risks may have big impact on breast cancer odds of childhood cancer survivors
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Oct. 26, 2018) St. Jude Children's Research Hospital researchers have evidence...
Sex, drugs and estradiol: why cannabis affects women differently
Cannabis use is riding high on a decade-long wave of decriminalization, legalization and unregulated synthetic substitutes. As society examines the...
CU researchers provide resource for patient care in chemical and biological attacks
AURORA, Colo. (Oct. 26, 2018) - The neurologic effects and treatment options for exposure to biologic and chemical agents are...
Genetic profiling may inform breast cancer risk in young childhood cancer survivors
Bottom Line: A combined evaluation of common variants with small effects and rare predisposing mutations among young female childhood cancer...
Biologists gain new insights into surface, acoustic behaviors of endangered right whales
Credit: Susan Parks, Syracuse University In response to the dwindling number of North Atlantic right whales, researchers in the College...
Kent State biologist wins grant to study neurological roots of chronic stress and fear
Credit: Kent State University Kent State Biologist Wins Grant to Study Neurological Roots of Chronic Stress and Fear People who...
IUPUI biologists use ‘mini retinas’ to better understand connection between eye and brain
Credit: Department of Biology, School of Science at IUPUI INDIANAPOLIS -- IUPUI biologists are growing 'mini retinas' in the lab...
Rice U. scientists uncover relationship between tremors, water at the Cascadia margin
Credit: Jonathan Delph/Rice University The earthquakes are so small and deep that someone standing in Seattle would never feel them....
Mapping the chromatin landscape of human cancer
By mapping the largely uncharted chromatin landscape of primary human cancers, researchers have revealed new insights into the regulation of...
Researchers observe novel bat behavior in Panama
Credit: Thomas Hiller Baby birds learn to fly. Baby mammals switch from milk to solid food. Baby bats, as winged...
CCNY finds K-core as a predictor of structural collapse in mutualistic ecosystems
A network metric called the K-core could predict structural collapse in mutualistic ecosystems, according to research by physicists at The...
Belgian researchers discover a novel method to block immunosuppression in cancer
Belgian research groups from the UCLouvain and WELBIO, VIB and Ghent University, and the biotechnology company argenx elucidated the three-dimensional...
CCNY study breaks Förster resonant energy transfer (FRET) distance limit
(City College of New York) Using engineered nanocomposite structures called metamaterials, a City College of New York-led research team reports...
Science Agora 2018
JST (President: Michinari Hamaguchi) will be holding Science Agora 2018 in the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan)...
Biomarkers facilitate early detection of glaucoma
The team headed by Dr. Jacqueline Reinhard and Prof. Dr. Andreas Faissner from the Department of Cell Morphology and Molecular...
Bacteria: Protein researchers decipher resistance mechanism
Credit: Milton Stubbs Worldwide, resistance to antibiotics is on the rise. In order to understand why bacteria are becoming immune...
ICTA-UAB to design participative and concurred forest fire prevention strategies
Scientists from the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) aim to design prevention...
A new process for full utilization of softwood bark
In the Finnish mechanical and chemical forest industry, three million tonnes of softwood bark are produced annually, presently mainly used...
DNA ‘dances’ in first explanation of how genetic material flows through a nucleus
Credit: D. Saintillan, M.J. Shelley and A. Zidovska/PNAS 2018 DNA flows inside a cell's nucleus in a choreographed line dance,...
