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Vaccine shows promise against widespread chicken disease
A new vaccine strategy could offer protection to millions of chickens threatened by a serious respiratory disease, research shows. Infectious...
Tortoise evolution: How did they become so big?
Credit: Markus Scholz / MLU Tortoises are a group of terrestrial turtles globally distributed in habitats ranging from deserts to...
Climate change and African trypanosomiasis vector populations in Zimbabwe’s Zambezi Valley
LSTM's Dr Jennifer Lord is first author on a paper looking at the impact of climate change on the vectors...
Institutional investors boost a company’s social performance, a new study finds
Credit: Bocconi University / VAS Since institutional investors own the bulk of the world's equity capital, it is important to...
‘Game-changing’ funding success for European research alliance
Credit: Andrew Davis A major grant to fund curiosity-driven research into plant communication has been awarded to a John Innes...
Wildlife on the highway to hell: Roadkill in the largest wetland, Pantanal region, Brazil
Credit: Michel Passos Having systematically monitored wild animals killed on the Brazilian federal highway BR-262, which passes through the Pantanal...
HPV blood test shows promise for tracking head and neck cancer after treatment
CHAPEL HILL - A new blood test developed by University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers shows promise...
Gut microbiota of infants predicts obesity in children
Washington, DC - October 23, 2018 - Evaluating the gut microbiota of infants may help identify children who are at...
Breakthrough test screens for all known bacterial infections
Scientists at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) in the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health have developed...
The role of the Atg2 protein in tethering pre-autophagosomal membranes to the endoplasmic reticulum
Credit: Tetsuya Kotani at Tokyo Tech Postdoctoral Researcher Tetsuya Kotani, Associate Professor Hitoshi Nakatogawa, Honorary Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi and colleagues...
Motion sickness vs. cybersickness: Two different problems or the same condition?
Rockville, Md. (October 23, 2018)--Contrary to previous research, severe motion sickness and cybersickness--a type of motion sickness that stems from...
Does gut microbiota hold the key to improved diagnosis and treatment of esophageal cancer?
(Vienna, October 23, 2018) Oesophageal microbiota may help to improve the diagnosis and management of oesophageal cancer, according to the...
New kind of compound shows early promise against prostate cancer
A new type of molecule blocks the action of genes that drive the growth of therapy-resistant prostate cancer, a new...
Politics interferes with the ability to assess expertise
Learning about someone's political beliefs interferes with a person's ability to assess expertise, as people judge like-minded peers as being...
Flavored capsule cigarettes pose a threat to smokefree goals
Credit: University of Otago New research from ASPIRE2025, a University of Otago research theme, challenges tobacco companies' claims they are...
Nerve-on-a-chip platform makes neuroprosthetics more effective
Credit: © 2018 EPFL Neuroprosthetics - implants containing multi-contact electrodes that can substitute certain nerve functionalities - have the potential...
Honey, I shrunk the cell culture
Credit: Jason Shear/University of Texas at Austin. From "Fantastic Voyage" to "Despicable Me," shrink rays have been a science-fiction staple...
OU sociologist examines attitudes toward LGT individuals in new study
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma sociologist, Meredith G. F. Worthen, examines how measures of social contact and...
‘Mushrooms’ and ‘brushes’ help cancer-fighting nanoparticles survive in the body
Credit: Drexel University For a number of innovative and life-saving medical treatments, from organ replacements and skin grafts to cancer...
Avoiding the hippocampus during whole-brain radiotherapy prevents cognitive side effects
Whole-brain radiotherapy can be delivered more safely to patients with brain metastases by avoiding the hippocampus according to a randomized...
