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NASA catches Tropical Cyclone Idai making landfall in Mozambique
Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson Tropical Cyclone Idai was approaching landfall in Mozambique when NASA's Aqua satellite provided an infrared look...
‘Home’ is where success — or failure — rests: Personal context directly affects CPAP use
Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS - CPAP, short for continuous positive airway pressure, is the most commonly used therapy for obstructive...
C-Path, FNIH announce clinical development user’s guide for kidney safety biomarkers
TUCSON, Ariz., March 14, 2019 -- The Critical Path Institute's (C-Path) Predictive Safety Testing Consortium (PSTC) today announced availability of...
BU: Central American kidney disease epidemic linked to occupational heat exposure
Chronic kidney disease, common in agricultural workers in El Salvador and Nicaragua, was also found in 12 percent of sample...
New research unlocking the secrets of how languages change
RIT/NTID team examines Nicaraguan sign language to determine whether languages change so they are easier to produce or to understandCredit:...
RIT associate professor Suzanne O’Handley nationally recognized for mentorship
O'Handley is the 2019 CUR-Goldwater Scholars Faculty Mentor AwardeeCredit: A. Sue Weisler/RIT Rochester Institute of Technology Associate Professor Suzanne O'Handley...
How a mitochondrial enzyme can trigger cell death
Credit: Illustration by Patrick van der Wel and Mingyue Li Cytochrome c is a small enzyme that plays an important...
Vaccine study confirms sensitivity of cholera test
Credit: Conor Ashleigh, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, (CC BY 2.0, 2012) Recently, the sensitivity of fecal microbiological cultures...
Narwhals spend at least half time diving for food, can fast for several days after meal
Tracking data from male Narwhal shows whales regularly dive to depths of over 700mCredit: Photo by Carsten Egevang. Narwhals -...
Exotic ‘second sound’ phenomenon observed in pencil lead
At relatively balmy temperatures, heat behaves like sound when moving through graphite, study reports The next time you set a...
The sweet spot: Scientists discover taste center of human brain
ITHACA, N.Y. - Researchers long ago mapped sight, hearing and other human sensory systems in the brain. But for taste,...
Dr. David Rubinsztein to present at the 6th Aging Research for Drug Discovery Forum in Basel
Credit: Insilico Medicine Thursday, March 14, 2019 - Today Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline...
Ancient DNA research shines spotlight on Iberia
The largest-ever study of ancient DNA from the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) suggests that the Iberian male lineages were...
Are we at the limits of measuring water-repellent surfaces
As we develop extremely liquid repellent surfaces, the errors in existing measurement techniques are getting too largeCredit: Maja Vuckovac How...
The CRG awarded the EJE&CON Genderless Talent prize
The EJE&CON Awards to Genderless Talent go to P&G, Room Mate Hotels, CRG, Julia en la Onda of Onda Cero,...
Pushing past limits
UCSB doctoral student Junkai Jiang receives prestigious Ph.D. Student Fellowship from IEEE Electron Devices Society The steady improvement of the...
What makes a cell turn cancerous?
CHLA researcher receives $1.6M grant to study cellular and genetic changes that underlie retinoblastomaCredit: Children's Hospital Los Angeles Retinoblastoma is...
Cell therapy could replace need for kidney transplants
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., -- March 13 2019, -- Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) scientists are working on a promising...
Is laughter the best medicine? Find out at EuroPrevent 2019
11 to 13 April in Lisbon, Portugal: Is laughter the best medicine? Find out at EuroPrevent 2019. The annual scientific...
Engineering treatments for the opioid epidemic
Rudra receives award from National Institute on Drug AbuseCredit: Washington University in St. Louis The U.S. is reeling from a...
