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Is exposure to lead, cadmium associated with reduced ability to see contrast?
Bottom Line: Contrast sensitivity is a measure of how well someone sees an image against a background. Diminished contrast sensitivity...
Nikon Imaging Center opens at UC San Diego
Credit: Thomas Deerinck, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, UC San Diego The Nikon Imaging Center, a collaborative microscopy...
BPA exposure in US-approved levels may alter insulin response in non-diabetic adults
Credit: MU News Bureau In a first study of its kind study, researchers have found that a common chemical consumers...
One foot in the grave for pheasants that favor a side
Pheasants that more strongly favoured one foot over the other die younger than those that don't, new research suggests. While...
Caspase-2 enzyme inhibitor shows promise for ameliorating fatty liver disease
Credit: UC San Diego Health Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered using mice and...
Rush clinical trial testing vaccine for glioblastoma brain cancer
Credit: Rush Production Group Rush University Medical Center is part of a new clinical trial testing whether an experimental vaccine...
How bacteria play pass the parcel — and help each other evade antibiotics
Credit: Monash University Bacteria are very sneaky in their efforts to develop resistance to antibiotics. Some strains of bacteria package...
‘I have a sense that it’s probably quite bad … but because I don’t see it, I don’t know’
Lad culture in English universities is often perceived by university staff as involving 'extreme' behaviour and as being carried out...
Diagnosing and treating resistant hypertension
DALLAS, Sept. 13, 2018 -- Resistant hypertension affects 12 percent to15 percent of patients treated for high blood pressure according...
RUDN biochemists found out how ROS affect cisplatin resistance in ovarian cancer cells
Credit: Courtesy of Allen Dressen Long-term use of anti-cancer drugs treatment may lead to the development of multiple drug resistance...
Hemidystrophic thorax mimicking scoliosis
Pectus Excavatum (PE), Pectus Carinatum (PC), Poland Syndrome (PS), Sunken Chest Deformity (SCD), Barrel Chest Deformity (BCD), Body Builder Deformity...
International conference to explore labor and sex trafficking in Ohio, US and worldwide
The 15th Annual International Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference at The University of Toledo will host almost 90 presentations...
Disrupting genetic processes reverses aging in human cells
Research has shed new light on genetic processes that may one day lead to the development of therapies that can...
Clinical early warning scores: New clinical tools in evolution
Doctors and nurses are always grateful when they are given advance notice that a patient is about to seriously deteriorate...
Genetic testing helps predict disease recurrence in myelodysplastic syndrome
Credit: Matt Miller A DNA-based analysis of blood cells soon after a stem cell transplant can predict likelihood of disease...
Where have all the turtles gone, and why does it matter?
Credit: UGA Athens, Ga. - About 61 percent of the world's 356 turtle species are threatened or already extinct, and...
Location, location, location: does seedling defence vary over large geographical scales?
Do the defence mechanisms employed by seedlings to avoid being eaten by herbivores vary according to their location? That is...
Climate change may drive 10 percent of amphibian species in the Atlantic Rainforest to extinction
Credit: Fábio Maffei Global warming could lead to the extinction of up to 10% of frog and toad species endemic...
Discovery of a cancer promoter offers pathway to overcome drug resistance
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Geneticists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered a previously unknown cell growth...
St. Jude researchers solve a central mystery of a baffling high-risk leukemia
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have unraveled the origins and identified mutations associated...
