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Saliva diagnostics and salivaomics: Will saliva translate to a real diagnostic tool?
Alexandria, Va., USA - At the 96th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR), held in conjunction...
Novel genome-wide association study risk loci for nonsyndromic orofacial clefts
Alexandria, Va., USA - At the 96th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR), held in conjunction...
Hollow trees host massive moth slumber parties
Credit: Florida Museum video by Andrei Sourakov and Rose Roberts GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Unlike social insects such as bees and...
World’s marine wilderness is dwindling
Credit: Belle Co An international study led by University of Queensland scientists has found that only 13 per cent of...
Japan’s iconic extinct mammal: A sleeping treasure in a university collection
Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba - In the spring of 2017, Dr Yuri Kimura, from the Department of Geology and...
Can pollution alter wildlife behavior?
Credit: University of Portsmouth A team of scientists from the University of Portsmouth have developed new scientific tests to better...
55- to 70-year-old women and men with prediabetes get stronger bones with football training
Credit: Bo Kousgaard, Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Southern Denmark...
Study reveals new geometric shape used by nature to pack cells efficiently
Credit: Luis M. Escudero (Seville University, Spain), Javier Buceta (Lehigh University, USA), Pedro Gomez-Galvez, Pablo Vicente-Munuera and scientists from Andalucian...
Study shows ocean acidification is having major impact on marine life
Credit: Marco Milazzo Carbon dioxide emissions are killing off coral reefs and kelp forests as heat waves and ocean acidification...
Benjamin Fingerhut receives the ERC Starting Grant
Dr. Benjamin Fingerhut, junior group leader at the Max Born Institute (MBI), is recipient of the prestigious ERC Starting Grant...
From mini-organs to ultrafast filming: ERC invests in early career researchers
Credit: European Research Council Why is the world so green? What can we eat to prevent dementia? Are our eyes...
Susceptible genes identified for childhood chronic kidney disease
Credit: Kobe University Childhood nephrotic syndrome is the most frequently occurring chronic kidney disease among children. A Japanese research team...
Artificial intelligence can predict your personality … simply by tracking your eyes
It's often been said that the eyes are the window to the soul, revealing what we think and how we...
Key to artery health lies in LYVE-1 macrophage
Credit: Dr. Veronique Angeli Arteries such as the aorta actively transport oxygenated blood, nutrients and cells throughout the body to...
‘Nudging’ doctors to prescribe cholesterol-lowering statins triples prescription rates
PHILADELPHIA - Pairing an online patient dashboard with "nudges" to doctors tripled statin prescribing rates in a clinical trial led...
Making love can make men sad too: QUT research
Credit: QUT Marketing & Communication A world-first study by QUT researchers concludes men can and do suffer from Postcoital Dysphoria...
Association between firearm caliber and likelihood of death from gunshot
Bottom Line: The caliber of a firearm was associated with the likelihood of death from a gunshot, with shootings by...
Portfolio diet lowers many risk factors for heart disease
University of Toronto researchers have found that the portfolio diet, a plant-based way of eating previously shown to lower cholesterol...
U of G study is first to find evidence that leopard geckos can make new brain cells
Credit: (Rebecca McDonald/University of Guelph) University of Guelph researchers have discovered the type of stem cell allowing geckos to create...
Diabetes drugs act as powerful curb for immune cells in controlling inflammation
PHILADELPHIA - When tissue is damaged, one of the body's first inflammatory immune-system responders are macrophages, cells which are commonly...
