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Higher risk of heart defects in babies of mothers with type 1 diabetes
Pregnant women with type 1 diabetes run a higher risk of having babies with heart defects, especially women with high...
New anti-clotting drugs linked to lower risk of serious bleeding
New drugs known as direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) used to treat serious blood clots are associated with reduced risks of...
Children are less likely to be obese if mothers stick to a healthy lifestyle
Children of mothers who follow a healthy lifestyle have a substantially lower risk of developing obesity than children of mothers...
Sleep disorder linked with changes to brain structure typical of dementia
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is associated with changes to the structure of the brain that are also seen in the...
Researchers discover new enzyme paradigm for critical reaction in converting lignin to useful products
An international research team, including scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), has discovered...
Ancestral people of Chaco Canyon likely grew their own food
Credit: Samantha Fladd/UC Researchers think they have a better understanding for how ancient North Americans thrived for centuries in northwestern...
Personality pressure
For more than a century, scientists have understood that natural selection have profound effects on how an animal looks -...
What’s in an egg? Oocyte factors that can reprogram adult cells
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 3, 2018-The promise of generating truly pluripotent stem cells from...
Emerging gene editing approach seeks broad spectrum crop disease resistance
Credit: Texas A&M AgriLife Illustration by Gabe Saldana DALLAS -- A novel gene editing approach could hold the key to...
UH Cancer Center renews NCI designation
Credit: UH Cancer Center The University of Hawai'i Cancer Center successfully competed for renewal of National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation,...
New clues to sepsis may speed diagnosis
Sepsis is an infection that kills as many Americans each year as stroke and Alzheimer's combined-about 250,000-but very little has...
Scientists identify mechanism that may explain why males are more at risk than females for neurodevelopmental disorders
Researchers have recently begun to realize that biological sex plays a key role in disease risk. Sex plays a role...
A first look at interstitial fluid flow in the brain
Credit: Kingsmore et al. WASHINGTON, D.C., July 3, 2018 -- Interstitial fluid transports nutrients and removes waste between the organs...
Researchers discover new enzyme paradigm for critical reaction researchers discover new enzyme paradigm for critical reaction in converting lignin to useful produce useful products
An international research team, including scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), has discovered...
Boldly going where no plant has gone before
Credit: UK Research Communications LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 2, 2018) - Joe Chappell's latest venture in plant-based drug development could be...
Can citizen science reverse the extinction of experience?
Credit: Matt Zeher Opportunities for people to interact with nature have declined over the past century, as most people now...
Self-healing seed pods
Credit: Jessica Huss An international team of researchers including members of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces has...
Study finds new genomic regions associated to weight gain in Nelore cattle
A pioneering research project has identified genes potentially associated with functions such as growth and weight gain in the Nelore...
Boosting testosterone makes men prefer higher-status products
In the animal kingdom, males of certain species possess flashy ornamentation that appears to do little to enhance their survival;...
Southeast Asian forest loss greater than expected, with negative climate implications
Credit: the researchers Researchers using satellite imaging have found much greater than expected deforestation since 2000 in the highlands of...
