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LA BioMed researcher honored for contributions to medicine
Credit: LA BioMed LOS ANGELES - (June 8, 2017) - The Medical Mycology Society of the Americas has honored John...
From the somatic cell to the germ cell
Credit: Photo: Thomas Kunz An international scientific consortium including the Freiburg plant biologist Prof. Dr. Thomas Laux has discovered a...
IDEAS study spurs related research to impact dementia care
Washington, DC and Chicago, June 8, 2017 -- The milestone Imaging Dementia - Evidence for Amyloid Scanning (IDEAS) Study is...
The brain’s hippocampus can organize memories for events as well as places
Credit: RIKEN People organize memories in photo albums, journals or calendars, but how does the brain first put events in...
Heroin’s use rising, costing society more than $51 billion
Heroin use in the United States was estimated to cost society more than $51 billion in 2015, according to new...
Kidney graft success — does age and sex matter?
Montreal, June 8, 2017 - The success of kidney transplant is dependent on the age and sex of both the...
Simple tasks don’t test brain’s true complexity
Credit: Xaq Pitkow/Dora Angelaki The human brain naturally makes its best guess when making a decision, and studying those guesses...
Study reveals sweetened drinks during pregnancy puts infants at higher risk for obesity
A recent Danish study of children born to women with gestational diabetes, found that maternal daily consumption of artificially-sweetened beverages...
Study finds failure to sustain reductions in carcinogens in cigarettes
Waterloo, Ontario: Tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) are potent carcinogens formed predominantly during the cigarette manufacturing process. Despite initial success lowering TSNA...
Why the marijuana and tobacco policy camps are on very different paths
Credit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. - The regulatory approaches to marijuana and tobacco in the United States are on...
New cellular imaging paves way for cancer treatment
Researchers at the Universities of York and Leiden have pioneered a technique which uses florescent imaging to track the actions...
Self-learning robot hands
Credit: Photo: Bielefeld University The system was developed as part of the large-scale research project Famula at Bielefeld University's Cluster...
How the brain recognizes what the eye sees
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA -- (June 8, 2017) If you think self-driving cars can't get here soon enough, you're...
Wayne State receives $3.05 million NIH award to improve diabetes care in youth
DETROIT - A Wayne State University research team will embark on a five-year, multicenter trial focused on helping parents engage...
Study finds delayed food introduction increases risk of sensitization
Hamilton, ON, June 8, 2017 -- Delaying the introduction of potentially allergenic foods until after a baby's first year may...
Research targets PFOA threat to drinking water
A highly toxic water pollutant, known as perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), last year caused a number of U.S. communities to close...
Inherited, rare skin disease informs treatment of common hair disorders, Penn study finds
Credit: Michael Passanante and Mingang Xu, PhD PHILADELPHIA - It is almost axiomatic in medicine that the study of rare...
Male sexual behavior linked to elevated male sex hormone receptors in muscles of sex-changing fish
Credit: Kory Gozjack ATLANTA--Sex-changing fish exhibit differences in androgen receptor (AR) expression in muscles that are highly sensitive to androgens...
The road not taken: Do stress-specific mutations lead down different evolutionary paths?
Credit: Maharajan and Ferenci graphic in PLOS Biology Starvation for essential elements determines the pattern of genetic variation. Evolution is...
The role of the protein Rrm3 in the repair of breaks in DNA during replication
Credit: Cabimer A research group from the University of Seville has revealed the role that the protein Rrm3 plays in...
