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Appetite for shark fin soup drives massive shark population decline
Credit: Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Consumers need to stop demanding shark fin soup and other products in the absence of robust...
Jennifer Doudna to receive the 2018 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
Credit: Keegan Houser The Rockefeller University has announced that Jennifer Doudna will receive this year's Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, a...
New map of daily light integrals generated from updated data
Credit: Photo by T. Salvador, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The most recent solar radiation data have been converted into...
Study details incidence & timing of immunotherapy-related fatalities
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers have answered questions about the incidence and timing of rare but sometimes fatal reactions to the...
San Francisco’s Exploratorium announces Climate Change Explorer and Climate Press Kit
Credit: © Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu SAN FRANCISCO (Sept 13, 2018) - The Exploratorium announced this week the launch of its new...
Prostate cancer care for older men estimated to cost Medicare $1.2 billion
CHAPEL HILL - Researchers from the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center estimate that screening for and treating...
Point-of-care sensors to detect manganese from single drop of blood
Credit: Sharon Parmet. A three-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will enable researchers at the University...
FSU researchers: Most fire in Florida goes undetected
Credit: Kevin Robertson TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A new study from Florida State University researchers indicates that common satellite imaging technologies...
UTA researcher creates hydrogels capable of complex movement
Credit: UT Arlington Living organisms expand and contract soft tissues to achieve complex, 3-D movements and functions, but replicating those...
Climate-induced soil changes may cause more erosion and flash flooding
Credit: USDA Riverside, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) --The earth beneath our feet isn't usually the first thing that comes to mind when...
HKU student wins technology and innovation contest in China
Credit: @HKU Year- 6 medical student Mr Lai Hei-ming from the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University...
Sleep apnea could favor tumor growth at young ages
Credit: UB-CIBERES A scientific study, conducted with animal models, states that sleep apnea can favour lung cancer growth in young...
2018 Golden Goose Award recognizes five researchers and their basic research that benefits society
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The seventh annual Golden Goose Award ceremony will recognize three teams of scientists whose silly-sounding research has...
International Vertebrate Genomes Project releases first 15 high-quality reference genomes
The Genome 10K G10K) announces the official launch of a new project, the international Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP), and its...
Heat-related deaths likely to increase significantly as global temperatures rise, warn researchers
The world needs to keep global temperatures in check by meeting the goals set out in the Paris Agreement, or...
ACA expansion did not improve access to complex surgeries for low-income/minority patients
WASHINGTON -- A first look at the Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s Medicaid expansion finds that despite expectations, there was no...
Gene technology brings more precise information on the causes of diabetes
(University of Helsinki) Dysfunction in insulin-producing pancreatic cells is the ultimate cause of diabetes. A new doctoral study introduces a...
A potential new way to treat some of the most common blinding diseases
Credit: The American Journal of Pathology Philadelphia, PA, September 13, 2018 - Many eye diseases, including diabetic retinopathy and macular...
Obesity alters airway muscle function, increases Asthma risk
Rockville, Md. (September 13, 2018)--New research suggests that obesity changes how airway muscles function, increasing the risk of developing asthma....
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...
