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At a cost of thousands of dollars per pound, truffles are an expensive food. The fungi are prized for their...

Swabbing cesarean-born babies with vaginal fluids potentially unsafe and unnecessary

The increasingly popular practice of 'vaginal seeding' -- in which cesarean-delivered babies are immediately swabbed with the mother's vaginal fluids...

New compound effective against drug-resistant pathogens, could lead to new antibiotics

Researchers from North Carolina State University have synthesized an analog of lipoxazolidinone A, a small molecule that is effective against...

Igniting the rheumatoid arthritis flame through a cellular cascade

Credit: Osaka University Osaka - Chronic inflammatory disorders, including autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, involve the action of various...

Using telemedicine to bring genetic counseling to community cancer care

PHILADELPHIA - Genetic counseling for cancer patients has become standard of care at academic medical centers, but patients cared for...

From Haifa to Tokyo: Medical detectives team up on selenoprotein1/EPT1

Credit: Ayelet Eran and coauthors The baby looked healthy at first. But within two hours, he was having severe seizures....

UTA researcher’s technology could revolutionize testing, tracking of brain performance

Credit: UT Arlington A UTA engineering researcher has led the development of computer tests and games, that are both web-based...

What happens to plasmalogens, the phospholipids nobody likes to think about

Credit: Richard Gross Alzheimer's disease patients lose up to 60% of a component called plasmalogen from the membranes of the...

Wars and clan structure may explain a strange biological event 7,000 years ago

Starting about 7,000 years ago, something weird seems to have happened to men: Over the next two millennia, recent studies...

Smell receptor fuels prostate cancer progression

Credit: Tatjana Abaffy DURHAM, N.C. -- When scientists first described the receptors responsible for our sense of smell, they naturally...

Male thyroid cancer survivors face 50 percent higher risk of heart disease than women

WASHINGTON--Male thyroid cancer survivors have a nearly 50 percent higher risk of developing heart disease than women within five years...

How to code a functional molecular machine?

Credit: IBS An international team has developed a model that simulates protein evolution. Starting from stiff, unfunctional proteins, the computer...

Novel power meter opens the door for in-situ, real-time monitoring of high-power lasers

Credit: A. Artusio-Glimpse/NIST >[email protected] Orlando, FL - High-power lasers are now widely used in additive manufacturing and laser welding systems...

New research could improve wireless sensing and communication

Credit: Binghamton University, State University at New York BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - A research team led by faculty at Binghamton University,...

Group making digital tool for documenting life on Earth adopts new organizational model

Credit: University of Kansas LAWRENCE -- For more than 20 years, scientists managing biological research collections around the world have...

First time guidance on treating red diaper syndrome in otherwise healthy breastfed infants

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 29, 2018 -- A case study and subsequent literature review...

In child-crippling mucolipidosis IV, drug shows hope in lab cultures

Credit: ML4.org Mucolipidosis IV debilitates afflicted children's nervous systems in their first year of life, steals their eyesight in their...

Engineers design color-changing compression bandage

Credit: Courtesy of the researchers Compression therapy is a standard form of treatment for patients who suffer from venous ulcers...

Invisible barrier on ocean surface can reduce carbon uptake