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Study reveals declining central American frog species are bouncing back
Credit: Photo by Louise Rollins-Smith, Ph.D. For more than 40 years, frog populations around the world have been declining. Now,...
Some can combat dementia by enlisting still-healthy parts of the brain
Credit: Aneta Kielar, University of Arizona People with a rare dementia that initially attacks the language center of the brain...
Wildfire smoke associated with more ER visits for heart, stroke ailments among seniors
DALLAS, April 11, 2018 -- Smoke from wildfires may send people - particularly seniors - to hospital emergency rooms (ERs)...
MIPT delivers world’s first biosensor chips based on copper and graphene oxide
Credit: Lion_on_Helium/MIPT Press Office Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have developed biosensor chips of unprecedented...
Tree rings provide vital information for improved climate predictions
(Umea University) Using a decade-long sequence of annual growth rings from pine trees, scientists at the NMR Centre at Umeå...
New bioinformatics tool identifies and classifies CRISPR-Cas systems
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 11, 2018--Designed to improve the utility and availability of increasingly...
Australia and the United States allied on the science front
Credit: Science & Technology Australia For the first time, the peak scientific bodies from Australia and the USA have struck...
UTSA researchers explore little-known, deadly fungal infections
A new study by Althea Campuzano, Ph.D. a student at The University of Texas at San Antonio, and Floyd Wormley,...
Deciphering the ‘mosaic’ of the brain
Credit: University of Leicester Researchers from the University of Leicester have shed new light on how neurons in the brain...
Coming into focus: Pitt researcher studies how the brain perceives moving objects
Credit: Shutterstock Our local environments are full of moving objects, but when we look at them, our brains can take...
Cancer risk rises as patients wait for diagnostic testing
PHILADELPHIA - The longer a patient with a positive screening result waits for diagnostic testing, the worse their cancer outcomes...
Researchers find doubling shelter cats’ space radically reduces upper respiratory disease
Feline upper respiratory infection in shelter cats can be dramatically decreased by doubling cage sizes and providing cats with two...
Mount Sinai-led task force identifies ways US health care systems can learn from the world
Millions of Americans have the same life expectancy as the American national average in the 1970s, according to a new...
Birds migrate away from diseases
In a unique study, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have mapped the origins of migratory birds. They used the...
Higher risk of infectious disease with both high and low cholesterol
Most people recognize that there is a relationship between cholesterol levels and risk of heart disease. But new research from...
Scientists uncover details of viral infections that drive environmental, human health
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Below the surface of systems as large and ancient as an ocean and as small and new...
Biomarker panel can guide treatment of brain cancer
In an article published April 10th in the journal Cell Reports, researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) describe...
Study: Women most at risk for heart failure weeks after giving birth
Heart failure is a leading cause of maternal morbidity and death in the U.S. -- with the rate of pregnancy-related...
Digital penicillin production
Credit: TU Wien For thousands of years, micro-organisms have been used to facilitate chemical reactions - in beer brewing, for...
Early ‘chemobrain’ intervention needed for breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy
More support is needed to help breast cancer patients and survivors manage 'chemobrain' symptoms, such as memory loss, short attention...
