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Bertarelli Symposium 2018 to tackle the mysteries of the senses
Our senses -- vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, pain -- form the very foundation of our ability to understand and...
Analysis challenges link between pain medications and inflammatory bowel disease
Contrary to generally accepted belief, a recent review and analysis of published studies did not reveal a consistent association between...
A potential new therapeutic target for Ewing sarcoma
Credit: IDIBELL The sarcoma research group of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), led by Dr. Òscar Martínez-Tirado, has identified...
Expert in symptoms and pain receives Society of General Internal Medicine’s highest award
Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS - Kurt Kroenke, MD, a Regenstrief Institute investigator and the director of the institute's education and...
Study finds brain differences in athletes playing contact vs. noncontact sports
Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A study from researchers at Indiana University in the journal NeuroImage: Clinical has found...
Can we imitate organisms’ abilities to decode water patterns for new technologies?
Credit: Brendan Colvert, Mohamad Alsalman, Eva Kanso The shape of water. Can it tell us about what drives romance? Among...
It’s all about the (stem cell) neighborhood
Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School Stem cells have the ability to develop, or differentiate, into the many different cell types in...
Prehistoric reptile pregnant with octuplets
Credit: (c) Nobumichi Tamura Palaeontologists have discovered part of the skeleton of a 180 million-year-old pregnant ichthyosaur with the remains...
Green technologies environmentally and profit friendly
Credit: WSU Companies looking to reduce their environmental impact without negatively affecting profits may want to consider increasing their investment...
Tracking Aedes mosquito invasions in Panama
Credit: Credit: Sean Mattson, STRI According to new research in the journal PLOS ONE by scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical...
The humble fruit fly continues to boost biomedical discovery
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine For more than 100 years, the humble fruit fly has been used to understand fundamental...
Review of Vitamin D Research identifies ethical issues in placebo use
WASHINGTON (April 5, 2018) -- Since World War II, medical ethics in research studies involving human subjects have shifted significantly....
OIST to harness energy from ocean waves in the Maldives
Credit: OIST The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with...
Eating less enables lemurs to live longer
Chronic caloric restriction consists in eating a reduced but balanced diet from early adult life onward. Previous research, into macaques...
Like human societies, whales value culture and family ties
Credit: Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute It might seem like a "whale of tale," but groundbreaking research from...
Carbon taxes can be both fair and effective, study shows
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Putting a price on carbon, in the form of a fee or tax on the use of...
Researchers identify the cells that trigger flowering
ITHACA, N.Y. - How do plants "know" it is time to flower? A new study uncovers exactly where a key...
‘Sleeping’ stem cells could aid brain repair
Credit: Andrea Brand/Leo Otsuki Scientists at the Wellcome Trust/ Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, have identified a...
NUS engineers pioneer greener and cheaper technique for biofuel production
Credit: National University of Singapore A team of engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently discovered that a...
The relevance of GABA for diabetes is highlighted in two new studies
Dynamic interactions between the nervous system, hormones and the immune system are normally on-going but in diabetes the balance is...
