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Fruit discovery could provide new treatments for obesity, type 2…
A combination of two compounds found in red grapes and oranges could be used to improve the health of people...
Pulling power reveals new insights into membrane dynamics in human cells
Credit: University of Exeter Organelles are the functional units of a cell. Like different parts of a production line in...
Research reveals swaths of Asia inhabited by surprisingly related ‘Lizards of the Lost…
Credit: R.M. Brown LAWRENCE — A new paper appearing in Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows a varied collection...
‘Switchable’ smart windows reduce energy consumption…
Credit: Eindhoven University of Technology Smart windows that act as blinds in the summer and let all the sunlight through...
Dangerous drug interactions uncovered with data science
Credit: E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune NEW YORK, NY (October 10, 2016)–Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center and the Data Science...
A brain link to autism
In a discovery that could offer valuable insights into understanding, diagnosing, and even treating autism, Harvard scientists for the first...
Resistance to key HIV drug ‘concerningly common’
HIV drug resistance to tenofovir, an antiretroviral drug vital to most modern HIV treatment and prevention strategies, is surprisingly and...
Gigantic crocodile with T. rex teeth was a top land predator of the…
Credit: Giovanni Bindellini Little is known about the origin and early evolution of the Notosuchia, hitherto unknown in the Jurassic...
Study reveals significant role of dust in mountain ecosystems
Credit: Lindsay Arvin Trees growing atop the Bald Mountain Granite in the southern Sierra Nevada rely on nutrients from windblown...
Honeycomb maze offers significant improvement over current spatial navigation tests
Credit: Sainsbury Wellcome Centre A powerful new tool for the study of spatial memory was today described in Nature as...
Yale cancer researchers propose new ways to select patients for clinical trials
Credit: Yale Cancer Center New Haven, Conn. — Many clinical trials for breast cancer fail to give clear answers on...
Alzheimer’s disease found to be a diabetic disorder of the brain
Credit: Shigeki Moriguchi Researchers at Tohoku University have found a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, by noticing a similarity in...
Study finds local fidelity key to ocean-wide recovery of humpback…
Credit: Photo Credit: National Park Service photo under NMFS Scientific Research permit #945-1776-01 NEWPORT, Ore. – Humpback whales can migrate...
Researchers discover that a ‘muscle’ cancer is not really a muscle cancer
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital St. Jude Children's Research Hospital oncologists have discovered the cell type that gives rise...
A simple and efficient 3-D fabrication technique for bio-inspired hierarchical structures
WASHINGTON — Nature is no doubt the world's best biological engineer, whose simple, exquisite but powerful designs have inspired scientists...
UTokyo concludes agreement to develop personalized cancer vaccine
Credit: 2018 BrightPath Biotherapeutics Co., Ltd. Tokyo – The University of Tokyo entered an agreement for developing a personalized cancer...
Experts: 1 in 3 cases of dementia preventable, nonmedical therapies…
Credit: Keck Medicine of USC LOS ANGELES – Managing lifestyle factors such as hearing loss, smoking, hypertension and depression could...
Researchers find that antiretroviral therapy reduces HIV in the female reproductive tract
Chapel Hill, NC – For the first time, investigators in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of North...
Snub-nosed monkeys: Conservation challenges in the face of environmental uncertainty
Snub-nosed moneys provide an excellent example of adaptive radiation and display uncommon ecological adaptations. They live along an elevation gradient...
Living on borrowed time
Unfortunately, loss of plant and animal habitat leads to local species extinctions and a loss of diversity from ecosystems. Fortunately,...
