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Airline industry could fly thousands of miles on biofuel from a new…
Credit: Claire Benjamin/University of Illinois A Boeing 747 burns one gallon of jet fuel each second. A recent analysis from...
Got eczema? It may just be bad evolutionary luck, study finds
Credit: Credit: Duo BUFFALO, N.Y. — Some genetic diseases persist for generation after generation because the genes that cause them...
A new index for the diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Credit: © DZD/IDM Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease has become a global epidemic. There is not only a great interest worldwide...
Stopping Zika: Saint Louis University to launch human vaccine trial
ST. LOUIS — Saint Louis University's vaccine center has been tapped by the National Institutes of Health to conduct a...
Identification of protein crucial to lymphatic system development
Credit: Osaka University Osaka – Lymphatic vessels form a circulatory system that plays an important role in controlling the amount...
Life on the edge prepares plants for climate change
Credit: MPI f. Developmental Biology/ M. Exposito-Alonso In the first study to predict whether different populations of the same plant...
Transcription factor expression tied to medial amygdala neuronal ID,…
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON – Neurons derived from two different types of precursor cells that later develop into...
Eat less and be happy — really!
IMAGE: This is from the inaugural issue of the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. Credit: Cornell Food and...
GI problems in autism may originate in genes, study suggests
Credit: Kara Gross Margolis, M.D., and Michael Gershon, M.D., Columbia University Medical Center NEW YORK, NY (April 25, 2016)–Researchers at...
Brain ‘reads’ sentences the same in English and Portuguese
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University An international research team led by Carnegie Mellon University has found that when the brain "reads"...
Keratin hydrogels show significant potential to regenerate lost muscle tissue & function
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 27, 2017–The use of human hair-derived keratin biomaterials to regenerate...
Plant’s parent genes cooperate in shaping their child
Credit: ITbM, Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan – A group of plant biologists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) of...
Unlocking the secrets of gene expression
Your DNA governs more than just what color your eyes are and whether you can curl your tongue. Your genes...
Russian scientists discover how certain proteins may help fight chlamydia
Scientists from Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Physical-Chemical Medicine, Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology and MIPT have shown that...
Humans don’t use as much brainpower as we like to think
Credit: Image by Arianna Harrington, Duke University. DURHAM, N.C. — For years, scientists assumed that humans devote a larger share...
Poor nutrition during pregnancy can cause early aging of baby’s…
Credit: Dr. Peter Nathanielsz and Dr. Geoffrey Clarke New research has shown that the child of a slightly undernourished mother...
A new function of the chromosomal terminus, vital for human health,…
DNA forms chromosome by combining with various proteins and other matters. Telemere, the chromosome ends, is playing an inevitable role...
Barbers, hair salons market cosmetic surgery on Instagram
Only 18 percent of top plastic surgery-related posts on Instagram were by board-certified plastic surgeons Hair salons, barbers, dentists and...
New approach to treating Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: UNIST Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common form of dementia. In search for new drugs for...
The sounds of eating may reduce how much you eat
New doctor's orders: No earbuds, no music, and no watching TV while eating. Researchers at Brigham Young University and Colorado...
