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Scientists examine ‘perfect storms’ fueling vast tropical biodiversity
Credit: Getty Images Biodiversity on earth is greatest in the tropics with the number and variety of species gradually diminishing...
Female hormones increase risk of vision loss in rare genetic disease
Credit: Joseph A. Toonen Girls with a rare genetic disorder caused by mutations in a gene known as Nf1 are...
Francis Collins receives FASEB Award
Credit: Image courtesy of the National Institutes of Health. The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) presents its...
Low-carb diets safe in short term, more effective for weight loss than low-fat diets
CHICAGO--December 13, 2016--People deciding between low-carb and low-fat diets should know the research shows a slight advantage for low-carb diets...
‘Western’ maternal diet appears to raise obesity risk in offspring
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, CA - December 13, 2016 - Diet composition around the time of pregnancy...
Kelp beats the heat
Credit: Ron McPeak In early 2014, when a large-scale marine heat wave in the Pacific Ocean produced temperature anomalies greater...
RIT professor awarded NSF grant to benefit the next generation of games scholars
As a doctoral candidate, Owen Gottlieb received advice from a consortium that eventually led him to a successful teaching and...
Battery research reaching out to higher voltages
Credit: Monika Weiner / TUM For years, small rechargeable lithium-ion batteries have reliably supplied billions of portable devices with energy....
Measuring radiation damage on the fly
Cambridge, Mass. -- Materials exposed to a high-radiation environment such as the inside of a nuclear reactor vessel can gradually...
UCSB professors elected to National Academy of Inventors
Credit: Melissa Van De Werfhorst UC Santa Barbara professors James Speck and Larry Coldren are among the newest fellows of...
Unexpected activity of 2 enzymes helps explain why liver cancer drugs fail
Credit: Gen-Sheng Feng, UC San Diego Health Some cancers are caused by loss of enzymes that should keep cell growth...
Therapy response in brain tumor cells is linked to disease prognosis
The brain tumour form glioblastoma is difficult to treat and has very poor prognosis. In a new study, published today...
Brain structure best explains our dwindling tolerance of risk
Our brain's changing structure, not simply getting older and wiser, most affects our attitudes to risk, according to new research....
Could co-infection with other viruses affect the survival of those with Ebola virus?
Ebola virus is one of a variety of viruses that causes a disease that comes under the general heading of...
NIH awards aim to understand molecular changes during physical activity
The National Institutes of Health Common Fund announced today the first awards for the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity in...
Lunar sonic booms
The sonic boom created by an airplane comes from the craft's large, speeding body crashing into molecules in the air....
American death rate from drugs, alcohol, and mental disorders nearly triples since 1980
Credit: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation SEATTLE - More than 2,000 US counties witnessed increases of 200% or more...
Drug for narcolepsy could help food addicts lose weight
Overweight people could be given help with the discovery that a drug used for sleep disorder could also reduce the...
UCI team to play key role in national study on how physical activity benefits health
Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI Irvine, Calif., Dec. 13, 2016 -- With the support of a major National Institutes of...
Science and legal experts debate future uses and impact of human genome editing in Gender & the Genome
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 13, 2016--Precise, economical genome editing tools such as CRISPR have...
