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Peek into your genes: NASA one-year mission investigators identify links to vision problems
Credit: NASA Coinciding with May - Healthy Vision Month, NASA's One-Year Mission investigators are peering into their new findings to...
Paleobiologists make intriguing new discoveries about dinosaurs’ ancestors
An international group of researchers has discovered that the most ancient dinosaurs' ancestors were quadrupedal. Andrey Sennikov, employee of the...
Penn Medicine’s Carl June, MD, to receive ASCO’s Highest Scientific Honor
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - The American Society of Clinical Oncology has named University of Pennsylvania cancer and HIV gene...
Detecting Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms emerge
Credit: Ricardo Carrasco III LOS ANGELES - Long before symptoms of Alzheimer's disease become apparent to patients and their families,...
How does water get to homes? Hint: It isn’t magic
Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- New Indiana University research shows many Americans don't know how clean water gets to...
New targeted molecular therapy takes aim at incurable prostate cancer
NEW YORK (May 31, 2017) -- NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine have begun the first clinical trial in the United...
With $58M grant, University of Michigan researchers will push health research forward with community’s help
Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The next big idea to help people with cancer, heart disease, diabetes,...
Gaps in hepatitis testing and monitoring programmes across the EU/EEA
Credit: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC The survey results suggest a wide variation in existing national testing...
Web-based search data is a new key to understanding public reaction to major events
INDIANAPOLIS -- Analyzing millions of internet searches tied to major societal events offers a new way to understand public reaction...
Acidified ocean water widespread along North American West Coast
Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - A three-year survey of the California Current System along the West Coast of...
The fairer — The greener
Researchers at universities in Freiburg, Kiel and Berlin have discovered that the economic value of nature for a society is...
Oxytocin reduces cravings for methamphetamine
Philadelphia, PA, May 31, 2017 - Many people have suggested that addiction hijacks the body's natural drives in the service...
Cancer therapy shows promise for psoriasis treatment
Credit: Phil Jones, Augusta University Senior Photographer AUGUSTA, Ga. (May 31, 2017) - HDAC inhibitors, already widely used to treat...
Pay $8 for a Buddha-shaped pear foolish or fun? Your age may predict your answer
Credit: Fruit Mould URBANA, Ill. - Square watermelons, star- and heart-shaped cucumbers, and even Buddha-shaped pears can be found in...
Possible correlation shown between TMI nuclear accident and thyroid cancers
Penn State College of Medicine researchers have shown, for the first time, a possible correlation between the partial meltdown of...
Critical molecular determinants for activation of calcium flux into cells revealed
Triggered by decreases in ER Ca2+ level, conformational changes of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) luminal domain in STIM1 would switch...
In Galapagos Islands, doctoral student researches the role of soil microbes in plant invasions
Credit: University of Kansas | KU News Service LAWRENCE -- A doctoral student of ecology and evolutionary biology at the...
All heart patients have some liver disease after fontan surgery
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Patients who undergo the Fontan operation as children for a complex congenital heart defect are...
Reading to therapy dogs improves literacy attitudes in second-grade students
Credit: Melody Ko for Tufts University Second-grade students who read aloud to dogs in an afterschool program demonstrated improved attitudes...
Bed bugs: Proactive pest management critical in multi-unit housing
Annapolis, MD; May 24, 2017--Amid the persistent threat of bed bug infestations in multi-unit housing, the best advice for property...
