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Research may lead to improvements in water use for crop irrigation
Two papers published in Irrigation and Drainage may help improve estimates of water requirements for crops, which will save water...
Lifestyle changes can close regional obesity gap, study finds
Lifestyle differences are to blame for regional variation in obesity rates in Scotland, research has found. Genetic factors cannot completely...
Preeclampsia triggered by an overdose of gene activity
Preeclampsia is the most dangerous form of hypertension during a pregnancy and can be fatal for both mother and child....
Two firms awarded seed grants to develop medical devices for children
Credit: Voxello, LLC The Philadelphia Pediatric Medical Device Consortium (PPDC) has announced its latest round of seed grants to companies...
Jim Mellon announces launch of new book juvenescence: Investing in the Age of Longevity
Credit: Jim Mellon & Al Chalabi Wednesday, October 4th, 2017, London, UK: Biogerontology Research Foundation Trustee Jim Mellon announces the...
Genetic body/brain connection identified in genomic region linked to autism
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - For the first time, Whitehead Institute scientists have documented a direct link between deletions in two genes--fam57ba...
30,000-year old Sungir Homo sapiens visualized for the first time in 3-D virtual reality
Visual Science and the RAS Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, with support from the All-Russian Science Festival "Nauka 0+", have...
UC Berkeley physicists, engineers to build next-generation MRI brain scanner
Credit: David Feinberg/UC Berkeley Functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, has transformed our view of the brain, allowing researchers to...
Gluten intolerance appears largely undiagnosed in Canada
Research on a large sample of Canadians suggests that most people with celiac disease don't know they have it. Ahmed...
Coal miners shift to beekeeping
Credit: University of Delaware Former coal miners or citizens whose lives have been shaped by the coal mining industry in...
DNA barcoding technology helping monitor health of all-important boreal forest
The Boreal forest is essential to Canada and the world, storing carbon, purifying water and air and regulating climate. But...
WSDS to showcase, propel research, address challenges for women in statistics, data science
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (October 6, 2017) - In an effort to expand opportunities for women who are under-represented in the technical...
DNA damage caused by cancer treatment reversed by ZATT protein
Credit: Scott Williams An international team led by scientists at the National Institutes of Health is the first to discover...
The Gold Standard: John Innes Centre receives Athena SWAN Gold award
Credit: John Innes Centre A world-leading plant and microbial science institute, the John Innes Centre, has become the first institution...