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Live cell imaging of asymmetric cell division in fertilized plant cells
Credit: ITbM, Nagoya University An international group of plant biologists have succeeded for the first time in visualizing how egg...
Youth fitness program, BORN TO MOVE from Les Mills, increases positive exercise outcomes
Credit: Les Mills CHICAGO - Nov. 29, 2016 - A recent study completed at Edge Hill University has found that...
Ants communicate by mouth-to-mouth fluid exchange
Credit: Adria C. LeBoeuf Liquids shared mouth-to-mouth by social insects contain proteins and small molecules that can influence the development...
UTSW researchers’ international study zeros in on gene that limits desire to drink alcohol
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS, Nov. 28, 2016 - In the largest study of its kind, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers...
Taking a closer look at online social networking and depression
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2016 New Rochelle, NY, November 28, 2016--While frequency and duration of online social networking...
UMD researchers crack the code of a deadly virus
Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) is an unforgiving killer of horses, donkeys and zebras, resulting in mortality as high as...
Our closest worm kin regrow body parts, raising hopes of regeneration in humans
Credit: Shawn Luttrell/University of Washington What if humans could regrow an amputated arm or leg, or completely restore nervous system...
Diane Spatz receives Lifetime Achievement Award from National Assoc. of Neonatal Nurses
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (November 28, 2016) - Diane L. Spatz, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN, Professor of Perinatal Nursing and the...
Optimizing fertilizer rates for wild blueberry
KEMPTOWN, NOVA SCOTIA - The authors of a study in HortScience (September 2106) say that wild blueberry nutrient management varies...
Program helps teens ‘get the message’ about distracted driving
November 28, 2016 - A program to educate teens about distracted driving--including a tour of a hospital trauma center and...
Handheld, mobile data technologies compared for turfgrass
ATHENS, GA - Performance testing of natural turfgrass sports fields requires sampling to obtain information on surface properties (e.g., soil...
Compost establishes growing media pH similar to limestone
KENNETT SQUARE, PA - As concerns increase about the environmental impacts of harvesting peat and the rising costs of peatmoss...
Most people at risk for osteoporisis fractures are not evaluated and treated
MAYWOOD, IL - Osteoporosis is preventable and treatable, but only a small proportion of people at risk for fractures are...
Missed connections
Credit: UCSB Studies of brain activity typically draw their findings from measurement averages across entire groups of subjects. But new...
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