Smoking before and after conception is linked to delayed embryonic development
Smoking by mothers during the period immediately before and after conception is linked to a delay in embryonic development, smaller foetuses at the time of...
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The Conrad Prebys Foundation grants more than $1.5 million to support critical infrastructure—and a fascinating branch of immunology
LA JOLLA, CA—The Conrad Prebys Foundation has given more than $1.17 million to support La Jolla Institute for Immunology's (LJI) Flow Cytometry Core and more...
Research in brief: Science one step closer to “turning off” seizures, sleep disturbances linked to intellectual disability
Science is one step closer to developing targeted drug therapies that may reduce seizures, sleep disorders, and related symptoms common in people with intellectual disabilities.Credit:...
Blood test for Alzheimer’s highly accurate in large, international study
A blood test developed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has proven highly accurate in detecting early signs of Alzheimer’s disease in...
Building synthetic virus particles to study Sars-CoV-2
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg and their collaborators at the Max Planck Bristol Center for Minimal Biology at the...
Life sciences company GeniPhys Inc. receives $974,349 NSF SBIR Phase II grant
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- GeniPhys Inc., a life sciences company focused on developing and commercializing a proprietary biopolymer technology developed in Purdue University professor Sherry Harbin's laboratory,...
Major contract fuels three-university study of TMS for treating depression
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine and Stanford Medicine have launched a collaborative, three-year study to investigate new...
Light-based device uses a few drops of saliva to effectively test Covid-19 patients
The breakout of Covid-19 became a game changer in the medical field in 2020. Studies bloomed and steered into full motion to try and find...
Low-cost, 3D printed device may broaden focused ultrasound use
Researchers and clinicians have been working to use focused ultrasound combined with microbubbles to open the blood-brain barrier (BBB) for both noninvasive diagnostic use as...
Rats can estimate their timing accuracy
Thanks to their capacity for introspection, human beings are able to estimate the duration of their actions. When they perform a task – especially a...
Photonic technology enables fast, sensitive saliva test for COVID-19
WASHINGTON — Researchers from ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences and IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, both in Spain, have demonstrated a new low-cost portable instrument that...
Balkanatolia: the forgotten continent that sheds light on the evolution of mammals
A team of French, American and Turkish palaeontologists and geologists led by CNRS researchers1 has discovered the existence of a forgotten continent they have dubbed...
Following the inner compass: How birds find their ways to foreign lands
How migratory animals find their way to the wintering grounds, thousands of kilometers apart from their breeding ground, is a fascinating riddle of nature. Previous...
Sonic advance: How sound waves could help regrow bones
Researchers have used sound waves to turn stem cells into bone cells, in a tissue engineering advance that could one day help patients regrow bone...
Building artificial nerve cells
For the first time, researchers demonstrate an artificial organic neuron, a nerve cell, that can be integrated with a living plant and an artificial organic...
