State contract expands UNC team’s mental health training efforts
North Carolina is launching a statewide effort to expand suicide prevention and mental health training across its colleges, universities and public workforce. A new contract...
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Mizzou Research Helps Pork Producers Protect Pigs From Extreme Heat
The warning signs of heat stress in pigs may soon appear on a smartphone before they become visible in the barn. Researchers at the University...
Plant ULTRAPETALA1 Balances Trithorax and Polycomb Signals to Fine-Tune Reproductive Transitions
Scientists have uncovered a surprising molecular double life at the heart of plant development. A protein long associated with activating genes has now been shown...
Vibrio-produced tryptophan activates gut immune signaling through ultraspiracle phosphorylation
A new study has identified a molecular connection between a nutrient produced by the cholera bacterium and the innate immune machinery of the gut. Published...
India’s Nitrogen Crop Restructuring Could Deliver Environmental Benefits and Reshape Interstate Trade
India’s crop map may be carrying an invisible environmental price tag. A new study in Nature Communications examines how restructuring the country’s nitrogen-intensive agriculture could...
Risk model links intraoperative hypotension to clots after elderly hip surgery
Intraoperative Hypotension May Help Predict Venous Thromboembolism After Hip Surgery in Older Adults Hip surgery is one of the most common and consequential operations performed...
How glial cells may drive sleep disruption in Alzheimer’s disease
Sleep may be one of the earliest casualties of Alzheimer’s disease, and scientists are increasingly looking beyond neurons to understand why. A new review by...
Rice to lead $15 million Army center advancing next-generation sensing, communications
Rice University has received a five-year, $15 million award from the U.S. Army Research Office to establish a national research center aimed at transforming the...
Study reveals how tumors recruit nerves to sustain their growth
OKLAHOMA CITY—A study from the University of Oklahoma has identified a previously underappreciated mechanism by which triple-negative breast cancer may turn the immune system and...
Scientists make first measurement of antineutrinos emitted by spent nuclear fuel
When a nuclear reactor shuts down, its most visible activity may stop almost instantly, but the physics inside the core continues. Radioactive fission products left...
Healthy sleep may help adolescents succeed in school, new study finds
A new study from UC Davis Health suggests that sleep may be the most important everyday lifestyle factor linking mental health symptoms with academic and...
Cannabis cultivation is draining California streams, scientists warn
Groundwater pumping to irrigate cannabis farms in California’s Emerald Triangle may be quietly draining the streams that sustain some of the region’s most important salmon...
Human herpesvirus infects lemurs, threatening wild populations
A virus that usually causes little more than an uncomfortable cold sore in people has been linked to the deaths of four privately owned lemurs,...
Pregnancy May Promote Metastasis by Inducing Adenosine-Driven Immunosuppressive Neutrophils
Cancer may not spread through the body in the same way during pregnancy, according to a study published in Nature Communications. Chen, Shi, Lei and...
Parkinson’s Freezing of Gait Linked to State-Dependent Basal Forebrain-Cortical Gradient Failure
Parkinson’s disease is often described as a disorder of movement, but one of its most disabling symptoms can be defined by the moments when movement...