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The spinal column is the central supporting structure of the skeleton in all vertebrates. Not only does it provide a place for muscles to attach,...

Mould, pesticides, toxic chemical exposures reported in survey of Canadian child care professionals

Nearly half of some 2,000 professionals in child care programs across Canada report unhealthy conditions for children, according to survey data released on national Healthy...

The habitat and animals that were found together with the giant ichthyosaurs copyright Heinz Furrer.jpg

Huge new ichthyosaur, one of the largest animals ever, uncovered high in the Alps

Paleontologists have discovered sets of fossils representing three new ichthyosaurs that may have been among the largest animals to have ever lived, reports a new...

Giant marine reptiles at 2,800 meters above sea level

The first ichthyosaurs swam through the primordial oceans in the early Triassic period about 250 million years ago. They had an elongated body and a...

Gene mutations that contribute to head and neck cancer also provide “precision” treatment targets

AUGUSTA, Ga. (April 28, 2022) – About one-fifth of often deadly head and neck cancers harbor genetic mutations in a pathway that is key to normal...

National University of Singapore, Quantum Engineering Programme and Keysight MOU signing ceremony

Keysight and Singapore’s Quantum Engineering Programme to accelerate research, development and education in quantum technologies

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading provider of advanced design and validation solutions, and Singapore’s Quantum Engineering Programme (QEP) have signed a Memorandum of...

Hype up fitness to support kids’ health post-lockdowns

As COVID-19 reaches record levels in the UK, health experts are calling for a focus on children’s physical fitness as new research reveals concerning changes...

Non-invasive examination of conjunctival goblet cells in live rabbits

A Korean research team led by Professor Ki Hean Kim, Ph.D. candidates Seonghan Kim and Jungbin Lee (Department of Mechanical Engineering) at POSTECH, in collaboration...

Give bidi cigarette rollers a voice to find new jobs, researchers say

India’s bidi cigarette workers need to be at the heart of discussions about finding alternatives to working in the tobacco industry, according to a new...

An epigenetic cause of miscarriages is identified and cured in mice

Researchers led by Azusa Inoue at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan have discovered a gene responsible for prenatal death when...

Inside the acidic environment of the stomach, pZCs remain in their associated state, but disassociate as they move into the intestine.

How to help the medicine go down: how UMass Amherst scientists are helping to engineer the next generation of medications

AMHERST, Mass. – Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced that they have engineered a new class of material, called a “polyzwitterionic complex,”...

Scientists implicate non-cardiac genes in congenital heart disease

CHAPEL HILL, NC – Inside embryonic cells, specific proteins control the rate at which genetic information is transcribed from DNA to messenger RNA – a...

Zeroing in on a new treatment for autism and epilepsy

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—April 27, 2022—Children with Dravet syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy that begins in infancy, experience seizures, usually for their entire life. They...

A refined microbiome “fingerprint” method tracks sub-strain variants of a single gut microbe strain

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Casey D. Morrow, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham previously developed a microbiome “fingerprint” method called WSS that...

Neuronal circuit involved in chronic pain-induced maladaptive anxiet

Neuronal plasticity in chronic pain-induced anxiety revealed