New kangaroo described – from PNG
Australian palaeontologists from Flinders University have described a new genus of giant fossil kangaroo from the mountains of central Papua New Guinea.Credit: Artwork courtesy Peter...
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Atrial fibrillation after surgery is linked to an increased risk of hospitalization for heart failure
People who develop an abnormal heart rhythm after surgery have an increased risk of subsequently being admitted to hospital with heart failure, according to a...
Dr. Maria Kontaridis of MMRI elected a fellow of the Nonprofit International Society for Heart Research
UTICA, NY — To be recognized by one’s peers is especially important in the world of medical research, and one local scientist has been recognized...
Who trusts gene-edited foods? New study gauges public acceptance
AMES, IA – Through CRISPR and other gene-editing technologies, researchers and developers are poised to bring dozens – if not hundreds – of new products...
$5.3 million grant supports research into lung cancer recurrence
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are leading a national study aimed at identifying patients with early-stage lung cancer who are...
University of Cincinnati enrolling patients for PTSD clinical trials
About 8% of Americans will experience post-traumatic stress disorder at some point in their lives, but there are still few effective options to treat the...
Double duty: Early research reveals how a single drug delivers twice the impact in fragile X
Like many neurological diseases, there’s a lot we don’t understand about fragile X syndrome. But, after studying the disorder for several years, Lynne Maquat’s lab knew two...
MU researcher earns Fulbright grant to boost community engagement efforts in South Africa
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Having grown up poor with five siblings in a rural Zimbabwe village, Wilson Majee was the only member of his family to...
Physicists confront the neutron lifetime puzzle
To solve a long-standing puzzle about how long a neutron can “live” outside an atomic nucleus, physicists entertained a wild but testable theory positing the...
Scientists prevent “exhaustion” in cancer-fighting T cells
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—When faced with a formidable foe for months on end, the immune system’s T cells begin to tire. Whether fighting a cancer or a...
Belgian researchers explain why people with lower economic status don’t trust politicians as much
The ‘anomie’ concept – that the society is disintegrating and losing moral standards – explains why people with low socio-economic status trust politics less than...
Study finds low vitamin D levels in young people of color
Results from a University of Houston College of Nursing study indicate that 61% of otherwise healthy Black and Hispanic adolescents have low vitamin D levels,...
Role identified for key gene in developmental disability syndrome
DURHAM, NC – A single gene that was previously found to be the driving force in a rare syndrome linked to epilepsy, autism and developmental...
Spinal fractures in the elderly are preventable with simple X-rays
Among older people, vertebral compression fractures are very common, and those with such fractures are at high risk of incurring new ones. Findings in a...
Researchers perform non-line-of-sight ghost imaging with human vision
WASHINGTON — Researchers have shown that the computational imaging technique known as ghost imaging can be combined with human vision to image an object that...
