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Many of us will have likely heard of music therapy and art therapy — but what about ‘travel therapy’? Credit: N/A Many of us will have...

Inside the jellyfish’s sting: Exploring the micro-architecture of a cellular weapon

KANSAS CITY, MO—June 17, 2022—Summertime beachgoers are all too familiar with the painful reality of a jellyfish sting. But how do the stinging cells of...

Increase in leptin levels in preeclampsia prompts cardiovascular cascade that puts mother and baby at risk

AUGUSTA, Ga. (June 23, 2022) – Before a baby is ever born, critical supply chain problems with nutrition and oxygen can result in premature birth or...

Simulated effects of Shanghai’s pesticide use reduction policy on the environment and food security

Study shows that getting pesticide reduction policies right is crucial for food security

The term peri-urban agriculture is generally used to describe the cultivation of plants and livestock on the fringes of large population centres. However, factors such as urban expansion,...

Zoonotic disease risk to non-traditional pet owners

Contact with non-traditional pets increases the risk of exposure to zoonotic pathogens, which are pathogens that spread between animals and people. The National Association of...

UCLA surgeons develop new technique to reduce Adam’s apple without neck scar

Doctors at the UCLA Gender Health Program have developed a technique to reduce an Adam’s apple bump without leaving a scar on the patient’s neck.Credit: UCLA Gender...

Figure CEP: Notch activity (green) in embryonic brain stem cells (magenta).

The mechanisms regulating the balance between the formation of neurons and the maintenance of stem cells in the formation of the brain revealed

Anew study by the Neuronal Dynamics Research Group at UPF has elucidated the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate the balance between the differentiation of neurons and...

Mount Sinai researchers learn that ALS may be linked to both the immune and central nervous systems

The immune system may play a fundamental role along with the central nervous system in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as “Lou Gehrig’s disease,”...

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day recognized for decades of outreach

On June 16, 1995, when the World Wide Web was young, two gamma-ray astronomers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, launched a...

Attitudes around older motherhood too often emphasize risk and pregnancy timing, Concordia researcher says

Cdn policy papers consistently treat older #mothers as problems, highlighting (real) health risks but also presenting them as unnatural and irresponsible reproductive citizensIn current policy texts, medical...

41-year-old woman with invasive ductal carcinoma (G2, luminal B) of right breast

Contrast-enhanced mammography vs. MRI: Neoadjuvant therapy response in breast cancer

Leesburg, VA, June 22, 2022—According to ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) may be a useful alternative test for neoadjuvant therapy (NAT)...

In the 2020 US House of Representatives elections, Democrats supporting the Green New Deal increased their vote share

In the 2020 U.S. House of Representatives Elections, Democrats supporting the Green New Deal increased their vote share.Credit: Joshua Sukoff, Unsplash, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) In the...

Almost half of surveyed Ghanaian adults exhibited stigma and discriminatory tendencies towards COVID-19 survivors – indicating a need for public education

Almost half of surveyed Ghanaian adults exhibited stigma and discriminatory tendencies towards COVID-19 survivors - indicating a need for public educationCredit: Rod Long, Unsplash, CC0...

Hockey skates, puck, gloves and stick next to a goal.

Despite claims, there is “no quantifiable evidence” that in-game NHL fighting deters more undesirable violence, per analysis of a decade of hockey penalties

Despite claims, there is "no quantifiable evidence" that in-game NHL fighting deters more undesirable violence, per analysis of a decade of hockey penaltiesCredit: Mariah Hewines,...

Word cloud of common words used in tweets.

Over 40,000 Twitter users used pandemic misinformation hashtags “Scamdemic” or “Plandemic” in 2020 in over 220,000 tweets – and a fifth of these accounts were suspended by Twitter by January 2021