TAMPA, Fla. (Feb. 4, 2022) -- The University of South Florida recently received a highly competitive National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institutional Training Grant (Award...
Beating the bite of mosquitoes this spring and summer could hinge on your attire and your skin. New research led by scientists at the University...
Research by Adeen Flinker and Müge Özker at New York University reports regions of the brain that signal when the speech we try to produce...
Improvements in air quality are associated with slower cognitive decline in women, according to a new study led by Diana Younan, of the University of...
Many bacteria and unicellular algae have light-driven pumps in their cell membranes: proteins that change shape when exposed to photons such that they can transport...
As humans fill the atmosphere with excess carbon dioxide, much of it gets absorbed by the oceans, acidifying them—a potential concern for marine life. According...
For decades, a small group of cutting-edge medical researchers have been studying a biochemical, DNA tagging system, which switches genes on or off. Many have...
The International Osteoporosis Foundation’s (IOF) Capture the Fracture® program, which this year proudly marks a decade of operation, has welcomed the 700th post-fracture care coordination program (commonly...
Obesity is known to cause cardiometabolic diseases like hypertension and diabetes but attributing these diseases to merely an overabundance of fat is a simplification. On...
A gene-silencing tool could enable new opportunities for advancing basic biomedical research and drug development.Credit: © 2022 KAUST; Veronica Moraru. A gene-silencing tool could enable...
We now know that the microbes that live in our intestines – our microbiome – influence our health in many ways. The balance among competing...
The World Health Organization projects that starting in 2030, over a million people will die each year from liver cancer. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor Adrian Krainer,...
An international team of researchers has discovered that Schwann cells—which are abundant in the peripheral nervous system and create a protective sheath around nerve fibers—play...
Previous studies have shown that wisdom is a personality trait underpinning mental health and well-being. Recently, researchers at University of California San Diego School of...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced that drug overdose deaths topped 100,000 for the first time in a one-year stretch. For...
