Hydrogen sulfide helps maintain your drive to breathe
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba find that a gas that smells like rotten eggs allows mammals to breathe easyCredit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan...
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Personal and financial costs of ADHD in Australia revealed
Credit: Oksana Mizina Researchers have revealed the key factors that can improve outcomes in children with ADHD, a disorder that costs Australia US$13 billion a...
City, University of London academics develop algorithm to analyse HeLa cancer cells
Dr Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro and Dr Cefa Karabag collaborate with the Francis Crick Institute on a novel approach published in the PLoS ONE journal, which...
Aged cell variations may control health and onset of age-related diseases
Credit: Professor Mitsuyoshi Nakao Researchers from Kumamoto University, Japan have proposed that cellular senescence variations during the aging process could lead to control of health...
A heart-breast cancer-on-a-chip monitoring system
Dual-organ system enables the measurement of cardiac toxicity arising from breast cancer chemotherapyCredit: Khademhosseini Laboratory (LOS ANGELES) - Breast cancer is the most commonly occurring...
High-thermoresistant biopolyimides become water-soluble like starch
Credit: JAIST This is the first report for the syntheses of water-soluble polyimides which are Interestingly derived from bio-based resources, showing high transparency, tunable mechanical...
National campaign to capture stories of hope and transformation through living donation
The Transplant Research and Education Center (TREC) and the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation, with support from Thermo Fisher Scientific, announce the kickoff of a...
Robots help to answer age-old question of why fish school
Credit: Dr Liang Li, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB) A fish school is a striking demonstration of synchronicity. Yet centuries of study have...
Research provides a new understanding of how a model insect species sees color
Credit: Camilla Sharkey Through an effort to characterize the color receptors in the eyes of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, University of Minnesota researchers discovered...
Single brain region links depression and anxiety, heart disease, and treatment sensitivity
The researchers used brain imaging to explore other brain regions affected by sgACC over-activity during threat. Over-activation of sgACC increased activity within the amygdala and...
Improved survival after obesity operation in patients with previous myocardial infarction
Credit: Carin Wesström Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Danderyd Hospital in Sweden have studied the risk of additional myocardial infarctions and early death in severely...
Concrete structure’s lifespan extended by a carbon textile
Construction costs reduced by 40%, while improving fire resistanceCredit: Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and...
Cause of Alzheimer’s disease traced to mutation in common enzyme
Mutation to MARK4 makes proteins stickier and more likely to clump in brainCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have...
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. to publish Journal of Correctional Health Care
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 23, 2020--The National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) (https://www.ncchc.org/) has awarded the contract to...
Exploring the source of stars and planets in a laboratory
Credit: Collage by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. A new method for verifying a widely held but unproven theoretical explanation of the formation of stars...
