Simple sugar possible therapy for repairing myelin in multiple sclerosis
Credit: UCI School of Medicine Irvine, CA - Oct. 7, 2020 - N-acetylglucosamine, a simple sugar found in human breast milk and sold as an...
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Oral cancer pain predicts likelihood of cancer spreading
Research identifies genes highly expressed in painful, metastatic oral cancer, revealing mechanism for cancer painCredit: Chuy Gutierrez Oral cancer is more likely to spread in...
New approach helps EMTs better assess chest pain en route to hospital
Credit: Wake Forest Baptist WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Oct. 7, 2020 - Is this person with chest pain having a heart attack? That's a question EMTs...
High-speed photos shine a light on how metals fail
By combining experimental and theoretical work, researchers discover what happens when metals are stretched to their yield pointCredit: Aalto University How things deform and break...
New biomarker to prevent graft-versus-host disease in stem cell transplants discovered
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers uncover a new biomarker whose activity can be blocked to prevent graft-versus-host disease following hematopoietic stem cell transplantationCredit: Alpine Immune...
UMD researchers develop tools to sharpen 3D view of large RNA molecules
New technique breaks through a technology roadblock that limited RNA imaging for 50 yearsCredit: Kwaku Dayie/University of Maryland University of Maryland scientists have developed a...
Paleontologists identify new species of mosasaur
Ancient lizard's long, crocodile-like snout suggests it carved out a niche in a competitive marine ecosystem.Credit: Tatsuya Shinmura) A new species of an ancient marine...
Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Credit: UC Berkeley Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, a professor at UC Berkeley and faculty scientist at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab),...
Aerodynamicists reveal link between fish scales and aircraft drag
City, University of London's Professor Christoph Bruecker and his team have transferred the idea of fish scales to arrays of bio-inspired scales which are capable...
Broken promises: Almost 80% of threatened species lack sufficient protection
Credit: TJ Watt A failure by governments to deliver on commitments under a global nature conservation treaty, the Convention on Biological Diversity, could have devastating...
Feline friendly? How to build rap-paw with your cat – new psychology study
Credit: Prof Karen McComb University of Sussex A team of psychologists at the Universities of Sussex and Portsmouth have purr-fected the art of building a...
RUDN University soil scientists: Green suburbs can be more harmful than city centers
Credit: RUDN University A team of soil scientists from RUDN University confirmed that traditional approaches to urban soil pollution monitoring ignore actual risks for urban...
First relatives of rubella virus discovered in bats in Uganda and mice in Germany
Credit: Emily Julka MADISON, Wis. -- At night in a Ugandan forest, a team of American and African scientists take oral swabs from insect-eating cyclops...
Climate change could mean fewer sunny days for hot regions banking on solar power
Credit: Image courtesy of Jun Yin, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology While solar power is a leading form of renewable energy, new research...
Fighting intestinal infections with the body’s own endocannabinoids
Native chemicals similar to those found in cannabis can inhibit bacterial virulence, study led by UTSW researchers suggestsCredit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - Oct....
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