How the historically misunderstood amyloid helps to store memories
Credit: Si Lab, Stowers Institute for Medical Research KANSAS CITY, MO--For the first time, scientists from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and collaborators have...
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Fruit flies advance research on ACOX1-related neurodegenerative disorders
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A study led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reports that a hyperactive variant of enzyme ACOX1 produces elevated...
Treatment disparities drive worse outcomes for pediatric Black, Hispanic brain cancer pts
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Cancer researchers have known for years that Black and Hispanic patients have worse outcomes than their non-Hispanic White peers....
Three million euros in funding for new nano water filters
Bielefeld University heading EU project on ultra-thin membranesCredit: Photo: Bielefeld University Researchers and engineers from seven countries want to develop special filters on the nano...
Alcoholism without borders
How alcohol addiction spreads in post-Soviet countriesCredit: by S. Timonin, E. Andreev et al. In some former Soviet bloc countries, men often die early due...
Statins starve cancer cells to death
Credit: xiaoguang Li More than 35 million Americans take statin drugs daily to lower their blood cholesterol levels. Now, in experiments with human cells in...
Arrival delayed! Water, carbon and nitrogen were not immediately supplied to Earth
Credit: Kristoffer Szilas, University of Copenhagen Spearheaded by earth scientists of the University of Cologne, an international team of geologists has found evidence that a...
At 8 months, babies already know their grammar
Credit: © Caterina Marino / CNRS / INCC Even before uttering their first words, babies master the grammar basics of their mother tongue. Thus eight-month-old...
Aerial insect trap network describes life in the skies
Credit: Doris Lagos-Kutz, USDA-ARS and University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Like most invasive species, when the soybean aphid arrived in the Midwest in 2000,...
The need for speed
Zebrafish study at NCBSCredit: Vatsala Thirumalai Whether running away from a predator or to win an Olympic gold, how fast we run determines the final...
Bacteria might help other bacteria to tolerate antibiotics better
A study by the the Dynamical Systems Biology lab reveals that when the 2 species of bacteria coexist, their response to the antibiotic is opposite...
Robots popular with older adults
Psychologists at the University of Jena (Germany) study relationships between humans and machinesCredit: (Image: Anne Guenther/FSU Jena) (Jena, Germany) A world without robots is now...
Digital tools for agriculture
Credit: (Photo: Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture / Felix Zahn, photothek.net) Germany is getting a lot of rain in these days of March. Farmers...
Uninsured older adults more likely to be sicker and in need of inpatient care in China
Being single, remote and lacking a pension also linked to poor access to healthcareCredit: Shen (Lamson) Lin A new study, published this week in the...
Hair in ‘stress’: Analyze with care
Common hormone analysis in animal hair can lead to overestimated cortisol levelsCredit: Jan Zwilling Similar to humans, wild animals' reaction to disturbance is accompanied by...
