NASA takes an infrared analysis of Tropical Cyclone Oma
Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson An infrared look by NASA's Aqua satellite revealed where the strongest storms were located within the Southern Pacific Ocean's Tropical...
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Price transparency helps Arizona health system achieve financial turnaround
February 21, 2018 - Efforts to understand costs and openly share information on healthcare prices played a key role in a major Arizona health system's...
UTA grants to enhance nation’s only university-based, arc-heated, hypersonic wind tunnel
Like the windCredit: UT Arlington The University of Texas at Arlington's new arc-heated, hypersonic wind tunnel, one of just a handful of its kind in...
New drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy clears phase 1 clinical trial testing in boys
Medication targets NF-κB, a key link between loss of dystrophin and disease progression Amsterdam, February 21, 2019 - Patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) have...
10 percent of Chinese adults have high heart disease risk, aren’t treated for it
New Haven, Conn. - Researchers at Yale and at the National Center for Cardiovascular Disease in China just quantified a significant opportunity to improve Chinese...
Researchers discover a genetic defect linked to pediatric liver disease
AURORA, Colo. (Feb. 21, 2019) - Researchers from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, in collaboration with several other institutions, have discovered a genetic...
Smoking cessation may reduce risk of rheumatoid arthritis
Analysis of data demonstrates first time that behavior change can delay or prevent most severe form of rheumatoid arthritis Boston, MA -- Smoking is an...
CLEAR at UTA continues collaboration with the Apache Corporation
Analyzing surface, groundwaterCredit: UT Arlington The Collaborative Laboratories for Environmental Analysis and Remediation at The University of Texas at Arlington has extended its collaboration with...
Women with more social support are less likely to die, new study finds
Credit: George Mason University Fairfax, VA - Women aged 50-79 who believed they had more social support were less likely to die during the course...
63rd Biophysical Society Annual Meeting to kick-off in Baltimore from March 2 — 6, 2019
BALTIMORE, MD - As science becomes increasingly interdisciplinary, the Biophysical Society (BPS) Annual Meeting continues its long-held reputation for bringing together leading scientists from the...
How plants learned to save water
Credit: Stephan Liebig Tiny pores on the leaves of plants, called stomata, have a huge influence on the state of our planet. Through the stomata,...
Dermal disruption: Amphibian skin bacteria is more diverse in cold, variable environments
Global survey of frog skin bacteria reveals microbiome rules of thumbCredit: Credit: Miguel Vences Amphibians are victims of lethal skin-disease epidemics. In the first global-scale...
New strategy improves efficiency of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 21, 2019--The efficiency of CRISPR genome editing tools targeted to the site of interest by...
Good news: Habitats worthy of protection in Germany are protected
Credit: Simone Langhans The world's largest coordinated network of protected areas is not located at the South Pole or in Australia, Africa, Asia or on...
How to treat depression in prison — and why it matters
First randomized study of its kind reveals effective treatment for prisoners suffering from mental illnessCredit: Royalty free image via Pexels Of the 4 million prisoners...
