From obesity to liver cancer: Can we prevent the worst?
By identifying the role of a specific protein in the development of obesity-related liver diseases, UNIGE researchers pave the way for better diagnosis, and potentially...
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Neighborhood features and one’s genetic makeup interact to affect cognitive function
FAU study first to examine how neighborhood environment affects cognition based on one's genetic risk for Alzheimer's, dementiaCredit: Florida Atlantic University The neighborhood environment may...
Prenatal phthalate exposure associated with autistic traits in young boys
UMass Amherst study found folic acid supplementation in early pregnancy protected against chemicals' effectsCredit: UMass Amherst Exposure in the womb to phthalates, a group of...
Sweet beaks: What Galapagos finches and marine bacteria have in common
Closely related, abundant clades of marine Polaribacter avoid competition during spring algae blooms via distinct sugar dietsCredit: Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology / I....
Time-resolved measurement in a memory device
Credit: IMEC At the Department for Materials of the ETH in Zurich, Pietro Gambardella and his collaborators investigate tomorrow's memory devices. They should be fast,...
Count me out of counting seeds
Credit: Matthew Bertucci One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five. Over and over and over. That's the dull routine of any researcher...
Mixed-signal hardware security thwarts powerful electromagnetic attacks
Purdue innovators are at Silicon Valley's premier chip-design conference to unveil technology that is 100 times more resilient to electromagnetic attacks to secure Internet of...
Rice boosts ‘internet of things’ security — again
Engineers' custom circuits would make systems 14,000 times harder to crack than current techCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb. 18, 2020) - Rice University...
Improving the electrical and mechanical properties of carbon-nanotube-based fibers
Researchers recently developed a technique that can be used to build carbon-nanotube-based fibers by creating chemical crosslinks; the technique improves the electrical and mechanical properties...
IU researcher makes skin cancer discovery
Scientist identifies new areas in human genomes linked to riskCredit: IU School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indiana University cancer researcher has identified eight new...
Chemists use mass spectrometry tools to determine age of fingerprints
Credit: Photo by Christopher Gannon/Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - Fingerprints are telling us more and more about the people that left them behind. Sure,...
Why Zika virus caused most harmful brain damage to Brazilian newborns
Findings help explain why microcephaly cases less common in other Zika outbreaksCredit: Kevin Noguchi Due to Zika virus, more than 1,600 babies were born in...
Can metformin reduce obesity in children and adolescents?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 18, 2020--A new study has shown metformin - a glucose-lowering drug commonly used to treat...
University of Utah Health launches fast DNA testing to speed care of critically-ill babies
Credit: Charlie Ehlert University of Utah Health today announced the launch of a project with a goal of quickly and accurately detecting genetic disorders among...
Targeting turncoat immune cells to treat cancer
Credit: Ludwig Cancer Research FEBRUARY 18, 2020, NEW YORK -- A Ludwig Cancer Research study has identified a mechanism by which regulatory T cells, which...
