Friends who are former smokers are key to helping people with serious mental illness quit
Credit: Dartmouth Institute People with serious mental illness (SMI) have a reduced life expectancy of up to 25 years compared ...
ASU receives multimillion grant from NSF to create a national biorepository
The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) has named Arizona State University as its primary location to house a national biorepository ...
Shrimp heal injured fish
James Cook University scientists in Australia have discovered that shrimp help heal injured fish. PhD student David Vaughan is working ...
Handheld imager poised to provide new insights into eye and brain diseases
Credit: Theodore DuBose, Duke University WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed and demonstrated the first handheld ophthalmology instrument with resolution-boosting adaptive ...
Who owns the world? 50 years of commons research
Fifty years ago, US ecologist Garret Hardin launched a global debate. In his essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" he ...
Biomimetic chemistry: Carbohydrate capture
LMU chemist Professor Ivan Huc, who heads a research group devoted to the study of Biomimetic Supramolecular Chemistry, has designed ...
Researchers develop cryopreservation method of ladybird beetle ovaries
Credit: NIBB A new study has found an effective way to cryopreserve - preservation by cooling to very low temperature ...
Polymer antibodies efficiently target and eliminate cancer cells
Credit: F. Canfarotto et al./Nano Letters A joint research team from Russia and the U.K. has demonstrated the possibility of ...
New research proposes using local data in resolving malnutrition
(August 23, 2018) Kwashiorkor, one of the most extreme forms of malnutrition, is estimated to affect more than a hundred ...
Kelp forests function differently in warming ocean
Kelp forests in the UK and the wider North-East Atlantic will experience a marked change in ecosystem functioning in response ...
How healthy is the American diet? The Healthy Eating Index helps determine the answer
Credit: Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Philadelphia, August 23, 2018 - Dietary risk factors are among the ...
Bird feared extinct rediscovered in the Bahamas
Credit: Matthew Gardner, University of East Anglia One of the rarest birds in the western hemisphere, the Bahama Nuthatch, has ...
Fish lice could be early indicators of metal pollution in freshwater
Credit: Prof Annemariè Avenant-Oldewage, Department of Zoology, University of Johannesburg. Everyone needs safe and clean water to drink. Yet industry, ...
Caution needed when prescribing antibiotics to hypertension patients, study finds
Rockville, Md. (August 23, 2018)--Individual variations in genetic makeup and gut bacteria may explain the different effects of antibiotics on ...
Tracking Sargassum’s ocean path could help predict coastal inundation events
Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science/Victoria Coles CAMBRIDGE, MD (August 23, 2018)--The word Sargassum conjures up images of ...
Advanced microscope technology reveals novel side to cell signaling complex
Credit: The Li laboratory, UT Southwestern DALLAS - Aug. 23, 2018 - Sometimes it pays to take a closer look ...
Viral outbreaks could be predicted two years in advance by mathematical model
Scientists have identified the cause of outbreaks of enterovirus, one of the most prevalent types of virus in the world. ...
Researchers identify link between gut bacteria and eating for pleasure, as opposed to hunger
Credit: Gilles Mingasson FINDINGS A study of 63 healthy people showed that those with elevated microbiome levels of the metabolite ...
Researchers test autobiographical memory for early Alzheimer’s detection
Testing how well people remember past events in their lives could help medical professionals make early predictions about who is ...
New $3.2 million grant to probe secrets of cell death in Alzheimer’s
Credit: Graphic by Shireen Dooling Most neurons in the human brain live out their lives, enduring the processes of aging ...
