New anti-clotting drugs linked to lower risk of serious bleeding
New drugs known as direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) used to treat serious blood clots are associated with reduced risks of ...
Expanding primary care buprenorphine treatment could curb opioid overdose crisis
Expanding the availability of medication treatment for opioid use disorder in primary care settings would be a major step toward ...
Stabilizing endothelial cells could help tackle vascular dementia
Researchers have discovered that stabilizing dysfunctional endothelial cells with approved drugs reverses cellular dysfunction in a rat model of cerebral ...
Brain study paves way for therapy for common cause of dementia
Scientists have uncovered a potential approach to treat one of the commonest causes of dementia and stroke in older people. ...
Combining antibiotics changes their effectiveness
Credit: Aleksandra Krolik/EMBL The effectiveness of antibiotics can be altered by combining them with each other, non-antibiotic drugs or even ...
ZooKeys celebrates 10 years at the forefront of zoological research with issue No. 770
Credit: S Kahlbrock Under the California sun in December, 2007, two entomologists - Prof Lyubomir Penev and Dr Terry Erwin ...
Researchers discover new enzyme paradigm for critical reaction in converting lignin to useful products
An international research team, including scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), has discovered ...
Ancestral people of Chaco Canyon likely grew their own food
Credit: Samantha Fladd/UC Researchers think they have a better understanding for how ancient North Americans thrived for centuries in northwestern ...
Personality pressure
For more than a century, scientists have understood that natural selection have profound effects on how an animal looks - ...
What’s in an egg? Oocyte factors that can reprogram adult cells
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 3, 2018-The promise of generating truly pluripotent stem cells from ...
Emerging gene editing approach seeks broad spectrum crop disease resistance
Credit: Texas A&M AgriLife Illustration by Gabe Saldana DALLAS -- A novel gene editing approach could hold the key to ...
UH Cancer Center renews NCI designation
Credit: UH Cancer Center The University of Hawai'i Cancer Center successfully competed for renewal of National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation, ...
New clues to sepsis may speed diagnosis
Sepsis is an infection that kills as many Americans each year as stroke and Alzheimer's combined-about 250,000-but very little has ...
Scientists identify mechanism that may explain why males are more at risk than females for neurodevelopmental disorders
Researchers have recently begun to realize that biological sex plays a key role in disease risk. Sex plays a role ...
A first look at interstitial fluid flow in the brain
Credit: Kingsmore et al. WASHINGTON, D.C., July 3, 2018 -- Interstitial fluid transports nutrients and removes waste between the organs ...
Researchers discover new enzyme paradigm for critical reaction researchers discover new enzyme paradigm for critical reaction in converting lignin to useful produce useful products
An international research team, including scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), has discovered ...
Boldly going where no plant has gone before
Credit: UK Research Communications LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 2, 2018) - Joe Chappell's latest venture in plant-based drug development could be ...
Can citizen science reverse the extinction of experience?
Credit: Matt Zeher Opportunities for people to interact with nature have declined over the past century, as most people now ...
Self-healing seed pods
Credit: Jessica Huss An international team of researchers including members of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces has ...
Study finds new genomic regions associated to weight gain in Nelore cattle
A pioneering research project has identified genes potentially associated with functions such as growth and weight gain in the Nelore ...
