Chemical ‘caryatids’ improve the stability of metal-organic frameworks
Credit: B. Smit/EPFL "Metal-organic frameworks" (MOFs) are materials with nano-sized pores in their crystal structure. These pores allow MOFs to ...
New research shows why nutrition should be back on the table for surgical patients
Credit: Abbott Implementing a nutrition care program for malnourished surgical patients showed a nearly 50 percent reduction in readmission rates, ...
American swamp sparrows have sung the same songs for more than 1,000 years
Credit: Robert Lachlan American swamp sparrows may have sung the same songs for more than 1,000 years and passed them ...
Birds have time-honored traditions, too
Credit: Photo by Robert Lachlan. DURHAM , N.C. -- What makes human cultural traditions unique? One common answer is that ...
Do bats adapt to gates at abandoned mines?
Abandoned mines can serve as roost sites for bats, but because the mines pose serious risks to humans, officials often ...
Innovative autonomous system for identifying schools of fish
Credit: @IMDEA Networks Institute The University of Haifa (Israel) and two teams from the IMDEA Networks Institute have developed an ...
Whether wheat weathers heat waves
Credit: Piotr Trebicki A heat wave sweeps through a city and people swelter, running indoors to find air conditioning. But ...
IASLC issues statement paper on liquid biopsy for lung cancer
DENVER - The lungs can be a difficult organ to biopsy with a needle, so the promise of identifying lung ...
New ‘e-dermis’ brings sense of touch, pain to prosthetic hands
Credit: Science Robotics/AAAS Amputees often experience the sensation of a "phantom limb"--a feeling that a missing body part is still ...
American Psychological Association’s 126th Annual Convention Aug. 9 – 12, 2018, San Francisco
The American Psychological Association's 126th annual convention will take place Aug. 9-12, 2018, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. ...
DNA barcodes that reliably work: A game-changer for biomedical research
Credit: Richard Wheeler (Zephyris). Used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. In the same way that barcodes on your ...
Rhesus macaque model offers route to study Zika brain pathology
Rhesus macaque monkeys infected in utero with Zika virus develop similar brain pathology to human infants, according to a report ...
Emergency department patients want to be invited to share in medical decision-making
DES PLAINES, IL--Most emergency department patients want to be involved in some aspects of medical decision-making, but they need to ...
Cell-free DNA profiling informative way to monitor urinary tract infections
ITHACA, N.Y. - Using shotgun DNA sequencing, Cornell University researchers have demonstrated a new method for monitoring urinary tract infections ...
UA researchers develop novel ‘lung-on-a-leaf’ model to study pulmonary diseases
Credit: UA College of Medicine - Phoenix Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix have developed ...
The World’s tiniest first responders
Credit: Yekaterina Kadyshevskaya, USC The cell has its own paramedic team and emergency room to aid and repair damaged DNA, ...
In mice, stem cells seem to work in fighting obesity! What about stem cells in humans?
Obesity is an increasing global health problem associated with several comorbidities and a high risk of mortality. A wide spectrum ...
Rare in-vivo study shows weak brain nodes have strong influence on memory network
Our ability to learn, remember, problem solve, and speak are all cognitive functions related to different parts of our brain. ...
Potential to replace race as a risk factor for kidney-transplant failure
Credit: Children's National Health System Right now, more than 100,000 adult and pediatric patients in the U.S. are waiting for ...
New therapeutic opportunity for the treatment of resistant malignant melanoma
(University of Liege) Researchers have revealed that malignant melanoma can reprogram their protein synthesis machinery and become addicted to a ...
