Too near, or too far? What fruit flies teach us about personal space
Credit: Anne F. Simon, Western University, Canada Most of us have had the experience of backing away when someone has ...
The way breast cancer genes act could predict your treatment
Credit: G.L. Kohuth, Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan State University breast cancer researcher has shown that ...
Zika virus: Optimized tests for reliable diagnosis
Credit: cdc/Cynthia Goldsmith DZIF scientists from the University of Bonn have shown that not all conventional Zika virus molecular diagnostic ...
New dominant ant species discovered in Ethiopia shows potential for global invasion
Credit: D. Magdalena Sorger RALEIGH, N.C. — A team of scientists conducting a recent biodiversity survey in the ancient church ...
Medical professors question ‘residency placement fever’
Credit: Brown University For people with a greater than 50 percent chance of landing their top job choice and a ...
Investigational immunotherapeutic increased bladder cancer survival
Background: Noguchi explained that immunotherapy has emerged recently as a viable and attractive strategy for the treatment of advanced cancer. ...
Public wheat breeder consortium to be developed by USDA grant
Credit: (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Kay Ledbetter) AMARILLO – Texas A&M AgriLife Research's wheat genetic and breeding programs will ...
UM Rosenstiel school scientists awarded over $14 million to advance…
Credit: UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science MIAMI – Researchers at the UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and ...
Targeted orphaned domain may lead to drug therapies
Credit: Credit TTUHSC "Pentameric quaternary structure of the intracellular domain of serotonin type 3A receptors," was published in the April ...
Mothers often distracted during breast and bottle feeding
Credit: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior PHILADELPHIA, PA, July 6, 2017 – As innovation expands the accessibility of technology, ...
Mount Sinai Heart director discusses population health promotion and a stratified approach…
Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Director of Mount Sinai Heart and Physician-in-Chief of The Mount Sinai Hospital joined a panel of ...
What free will looks like in the brain
Johns Hopkins University researchers are the first to glimpse the human brain making a purely voluntary decision to act. Unlike ...
Head partitions reduce stress in goats during feeding
Competition in the goat pen is especially high during feeding time. Social tension rises and there is an increased frequency ...
How Snapdragons keep their colour: Signposting trick reveals evolutionary mechanism
Credit: Professor Enrico Coen A study of the colour patterns among wild flowers in a mountain valley has yielded a ...
Queen’s University microbiologists unmask the Hannibal route enigma
Microbiologists based in the Institute for Global Food Security and School of Biological Sciences at Queen's University Belfast have recently ...
Biogerontology Research Foundation trustee to keynote at the Digital…
Credit: Digital Health World Congress Friday, November 24th, 2017, London, UK: The Biogerontology Research Foundation is pleased to announce that ...
New method predicts who will respond to lithium therapy
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA — (March 20, 2017) For roughly one-third of people diagnosed with bipolar disorder, lithium is ...
Light exposure in the evening improves performance in the final spurt
Credit: University of Basel, Department of Sport, Exercise and Health Athletes often have to compete late in the evening, when ...
Yoga and meditation improve mind-body health and stress resilience
Many people report positive health effects from practicing yoga and meditation, and experience both mental and physical benefits from these ...
New supercomputer simulations enhance understanding of protein motion and function
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 23, 2015–Supercomputing simulations at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could change how researchers ...
