What’s your poison? Scrupulous scorpions tailor venom to target
Scorpions adapt their stinging, stingers and sting contents to minimize the costs of venom use Replenishing venom takes time and energy - so it pays...
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‘Green Revolution’ in RNAi tools and therapeutics
Plant-derived silencing RNAs inhibit HBsAg expression in mice "Green revolution" in the early 1950s, the extensive cultivation of Dwarf Rice solves the food problem in...
When it comes to food, one size doesn’t fit all: world’s largest scientific nutrition research project reveals even identical twins have different responses to food
Novel findings presented at the American Society of Nutrition and the American Diabetes Association conferences BOSTON and LONDON - June 10, 2019. The first results...
Clarifying the economic value of adjusting the power consumption
Development of analysis and control technologies focusing on time-varying power generation costs Since the output of renewable energy such as photovoltaic generation tends to fluctuate,...
Engineers use graph networks to accurately predict properties of molecules and crystals
Credit: Chi Chen/Materials Virtual Lab Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed new deep learning models that can accurately predict the properties...
What if dark matter is lighter? Report calls for small experiments to broaden the hunt
Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley scientists are already pursuing new experiments to probe for low-mass dark matter particlesCredit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab The search for dark...
How to improve care for patients with disabilities? We need more providers like them
Increasing workforce diversity is critical for addressing healthcare disparitiesCredit: Johns Hopkins Medicine It is common for patients to prefer seeking care from a clinician similar...
Three public health interventions could prevent 94 million premature deaths
Key takeaways: Lowering blood pressure, reducing sodium intake, and eliminating trans fat could prevent 94 million early deaths around the world. Although scaling up the...
Undetected diabetes linked to heart attack and gum disease
People with undetected glucose disorders run a higher risk of both myocardial infarction and periodontitis, according to a study published in the journal Diabetes Care...
Supportive families and schools help prevent substance use among trans youth: UBC study
Credit: University of British Columbia Strong family and school connections are helping prevent transgender youth from smoking cigarettes and using marijuana, even among those targeted...
Chickenpox vaccination lowers risk of pediatric shingles
Kaiser Permanente-led study of more than 6 million children showed routine varicella vaccine considerably lessened likelihood of painful shingles disease Oakland, Calif. - Children who...
Waning potency of pertussis vaccine a significant contributor to recent whooping cough outbreaks
New Kaiser Permanente study suggests under-vaccination is only one factor contributing to whooping cough outbreaks Oakland, Calif. -- In a large new Kaiser Permanente study,...
Body fat distribution linked to higher risk of aggressive prostate cancer
In the first prospective study of directly measured body fat distribution and prostate cancer risk, investigators found that higher levels of abdominal and thigh fat...
Survey: Majority of current gun owners support the sale of personalized guns
Despite support for the technology, current gun owners are not likely to purchase these guns themselves if they were available in the US A new...
Canadian pediatric emergency department crowding not linked to death, serious adverse outcomes
Visiting a crowded pediatric emergency department in Canada may increase the likelihood of being hospitalized but is not linked to delayed hospitalization or death in...
