New ‘scaly’ snails species group following striking discoveries from Malaysian Borneo
Credit: Siti Khadijah Reduan Six new species of unique land snails whose shells are covered with what look like scales have been described from the...
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Finding a weak link in the frightful parasite Schistosoma
Credit: Bo Wang, Stanford University The parasitic disease schistosomiasis is one of the developing world's worst public health scourges, affecting hundreds of millions of people,...
Ban plastic to save the heritage of world’s oldest and largest inhabited river island
Credit: Queen's University Belfast A Queen's University Belfast researcher is working with an Indian community to transform the world's largest and oldest inhabited river island...
The relationship between alcohol outlets and traffic crashes
A new study by the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation examines the relationship between the number and location of...
Purdue startup developing novel treatment for life-threatening lung condition
Credit: Davis Arick, Spirrow Therapeutics WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University-affiliated startup developing a novel treatment for a life-threatening lung condition known as acute...
California’s cap-and-trade air quality benefits mostly go out of state
Credit: Tony Webster, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) During the first three years of California's five-year-old cap-and-trade program, the bulk of greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions...
New report says individual research results should be shared with participants more often
WASHINGTON - When conducting research involving the testing of human biospecimens, investigators and their institutions should routinely consider whether and how to return individual research...
Biochemists discover cause of genome editing failures with hyped CRISPR system
Credit: Ryan Clarke, et al Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago are the first to describe why CRISPR gene editing sometimes fails to...
Barbara B. Kahn, M.D. receives 2019 FASEB Excellence in Science Award
Credit: BIDMC Barbara B. Kahn, MD, will receive the 2019 FASEB Excellence in Science Award. Kahn is Vice Chair for Research Strategy in the Department...
Researchers prevent, reverse renal injury by inhibiting immune-regulating molecule
Special cells called podocytes aid the kidneys as they clean the blood and balance the body's fluid levels. Podocytes filter blood as it passes through...
Carbon is the new black
Credit: Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative Services Engineers with the University of Cincinnati are leveraging a partnership with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to create clothing that...
The ‘Big Bang’ of Alzheimer’s: Scientists ID genesis of disease
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - July 10, 2018 - Scientists have discovered a "Big Bang" of Alzheimer's disease - the precise point at which a...
Can nanoparticles be used to lower antibiotic resistance?
Credit: University of Houston Antibiotic resistance is one of the world's most serious threats to public health, forcing the use of medications that are more...
Differences in the mouths of youth born with HIV may increase their risk of dental decay
A team of scientists from The Forsyth Institute, a global leader in oral health research, in collaboration with the NIH-funded Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS),...
Patients with early kidney cancer benefit from robotic partial nephrectomy
Credit: Ricardo Carrasco III LOS ANGELES - For patients with early kidney cancer, removing part of the kidney instead of the whole kidney is often...
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