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Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS -- In a paper published in Biochemical Pharmacology, Saint Louis University researchers examined the ...

New study shines light on photosynthesis

Terry Bricker, Moreland Family Professor in the Louisiana State University (LSU) Department of Biological Sciences, and colleagues at Palacký University ...

Helping women progress in traditionally male dominated fields

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed recommendations to improve female progression in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) ...

First underwater video footage of the True’s beaked whale

(PeerJ) The True's beaked whale is a deep-diving mammal so rarely seen that it often defies recognition at sea by ...

Male infertility research reveals how a new life begins

Research into a genetic mutation causing some men to be infertile shows that an important protein in the sperm that ...

Towards mastering terahertz waves?

Credit: ©UNIGE The terahertz waves span frequency ranges between the infrared spectrum (used, for example, for night vision) and gigahertz ...

Fruit flies halt reproduction during infection

A protective mechanism that allows fruit flies to lay fewer eggs in response to bacterial infection is explained in a ...

Targeted Anticancer Therapies (TAT) Congress becomes an annual ESMO event

Lugano, 7 March 2017 - ESMO, the leading European organisation for medical oncology, has announced it will take over the ...

Lifestyle choices condition colon and rectal cancer risk more than genetics

Credit: IDIBELL Researchers of the Colorectal Cancer research group of Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), led by Dr. Víctor Moreno, ...

New research shows crude oil chemicals move and change more quickly than EPA standards

Credit: Parichehr Saranjampour, LSU The Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, lists about 65 chemicals as "toxic pollutants" under the Clean ...

Evidence lacking to support ‘lead diet’

Credit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. - For years, parents of children with high blood lead concentrations have been advised ...

Inflammation in regeneration: A friend or foe?

Credit: Tokyo Institute of techonology Regeneration is an inherent property of life. However, the potential to regenerate differs across species: ...

Early deaths from childhood cancer up to 4 times more common than previously reported

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Treatments for childhood cancers have improved to the point that 5-year survival rates are ...

Study shows US grasslands affected more by atmospheric dryness than precipitation

A new study showing dryness of the atmosphere affects U.S. grassland productivity more than rainfall could have important implications for ...

Available drug may protect ovaries and fertility from damage by chemotherapies

Loading video... Credit: NYU Langone Medical Center A drug already used to slow tumor growth may also prevent infertility caused ...

Robot uses social feedback to fetch objects intelligently

Credit: Nick Dentamaro / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- If someone asks you to hand them a wrench from a ...

Proper movements in Muslim prayer ritual can reduce lower back pain

Credit: Mohammad Khasawneh BINGHAMTON, NY- Five times a day, roughly 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide, bow, kneel, and place their foreheads ...

Cancer ‘hot spots’ in Florida may be associated with hazardous waste sites

Credit: Justin Kelley/MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (March 6, 2017) -- Studies have shown that hazardous waste sites have the potential ...

Vesicle formation findings could pave way for liquid biopsies, drug delivery devices

Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Engineers at Carnegie Mellon University and biomedical researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Magee-Womens Research ...

New materials could turn water into the fuel of the future