Levels of total cholesterol, LDL-C, triglycerides continue to decline among US adults
In a study published online by JAMA Cardiology, Asher Rosinger, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ...
Researchers identify cause for lower-extremity overgrowths in obese patients
CHICAGO (November 30, 2016): Morbidly obese individuals--those whose weight is more than double normal weight--are prone to overgrowths in their ...
An agent used to treat psoriasis may be aimed at the wrong target
Credit: Helmholtz Zentrum München The antibody ustekinumab is being used successfully for the treatment of psoriasis since 2009. It inhibits ...
1.3m study could pave way for therapies to repair spinal cord
(University of Edinburgh) Brain scientists are using tropical fish to investigate how the spinal cord can be coaxed to repair ...
Using ecosystem services in municipality planning: Lessons from Sweden
Credit: Palo et al. (2016) In the context of increasing land use and climate change, municipality planning faces a growing ...
Earth’s ‘technosphere’ now weighs 30 trillion tons, research finds
Credit: University of Leicester The planet's technosphere now weighs some 30 trillion tons - a mass of more than 50 ...
Going against the grain — nitrogen turns out to be hypersociable!
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski Going against the grain - nitrogen turns out to be hypersociable! Nitrogen is everywhere: even ...
Even mildly excessive body iron stores increase the risk of type 2 diabetes
Even mildly elevated body iron contributes to the prevalence and incidence of type 2 diabetes, according to research from the ...
Young cancer survivors have twice the risk of suicide
Credit: Kim E. Andreassen This is the result of a national cohort study by researcher and medical doctor Maria Winther ...
Vital vaccine could ‘reduce burden’ of dengue disease in hardest-hit regions
The first licensed vaccine for the potentially life-threatening dengue virus should only be used in moderate-to high impacted regions, new ...
Zika and glaucoma linked for first time in new study
New Haven, Conn. -- A team of researchers in Brazil and at the Yale School of Public Health has published ...
Peptides as tags in fluorescence microscopy
Credit: (Picture: Franziska Neubert & Soeren Doose) Fluorescence microscopy visualizes the molecular elements of cells. Proteins of nerve cells, for ...
Microbubbles and ultrasound open the blood-brain barrier to administer drugs
Credit: UEIL, C. Sierra et al. The impassable blood-brain barrier prevents microorganisms from entering our brain, however it also blocks ...
Scientists find a molecule to fight chemoresistant cancer
Credit: MIPT's Press Office A team of scientists from N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy ...
Prescribing of baclofen for alcohol dependence ‘should be reconsidered’
The drug baclofen has received high visibility as a possible breakthrough treatment for alcohol dependence*. Now a new randomised controlled ...
Genomics technique could accelerate detection of foodborne bacterial outbreaks
Credit: Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention A new testing methodology based on metagenomics could accelerate the diagnosis of ...
Big data analytics — nostradamus of the 21st century
With much of the debate as to whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton would win the election taking place online, ...
Publishing platform ARPHA partners with Altmetric to track online attention to research
Credit: ZooKeys With a research output mentioned online every 1.8 seconds, it only makes sense for the science community to ...
NTU and Stratasys 3iD print operational ULTEM drone with embedded electronics
Loading video... Credit: NTU Singapore Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have 3D printed a ready-to-fly drone with ...
Towards therapeutic applications of mRNA: New insights into translation and decapping
Credit: Source: Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw Gene therapy gives hope to millions of patients. Researchers from the University ...
