Could therapy animal visitation pose health risks at patient facilities?
Credit: Dominick Reuter for Tufts University (June 19, 2017)–A survey of United States hospitals, eldercare facilities and therapy animal organizations ...
NSF issues new EPSCoR awards, investing in science and engineering across nation
Credit: Walter Dodds, Kansas State University. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded five jurisdictions nearly $20 million each through ...
Research paves the way for treatment strategies of multidrug-resistant chronic infections
Credit: Christian Als/ The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability at the Technical University of Denmark Antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas infections in ...
Discharge strategies to prevent asthma readmissions
Credit: Children's National Health System Readmission rates at three months for kids hospitalized for acute asthma dropped when families received ...
BIDMC’s Pier Paolo Pandolfi, MD, PhD, named AAAS 2017 fellow
Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON – Pier Paolo Pandolfi, MD, PhD, Director of the Cancer Center and Cancer ...
Altered brain communication could be predictive marker of dementia in…
New Rochelle, NY, March 30, 2016–Dementia will develop in about 80% of patients with Parkinson's disease, and a new study ...
Rockefeller University biologist Michael W. Young honored with Nobel Prize
Credit: Mario Morgado/The Rockefeller University Rockefeller University biologist Michael W. Young, who discovered the molecular mechanism of circadian rhythm, which ...
Grant helps project realize ‘ultra-productive’ biofuel crops, attract…
Imagine–instead of acres of oil wells on barren land–endless fields of towering green sugarcane, with each stalk producing renewable and ...
Scientists work to stop fat cells from becoming large, dysfunctional on a high-fat diet
AUGUSTA, Ga. (July 13, 2016) – A high-fat diet makes your fat cells larger, inflamed and dysfunctional, putting you at ...
New butterfly species discovered in Israel for the first time in 109…
Credit: Dr Vladimir Lukhtanov Vladimir Lukhtanov, entomologist and evolutionary biologist at the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, made a ...
In Galapagos Islands, doctoral student researches the role of soil…
Credit: University of Kansas | KU News Service LAWRENCE — A doctoral student of ecology and evolutionary biology at the ...
Measuring impact of Kenya’s ivory burning ‘urgent’ say UQ scientists
Credit: Dr. Duan Biggs Gathering evidence on the impact of Kenya's record-breaking ivory burn on elephant conservation should be an ...
‘Princess pheromone’ tells ants which larvae are destined…
Credit: Clint Penick For Indian jumping ants (Harpegnathos saltator), becoming royalty is all about timing. If a larva gives signs ...
Benchmark database of lifespan-extending drugs announced
Credit: University of Liverpool & Biogerontology Research Foundation Scientists from the Biogerontology Research Foundation (BGRF) and University of Liverpool have ...
Biological consequences of climate change on epidemics may be…
Credit: IOZ Conventional thinking holds that current climate warming will increase the prevalence and transmission of disease. However, a recent ...
Research finds common household chemicals lead to birth defects in…
Credit: Virginia Tech A new study at the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM) and the Virginia-Maryland College of ...
A fat-regulating enzyme could hold the key to obesity, diabetes,…
Credit: Gil-Soo Han/Rutgers University-New Brunswick It had already been known that the enzyme known as phosphatidic acid phosphatase plays a ...
PolyU develops accurate contactless 3-D fingerprint identification system
Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The research team of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed a system ...
DOE funds Center for Bioenergy Innovation at ORNL to accelerate biofuels, bioproducts…
Credit: ORNL OAK RIDGE, Tenn., July 17, 2017 — The Department of Energy has announced funding for new research centers ...
Pressures from grazers hastens ecosystem collapse from drought
Credit: Xiaojun Wang DURHAM, N.C. — Extreme droughts, intensified by a warming climate, are increasingly causing ecosystem collapse in many ...
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