Study shows arctic warming contributes to drought
When the Arctic warmed after the ice age 10,000 years ago, it created perfect conditions for drought. According to new research led by a University...
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Offspring of older mothers are more responsive to aging interventions, study finds
Credit: Michael Shribak and Kristin Gribble WOODS HOLE, Mass. - Advanced maternal age at the time of giving birth is known to decrease how long...
Study confirms and ranks nursery value of coastal habitats
Findings will help resource managers with difficult conservation decisionsCredit: © D. Malmquist/VIMS. A comprehensive analysis of more than 11,000 previous coastal-habitat measurements suggests that mangroves...
U of T Mississauga study identifies ‘master pacemaker’ for biological clocks
Credit: Photo credit: sibya via Pixabay What makes a biological clock tick? According to a new study from U of T Mississauga, the surprising answer...
Lurie Children’s offers kids virtual escape from intensive care unit
From scuba diving to snowboarding, patients in the pediatric intensive care unit leave the hospital behind with virtual reality For the first time in a...
Engineers craft the basic building block for electrospun nanofibers
Credit: Peter Zhu/Michigan Tech Electrospinning uses electric fields to manipulate nanoscale and microscale fibers. The technique is well-developed but time-intensive and costly. A team from...
Donor muscle training before transplantation expedites rehabilitation process in patients
Researchers at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience of the Higher School of Economics have proposed to train transplanted muscles in advance with new movements so...
Rural America needs more headache specialists, WVU researcher says
Credit: WVU MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--West Virginia is short on neurologists. According to David Watson, who directs the West Virginia University Headache Center, the state has just...
RIT researchers set to help LIGO resume the hunt for ripples in space and time
Advanced LIGO's third observing run will provide scientists new data on gravitational waves The Nobel Prize-winning project that hunts for gravitational waves-- ripples in space...
Artificial intelligence can predict premature death, study finds
Computers which are capable of teaching themselves to predict premature death could greatly improve preventative healthcare in the future, suggests a new study by experts...
Southern Europeans, non-Europeans less likely to have matched stem cell donors
Alternative donor transplants are needed for these patients (WASHINGTON, March 27, 2019) -- Although the pool of registered bone marrow donors has increased in recent...
New potential therapeutic target for pancreatic cancer discovered
MD Anderson study demonstrates role of protein syndecan-1 in regulation of KRAS geneCredit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Cancer cells demand enormous amounts of molecular "food"...
Low-dose radiation therapy improves delivery of therapeutic nanoparticles to brain tumors
A new study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators finds that radiation therapy may increase the uptake of therapeutic nanoparticles by glioblastomas, raising the...
Study of female weightlifters crushes stereotype
In the first-ever study of its kind, San Francisco State University and California State University, Fullerton researchers found that elite women weightlifters have the same...
Researchers advance effort to manage parasitic roundworms
Patent-pending discoveryCredit: UNH DURHAM, N.H.--Roundworms that feed on plants cause approximately $100 billion in annual global crop damage. Now researchers at the University of New...
