Gaining weight between pregnancies boosts diabetes risk
Credit: Anne Sidsel Herdlevar, University of Bergen. The study performed at the University of Bergen shows that increasing Body Mass ...
UCLA receives $5 million grant for sharing research on AIDS and substance abuse
Credit: Enrique Rivero/UCLA The National Institute on Drug Abuse has awarded $5 million to researchers at UCLA to develop a ...
Genetic study uncovers fungal sex secrets, which shed light on candidiasis
Credit: Ewa Ksiezopolska & Toni Gabaldon, CRG. Working together with researchers in the Université Paris-Sud in France and University Medical ...
Penn-led research elucidates genetics behind Salmonella’s host…
It's called bird flu for a reason. Particular characteristics about the influenza virus known as H5N1 allow it to primarily ...
Steering an enzyme’s ‘scissors’ shows potential for…
Credit: UBC Faculty of Medicine The old real estate adage about "location, location, location" might also apply to the biochemical ...
Your brain on exercise
Credit: Courtesy Photo It's universally accepted that the benefits of exercise go well beyond fitness, from reducing the risk of ...
$11.5 million program project aims to combat malaria drug resistance
Credit: courtesy of Texas Biomed San Antonio, Texas (Sept. 20, 2017) – Texas Biomedical Research Institute researchers, Dr. Tim Anderson ...
Cebit 2017: Computational biologists predict antibiotic resistances…
Credit: Curetis The researchers will be presenting their rapid test procedures, and their outlook for the future, at Stand E28 ...
ASTRO issues guideline for use of stereotactic radiation in…
Credit: American Society for Radiation Oncology/Adam Donohue ARLINGTON, Va., June 12, 2017 — The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) ...
IU biologists report method to calculate lifetime energy requirements of cells, genes
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — In a recently published paper, Indiana University biologists have calculated the lifetime energy requirements of multiple types ...
In defense of pathogenic proteins
IMAGE: Scientists found in yeast cells protein aggregates (light green spots). As cells age and divide, these aggregates become more ...
Zika virus challenges for neuropsychiatry recently published by Dove…
A new study, published in the Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment journal, examines this by critically reviewing the literature. The Zika ...
Researchers develop technology enabling standard cameras to produce hyperspectral images
Credit: Ben-Gurion U. BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL…September 13, 2017 – Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed miniaturized hyperspectral ...
Dulling cancer therapy’s double-edged sword
Credit: Journal of Experimental Medicine/Sulciner et al. Researchers have discovered that killing cancer cells can actually have the unintended effect ...
Protein transport channel offers new target for thwarting pathogen
Luiz Bermudez, a professor in OSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine Credit: Karl Maasdam CORVALLIS, Ore. – A bacterium that attacks ...
Mosquito sex protein could provide key to controlling disease
Credit: Photo by Alex Wild If you thought the sex lives of humans were complicated, consider the case of the ...
Study suggests handwashing compliance in child care facilities is insufficient
Credit: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology Arlington, VA, November 29, 2016 – Child care personnel properly clean ...
Ancient skulls shed light on migration in the Roman empire
Credit: NC State University Skeletal evidence shows that, hundreds of years after the Roman Republic conquered most of the Mediterranean ...
Certain heart fat associated with higher risk of heart disease in…
Credit: Rick Sciullo/UPMC PITTSBURGH, Jan. 30, 2017 – A higher volume of a certain type of fat that surrounds the ...
NRL scientists find high prevalence of antibiotic resistance in Kenya
Credit: U.S. Naval Research Laboratory/Lt. Cmdr. Michael Prouty-NAMRU-2 (Released) WASHINGTON – Antibiotic resistance is one of the most significant global ...
