Biomarker for schizophrenia can be detected in human hair
Credit: RIKEN Working with model mice, post-mortem human brains, and people with schizophrenia, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan have discovered...
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Cutting-edge robot makes short work of gardening chores
Credit: Radim Tylecek / University of Edinburgh A gardening robot has been developed that can self-navigate and automatically prune roses and trim bushes. The green-fingered...
The Navy and Navajo Nation: Foundations for a research relationship
Credit: (U.S. Navy photo by Warren Duffie Jr.) ARLINGTON, Va.--The Department of the Navy's Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) program recently held its...
Lupus study illustrates the importance of diversity in genetic research
Credit: HudsonAlpha Scientists at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology have pinpointed epigenetic differences in the way lupus affects black women compared to other lupus patients,...
Satellite analysis reveals and asymmetric Typhoon Bualoi
Credit: NASA/NOAA/UWM-CIMSS, William Straka III NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite and NASA's Aqua satellite both passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and both used infrared light...
Bright SPARC
Medical University of South Carolina team tapped to develop the prototype of a cloud-based tool to measure impact of clinical and translational research nationwideCredit: Sarah...
Influenza human challenge study begins at NIAID-sponsored clinical trial units
Credit: NIH A clinical trial in which healthy adults will be deliberately infected with influenza virus under carefully controlled conditions is recruiting volunteers at four...
What use do teenagers make of YouTube?
An article published in the journal Information, Communication & Society by Fernanda Pires, Carlos A. Scolari and Maria-José Masanet,examines teenagers' use of YouTube and the...
A weapon to make a superbug to become more deadly
Professor Chen and his team carried out experiments to compare the survival rates of the mice infected with different bacterial strains and different dosages. Testing...
NASA-NOAA satellite catches development of gulf Tropical Depression 17
Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Gulf of Mexico and revealed that a low pressure area was developing into a depression. On...
Insect evolution: Insect evolution
Credit: Picture: V. Baranov Scientists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have shown that the incidence of midge and fly larvae in amber is far higher...
Pathogens from the sea
A marine pathogenic bacterium forms specialized cells for disseminationCredit: MPI f. terrestrial Microbiology/ Ringaard Vibrio parahaemolyticus can be found in the tidal zones in estuarine...
NASA observes Tropical Storm Kyarr form near southwest India coast
Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Storm Kyarr formed near the southwestern coast of India, and NASA's Aqua satellite provided forecasters with a visible image of the storm...
Decision support tool reduces unneeded referrals of low-risk patients with chest pain
Credit: Children's National Hospital NEW ORLEANS-Few events strike more fear in parents than hearing their child's heart "hurts." When primary care pediatricians - who are...
Fire-spawned forest fungi hide out in other organisms, study finds
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- When a wildfire obliterates a forest, the first life to rise from the ashes is usually...