Antidepressants can reduce the empathic empathy
Antidepressant treatment, not only depression per se, can lead to reductions in behavioral and neural responses to pain empathy Depression is a disorder that often...
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Cell division at high speed
Credit: Image: AG Gaubatz / University of Wuerzburg In malignant tumours, the cells usually proliferate quickly and uncontrollably. A research team from the Biocenter of...
Study: Marijuana use increases, shifts away from illegal market
A new article published by researchers from University of Puget Sound and University of Washington reports that, based on analysis of public wastewater samples in...
Calcium phosphate to help advance bone tissue regeneration
Fadis Murzakhanov, graduate student of the Institute of Physics, elaborates on his research Mr. Murzakhanov's master thesis is dedicated to magnetic resonance-assisted observations of hydroxyapatite...
Gut microbes associated with temperament traits in children
Scientists in the FinnBrain research project of the University of Turku, Finland, discovered that the gut microbes of a 2.5-month-old infant are associated with the...
New study suggests automation will not wipe out truck-driving jobs
While stories in the media present automation as having the potential to eliminate large swaths of jobs in the near future, a new study by...
Adequate protein intake associates with lower risk of frailty
Adequate intake of protein is associated with a reduced risk of frailty and prefrailty in older women, according to a new study from the University...
New sustainable technologies for wood-to-textile value chain enables increased production of man-made cellulose fibres in Europe
GRETE, the Green chemicals and technologies for the wood-to-textile value chain project, has been granted EUR 2.6 million by the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI...
Henry Ford Cancer Institute treats its first patient with innovative ‘living drug’ therapy
Credit: Henry Ford Health System DETROIT - Henry Ford Cancer Institute has treated its first patient with CAR T-cell therapy, an approach that uses engineered...
Study shows experimental drug can encourage bone growth in children with dwarfism
Credit: Getty Images Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Australia and seven other medical institutions report that an experimental drug...
Hydrogenation of white phosphorus leads way to safer chemical technology
Kazan University's Industrial Catalysis Lab published results in Pure and Applied Chemistry White phosphorus is well-known for being a highly toxic compound with suffocating scent....
IDIBELL researchers relate the amplification of a chromosomal region with resistance to to a chemotherapeutic drug in breast cancer
Scientists propose a new way to face this resistance and a first biomarker to predict if it could appear or notCredit: Eva González Suárez Researchers...
ESC Congress together with the World Congress of Cardiology: Press Programme announced
August 31 to September 4, 2019 in Paris, France Sophia Antipolis, 18 June 2019 The press programme for ESC Congress 2019 together with the World...
Elsevier launches Current Research journals
New titles will meet growing demand for gold open access, and build on the Current Opinion legacy of editorial excellence, high-impact and global reachCredit: Elsevier...
New methods from material sciences in physics find their way into cancer research
Credit: Murillo Longo Martins Cancer research: A new study on the behavior of water in cancer cells shows how methods usually limited to physics can...