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Credit: Qi Zhang, Ph.D. and Claire E. DelBove Worldwide, 50 million people are living with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. According to the Alzheimer's Association,...

Good mousekeeping: En suite bathroom makes for happier mice

Credit: UBC Media Relations Mice have a strong preference to nest away from their own waste and should be housed in a system of cages...

Dengue mosquito is Queensland’s biggest threat for spreading Zika virus

Credit: QIMR Berghofer Researchers at QUT and QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute have found that the dengue fever mosquito common to north and central Queensland...

Scientists define the role for a rare, influential set of bone marrow cells

Researchers have defined the roles of various cells in the bone marrow that are thought to control the fate of the nearly half million blood...

UTA engineering students build treadmill that helps athletes in wheelchairs work out

Treadmill for wheelchairsCredit: UT Arlington The eight-time national champion UTA Movin' Mavs might be getting even better soon, thanks to some ingenuity among mechanical engineering...

Researchers find high-risk genes for schizophrenia

Using a unique computational "framework" they developed, a team of scientist cyber-sleuths in the Vanderbilt University Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and the Vanderbilt...

How slippery surfaces allow sticky pastes and gels to slide

Engineered surface treatment developed at MIT can reduce waste and improve efficiency in many processesCredit: Image courtesy of the researchers An MIT research team that...

Study shows zoos and aquariums increase species knowledge index 800 percent

Previously untapped information sheds light on extinction timelines for mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibiansCredit: Species360 Conservation Science Alliance Despite volumes of data currently available on...

With abdominal etching, plastic surgeons help patients get ‘six-pack abs’

April 22, 2019 - Even with a good diet and workout routine, some men and women have trouble getting the toned abdominal appearance they want....

The kids are alright

Family quarrels in seeds reveal the ways parents and offspring sometimes evolve in conflicting directions It's spring, finally -- and in the tree branches a...

$17 million grant will explore immune cells in inaccessible tissues of the human body

Tissue-resident B cells likely have important differences that affect autoimmunity and transplant rejectionCredit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers will receive...

Working out makes hydrogels perform more like muscle

Mechanical 'training' produces strong, fatigue-resistant, yet soft hydrogels with possible uses in medicineCredit: Image: Ji Liu, Shaoting Lin, and Xinyue Liu Human skeletal muscles have...

No increase in complications with ‘tummy tuck’ in obese patients

April 22, 2019 - "Tummy tuck" surgery (abdominoplasty) can be safely performed in obese patients, with no increase in complications compared to non-obese patients, reports...

Sugar entering the brain during septic shock causes memory loss

Research gives clear target for drug development and further study into memory lossCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- The loss of memory and cognitive...

Protecting damaged hearts with microRNAs