Wildfire risk doesn’t douse housing demand
Credit: Josh Hawkins/UNLV Creative Services Out of sight, out of mind. That's the conclusion of a new UNLV study which found that real estate prices...
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Study finds sucralose produces previously unidentified metabolites
Sucralose, a widely used artificial sweetener sold under the trade name Splenda®, is metabolized in the gut, producing at least two fat-soluble compounds, according to...
Epigenetic analysis of aggressive brain tumors
Credit: Karl-Heinz Nenning (Vienna, August 27, 2018) Glioblastoma is a highly aggressive brain cancer that predominantly affects people in their 50s, 60s and 70s. Even...
Breast cancer breakthrough: Some tumors can stop their own spread
The findings, uncovered in mice and patient tumours, are published in Nature Cell Biology today. They reveal a previously unseen 'ecosystem' in advanced breast cancer,...
Predicting the response to immunotherapy using artificial intelligence
A study published in The Lancet Oncology establishes for the first time that artificial intelligence can process medical images to extract biological and clinical information....
How do fruit flies grow legs? Solving a molecular mystery
Credit: Roumen Voutev/Mann Lab/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK -- What do cancer and the growing legs of a fruit fly have in common? They can...
£30 million global cardiovascular challenge launched
(SCIAD) The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is today launching the Big Beat Challenge, a unique £30 million research funding award that will bring together world-leading...
Sensitivity to how others evaluate you emerges by 24 months
Even before toddlers can form a complete sentence, they are attuned to how others may be judging them, finds a new study by psychologists at...
Aalto University and VTT launch a major innovation ecosystem aimed at doubling the value of forest industry
On 23 August 2018, Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland signed a collaboration agreement on the CERES flagship programme and took a...
High-sugar feeding only at active times of day reduces adverse effects in rats
Credit: Hiroaki Oda Nagoya, Japan - A sedentary lifestyle combined with a diet dominated by processed foods has widely resulted in a range of conditions...
Assessment, monitoring, and mitigation of stressors on bee health
Credit: Pensoft Honey bees, bumble bees, and solitary bees pollinate crops and wildflowers and are essential for both human and planetary well-being. The new EU...
Towards untangling the ‘antennal grabbing’ phenomenon in mating cuckoo bees
Credit: Michaela Hofmann One can seldom spot a cuckoo bee, whose peculiar kleptoparasitic behaviour includes laying eggs in the nests of a certain host bee...
NUS food scientists create healthy probiotic drink from soy pulp
Credit: National University of Singapore Food scientists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have given okara - the residue from the production of soy...
Cellular pumps protect the gut from toxins
The master regulators of gut stem cells, called intestinal myofibroblasts, have pumps that protect them, and thus the gut, from the toxic effects of a...
In the race of life, the tortoise beats the hare every time
Credit: Duke University DURHAM, N.C. - Over the long-run, the race will indeed go to the slower, steadier animal. "The fable of 'The Tortoise and...
