Baby’s tears and mom’s libido
Credit: Image by Kazushige Touhara CC-BY-SA. A substance in young mice's tears makes female mice more likely to reject male sexual advances. This research is...
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Genetic profiling may inform breast cancer risk in young childhood cancer survivors
Bottom Line: A combined evaluation of common variants with small effects and rare predisposing mutations among young female childhood cancer survivors may further stratify this...
Small risks may have big impact on breast cancer odds of childhood cancer survivors
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Oct. 26, 2018) St. Jude Children's Research Hospital researchers have evidence that common genetic variations can...
When it comes to respiratory effects of wood smoke, sex matters
CHAPEL HILL, NC - Exposure to wood smoke can have different effects on the respiratory immune systems of men and women - effects that may...
Biologists gain new insights into surface, acoustic behaviors of endangered right whales
Credit: Susan Parks, Syracuse University In response to the dwindling number of North Atlantic right whales, researchers in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S)...
Kent State biologist wins grant to study neurological roots of chronic stress and fear
Credit: Kent State University Kent State Biologist Wins Grant to Study Neurological Roots of Chronic Stress and Fear People who suffer trauma will, with few...
IUPUI biologists use ‘mini retinas’ to better understand connection between eye and brain
Credit: Department of Biology, School of Science at IUPUI INDIANAPOLIS -- IUPUI biologists are growing 'mini retinas' in the lab from stem cells to mimic...
Rice U. scientists uncover relationship between tremors, water at the Cascadia margin
Credit: Jonathan Delph/Rice University The earthquakes are so small and deep that someone standing in Seattle would never feel them. In fact, until the early...
Mapping the chromatin landscape of human cancer
By mapping the largely uncharted chromatin landscape of primary human cancers, researchers have revealed new insights into the regulation of different cancer-related genes. Their study...
Researchers observe novel bat behavior in Panama
Credit: Thomas Hiller Baby birds learn to fly. Baby mammals switch from milk to solid food. Baby bats, as winged mammals, do both at the...
CCNY finds K-core as a predictor of structural collapse in mutualistic ecosystems
A network metric called the K-core could predict structural collapse in mutualistic ecosystems, according to research by physicists at The City College of New York....
Belgian researchers discover a novel method to block immunosuppression in cancer
Belgian research groups from the UCLouvain and WELBIO, VIB and Ghent University, and the biotechnology company argenx elucidated the three-dimensional structure of an assembly of...
CCNY study breaks Förster resonant energy transfer (FRET) distance limit
(City College of New York) Using engineered nanocomposite structures called metamaterials, a City College of New York-led research team reports the ability to measure a...
Science Agora 2018
JST (President: Michinari Hamaguchi) will be holding Science Agora 2018 in the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) and the Telecom Center Building...
Biomarkers facilitate early detection of glaucoma
The team headed by Dr. Jacqueline Reinhard and Prof. Dr. Andreas Faissner from the Department of Cell Morphology and Molecular Neurobiology in Bochum, together with...
