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Credit: Georgia Tech / Christopher Moore When dehydration strikes, part of the brain can swell, neural signaling can intensify, and doing monotonous tasks can get...

Endocrine Society congratulates Early Investigators Award winners

WASHINGTON-- The Endocrine Society has selected five new recipients for its Early Investigators Awards. The Early Investigators Awards were established to recognize the achievements of...

Living close to urban green spaces is associated with a decreased risk of breast cancer

An increasing number of studies are reporting health benefits of contact with urban green spaces. A new study from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health...

Sanford Burnham Prebys compound advances into Phase 1 trial for pancreatic cancer

Credit: John Gestaldo LA JOLLA , CALIF. - August 21, 2018 - A compound discovered at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) has advanced...

Newer HIV therapies have led to gains in viral suppression rates over past 2 decades

1. Newer HIV therapies have led to dramatic gains in viral suppression rates over the past 2 decades Younger persons and blacks saw lower rates...

What’s behind the retreating kelps and expanding corals?

Credit: Kumagai N.H., et al., PNAS, August 20, 2018 Climate change and other external forces are causing rapid marine community shifts in Japan's coastal ecosystems....

Near 2 million acres on fire in the United States

Credit: NOAA The West Coast of the United States is shrouded in smoke from the 110 large fires (this does not include smaller fires within...

Getting policy right: why fisheries management is plagued by the panacea mindset

Fisheries management has often been characterized by regulatory policies that result in panaceas--broad based policy solutions that are expected to address several problems, which result...

Stool proteins to predict inflammatory bowel disease

Credit: University of Houston University of Houston researcher Chandra Mohan is set to make a breakthrough in predicting and monitoring inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). With...

Colorado study shows how to make (and destroy) a metastatic cancer cell

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Many cancers become especially dangerous only when they metastasize from their site of origin to faraway tissues such as...

Childhood brain tumor treatment impairs new memory formation

Credit: Melanie Sekeres Young people who received radiation therapy for the most common pediatric brain tumor struggle to create new memories about specific events, according...

Children with brain tumors who undergo radiation less likely to recall recent events

Credit: credit to Melanie Sekeres, Ph.D. Children with certain types of brain tumors who undergo radiation treatment are less likely to recall the specifics of...

Biosensor allows real-time oxygen monitoring for ‘organs-on-a-chip’

Credit: Michael Daniele A new biosensor allows researchers to track oxygen levels in real time in "organ-on-a-chip" systems, making it possible to ensure that such...

Xiaoji Xu named recipient of prestigious Beckman Young Investigator Award

Credit: Douglas Benedict/Academic Image Xiaoji Xu, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Lehigh University, has been named a Beckman Young Investigator, earning...

Poor sleep + type 2 diabetes = Slower wound healing