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Credit: Max Planck Institute for Ornithology New Haven, Conn. - The International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space, or ICARUS, will be flying closer to...

MossRehab named top ten rehabilitation facility in nation

MossRehab, the renowned physical and cognitive rehabilitation arm of Einstein Healthcare Network, has again been named by U.S. News & World Report magazine as a...

Inching closer to a soft spot in isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis

Credit: National Institutes of Health/NIH Image Gallery Antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis is a public health threat. TB and other bacteria become resistant to antibiotics by evolving genetic...

Deaths from resident-to-resident incidents in dementia offers insights to inform policy

Credit: University of Minnesota Analyzing the incidents between residents in dementia in long-term care homes may hold the key to reducing future fatalities among this...

Magnetic gene in fish may someday help those with epilepsy, Parkinson’s

Credit: Galit Pelled and Assaf Gilad, Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. -- An aquarium fish that senses the Earth's magnetic field as it swims...

SMURF1 provides targeted approach to preventing cocaine addiction relapse

Credit: Douglas Levere, University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A class of proteins that has generated significant interest for its potential to treat diseases, has...

Immune cells in the brain have surprising influence on sexual behavior

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Researchers have found a surprising new explanation of how young brains are shaped for sexual behavior later in life. Immune cells usually...

Doctors may be able to enlist a mysterious enzyme to stop internal bleeding

Blood platelets are like the sand bags of the body. Got a cut? Platelets pile in to clog the hole and stop the bleeding. But...

Healthy fat cells uncouple obesity from diabetes

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine About 422 million people around the world, including more than 30 million Americans, have diabetes. Approximately ninety percent of them...

Societies recommend policies to retain, increase ranks of ID physician scientists

Improved compensation, expanded mentorship and training opportunities, and concrete measures to improve workforce diversity are all needed to address attrition from the ranks of physician...

Scientists pinpoint brain networks responsible for naming objects

Credit: PHOTO CREDIT: Rob Cahill, UTHealth Scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have identified the brain networks that allow...

USTC develops a family of bioinspired artificial woods by traditional resins

Credit: YU Shuhong Nature has provided us not only the fantastic materials, but also the inspiration for the design and fabrication of high-performance biomimetic engineering...

Deep in the weeds: Using eDNA sequencing to survey pondweed diversity

Ecological surveys of biodiversity provide fundamental baseline information on species occurrence and the health of an ecosystem, but can require significant labor and taxonomic expertise...

Generating DNA sequence data in the developing world

Credit: Campbell O. Webb Globally, biodiversity is concentrated around the equator, but the scientific institutions generating DNA sequence data to study that biodiversity tend to...

An ion channel differentiates newborn and mature neurons in the adult brain