Prenatal choline intake increases grey and white matter in piglets
Credit: Stephanie Henry, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Choline intake during pregnancy can influence infant metabolism and brain development, according to a series of...
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Symposium explores scope, solutions to opioid epidemic
Legislators, law enforcement officials, political leaders and medical experts will address the opioid epidemic during a wide-ranging symposium set for April 18. Sponsored by the...
Rocky habitats need to be protected for endangered amphibians to survive
Credit: Lewis Davies/University of Plymouth Rare amphibians living on rocky plateaux in western India are in desperate need of greater protection as their habitats are...
How infighting turns toxic for chimpanzees
Credit: Photo by Geza Teleki. DURHAM, N.C. -- Power. Ambition. Jealousy. According to a new study, the same things that fuel deadly clashes in humans...
Research reveals a new direction for halting the citrus greening epidemic
Credit: Marina Mann ITHACA, NY - New clues to how the bacteria associated with citrus greening infect the only insect that carries them could lead...
Are fire ants worse this spring because of Hurricane Harvey?
Credit: Brandon Martin/Rice University HOUSTON -- (March 26, 2018) -- Rice University ecologists are checking to see if Hurricane Harvey's unprecedented floods gave a competitive...
Animal migrations
Forty million miles of major roads crisscross the Earth's continents -- enough to circle the planet 1,600 times. For humans, these thoroughfares are a boon,...
Rapid adaptation
This story begins in the kelp forest and ends with a very important climate change message: All is not lost -- at least not for...
Combination breast cancer therapy targets tumor cells and the blood vessels that feed them
Each day, normal human cell tissues express a protein known as p53 that wages war against potential malignancies. However, between 30 and 40 percent of...
New targeted therapy schedule could keep melanoma at bay
(PHILADELPHIA) -- Skin melanoma, a particularly insidious cancer, accounts for the vast majority skin cancer deaths and is one of the most common cancers in...
Frequent, public drug users may be good candidates for overdose-treatment training
In response to America's opioid crisis, public health departments and community organizations across the country have started to train opioid users to reverse overdoses in...
Extending traceable measurements inside the human body
Credit: NIST The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is now providing a new measurement service that can improve the quality of magnetic resonance...
Portable device detects severe stroke in seconds with 92 percent accuracy
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina A new device worn like a visor can detect emergent large-vessel occlusion in patients with suspected stroke with 92...
Infection prevention and control programs are essential to antibiotic stewardship efforts
Arlington, Va., March 26, 2018 -- Infection prevention and control (IPC) and antibiotic stewardship (AS) programs are inextricably linked, according to a joint position paper...
Carbohydrate biomarker improves screening for breast cancer patients
Credit: Bernie Poitras, Canadian Glycomics Network (GlycoNet) People diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer have a five-year survival rate of more than 93 per cent. However,...
