New CMU and Pitt research finds the brain is less flexible than we thought when learning
PITTSBURGH - Nobody really knows how the activity in your brain reorganizes as you learn new tasks, but new research from Carnegie Mellon University and...
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The Alps are home to more than 3,000 lichens
Credit: Dr Peter O. Bilovitz Historically, the Alps have always played an emblematic role, being one of the largest continuous natural areas in Europe. With...
A revolutionary technique allows to image all the cells in a region of the brain
Credit: © Jan Tønnesen & Valentin Nägerl. Microscopy is a basic tool in research into the biology of any organism given that the elements studied,...
Humans behind majority of raptor deaths in Ontario, study finds
Credit: Courtesy University of Guelph Human encroachment is the leading cause of death among Ontario's at-risk birds of prey, according to a first-ever University of...
Four kinds of algal toxins found in San Francisco Bay shellfish
Credit: John Negrey Researchers monitoring San Francisco Bay for algal toxins have found a surprising array of different toxins in the water and in mussels...
Managing blood pressure in barbershops yields substantial improvements
ORLANDO (March 12, 2018) -- African-American men who received medical intervention aimed at controlling their high blood pressure while at the barber saw a marked...
Low-dose ‘triple pill’ lowers blood pressure more than usual care
ORLANDO (March 12, 2018) -- A pill combining low doses of three blood pressure-lowering medications significantly increased the number of patients reaching blood pressure targets...
Preclinical characterization of therapeutic antibodies
Credit: Bhairavi Tolani, email: [email protected] David M. Jablons, email: [email protected] Even though the Shh pathway is mainly quiescent in adults, the safety of Shh-targeting with...
Precision oncology in advanced cancer patients improves overall survival
Credit: Lincoln D. Nadauld, email: [email protected] The use of advanced molecular diagnostic technologies, such as Next-Generation Sequencing based gene panel testing, to select targeted t..
Oncotarget To be indexed in highly esteemed meta database
Oncotarget announced that its peer-reviewed research publications will be indexed in Meta, a world-renowned database of scientific literature, alongside other Impact Journal publications. Meta was...
Study yields more than a million new cyclic compounds, some with pharmaceutical potential
Credit: Photo by Don Hamerman CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers say they can now produce a vast library of unique cyclic compounds, some with the capacity...
Blood thinner significantly reduces the risk of death after non-cardiac surgery
Hamilton, ON - Researchers in Hamilton have discovered that a blood-thinning drug, dabigatran, significantly reduces the risk of death, heart attack, stroke, and other heart...
Study finds flatfoot reconstruction effective for older patients
When someone develops adult-acquired flatfoot deformity (AAFD), they are offered either a reconstruction or foot fusion depending on the severity of the flatfoot and their...
Study tackles neuroscience claims to have disproved ‘free will’
For several decades, some researchers have argued that neuroscience studies prove human actions are driven by external stimuli -- that the brain is reactive and...
GW researcher awarded $2.4 million to study the role of the brain in obesity-induced hypertension
WASHINGTON (March 12, 2018) -- Obesity is a problem that affects about 30 percent of the population in the United States. Many obese individuals are...
