Impact of climate change on Scottish rivers: Project to protect wild Atlantic salmon
River managers will be able to moderate the impact of climate change on Scotland's rivers and fisheries by using a new online mapping tool to...
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Untapped gold mine is lost from end-of-life vehicles
Credit: Empa Vast quantities of scarce metals are being lost from Europe's urban mine of vehicles, including 20 tonnes of gold each year - and...
Stab injury of zebrafish unveils regenerative processes by neural stem cells in the brain
Credit: Waseda University Waseda University researchers recently elucidated the regenerative processes by neural stem cells using a stab injury model in the optic tectum, a...
Our circadian clock sets the rhythm for our cells’ powerhouses
Credit: (Illustration: University of Basel) Countless genetically controlled clocks tick inside different parts of our bodies, such as the liver, kidneys and heart. Among other...
Chlorine bleach is the main ingredient in a toxic cocktail that destroys bacteria
Credit: RUB, Marquard The immune cells douse the bacteria with a toxic cocktail that contains, among other things, chlorine bleach. This leads to the oxidation...
Preventing exhaustion in immune cells boosts immunotherapy in mice
PITTSBURGH, March 6, 2018 - If you're an immune cell gearing up to fight cancer, you'd better eat your breakfast. The tumor microenvironment is a...
Texas A&M chemists use technology to decode language of lipid-protein interaction
Credit: Laganowsky Laboratory, Texas A&M University Technology has a massive impact on our day-to-day lives, right down to the cellular level within our own bodies....
Study advances research in pelvic organ prolapse among women
By measuring the sagging of the vaginal walls in more than a thousand volunteers for up to nine years annually, a team of Baltimore physicians...
Study suggests native UK Pine martens are helping to control invasive gray squirrels
Credit: University of Aberdeen AMHERST, Mass. - For many years, populations of a little red squirrel with cute ear tufts, a native of Great Britain,...
Without 46 million year-old bacteria, turtle ants would need more bite and less armor
Credit: Photo by Jon Sanders. You've probably heard about poop pills, the latest way for humans to get benevolent bacteria into their guts. But it...
Strict eating schedule can lower Huntington disease protein in mice
New research from the University of British Columbia suggests that following a strict eating schedule can help clear away the protein responsible for Huntington disease...
Bacteria resistant to last-resort antibiotic, missed by standard tests
Emory microbiologists have detected "heteroresistance" to colistin, a last-resort antibiotic, in already highly resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, a bacterium that causes blood, soft tissue and urinary...
Rural claim lines with sleep apnea diagnoses increased 911 percent from 2014 to 2017
Credit: FAIR Health NEW YORK, NY--March 6, 2018--From 2014 to 2017, private insurance claim lines with a diagnosis of sleep apnea--a potentially serious disorder in...
Study validates tool to assess mortality risk in older patients with orthopedic fractures
Credit: NYU Langone Health Analytic software developed by orthopedic trauma surgeons at NYU Langone Health accurately identifies which middle-aged and elderly patients face a greater...
New tool helps identify risk for post-surgical dislocations following hip replacement
Credit: NYU Langone Health A novel risk assessment tool helps identify which patients undergoing total hip replacement may be at higher risk for an implant...
