Poor mothers face greater scrutiny over their children’s weight
Low-income mothers who use food assistance programs face a high level of surveillance over their children's health and weight, new UBC research suggests. The study...
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How thalidomide is effective against cerebral infarction
Credit: Waseda University Notoriously remembered as a major pharmaceutical scandal approximately 60 years ago, thalidomide caused severe birth defects since many pregnant women took the...
Enhanced weathering of rocks can help to suck CO2 out of the air — a little
Weathering of huge amounts of tiny rocks could be a means to reduce the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. While this is normally a slow...
Glaciers provide clues to combat desertification
Credit: © KAUST Researchers at KAUST, with colleagues in Italy and Greece, analyzed the bacterial content of the soil forming behind the receding Midtre Lovénbreen...
Fish team up for more food
Credit: Hirokazu Tanaka Cooperative behaviour to acquire food resources has been observed in hunting carnivores and web-building social spiders. Now researchers have found comparable behaviours...
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...
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...
