Researchers create fiber optic sensors that dissolve in the body
Credit: Maria Konstantaki, Foundation of Research and Technology – Hellas WASHINGTON — For the first time, researchers have fabricated sensing elements known as fiber Bragg...
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Parasite revealed: New insights into dicyemida
Credit: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) Revealing the origin and evolutionary history of the world's manifold life forms is one way...
Male poison frogs become cannibals after taking over territories
Credit: Andrius Pasukonis In general, male poison frogs of the species Allobates femoralis are observed as very caring and attentive fathers. Eva Ringler and her...
Beijing severe haze more frequent under global warming
Credit: IAP Frequency of Beijing winter severe haze has increased over past decades, culminating in events during January 2013, December 2015 and December 2016, when...
New study suggests health benefits of swapping animal proteins for…
Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Dec. 20, 2017–Substituting one to two servings of animal proteins with plant proteins every day could lead to...
Discovery of infants’ airway microbiomes may help predict lung…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – In contrast to the general belief that the airways of an infant are sterile until after birth, University of Alabama at Birmingham...
Why are genetically identical individuals different? Ask your mum!
Credit: Lola Davey, Marcos Francisco Perez, CRG. Does the age of a mother influence the traits and characteristics of her progeny, and how? A team...
How will genomics enter day-to-day medicine?
A quiet transformation has been brewing in medicine, as large-scale DNA results become increasingly available to patients and healthcare providers. Amid a cascade of data,...
Shining light on brain tumors
Credit: N.V. Kuzmin et al, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands WASHINGTON — When operating on cancer, surgeons want to remove tumors and not healthy tissue....
NTU scientists develop patch which could improve healing and reduce scarring
Credit: NTU Singapore Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a new gel patch prototype that could speed up the healing of...
Does new cash-out option in sports betting increase risk for problem…
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 24, 2017–The increasingly popular cash-out feature in online sports betting is a game-changer, but instead...
In fruit fly and human genetics, timing is everything
Credit: McKay Lab (UNC-Chapel Hill) CHAPEL HILL, NC – Every animal starts as a clump of cells, which over time multiply and mature into many...
Biophysics explains how immune cells kill bacteria
Credit: Scientific Reports (Tokyo, August 16) A new data analysis technique, moving subtrajectory analysis, designed by researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology, defines the dynamics...
Why big brains are rare
Credit: David Kilper/Washington University As a species we're so brain-proud it doesn't occur to most of us to ask whether a big brain has disadvantages...
A quarter of problematic cannabis users have anxiety disorders, many since childhood
ematic in early adulthood have anxiety disorders in childhood and late adolescence, reports a study published in the November 2017 issue of the Journal of...
