Melting ice sheet could expose frozen Cold War-era hazardous waste
TORONTO, Aug. 4, 2016 – Climate change is threatening to expose hazardous waste at an abandoned camp thought to be buried forever in the Greenland...
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Altering Huntington’s patients’ skin cells into brain…
Credit: Matheus Victor Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have transformed skin cells from patients with Huntington's disease into the type...
Is laughter the greatest medicine for cancer patients?
Credit: Lancaster University Analysis led by Lancaster University researchers suggests that spontaneous humour is used and appreciated by people with cancer and can be a...
Omega-3 intake reduces cardiac death risk according to comprehensive…
Credit: Maki et al Results from a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Lipidology showed that in 14 randomized, controlled trials (RCTs) of...
Tracking humanity: The new key to forecasting global change
Credit: Image courtesy of Sander van der Leeuw and Anthropocene Phoenix, AZ — Humankind may still prove to be the planet's best friend or its...
Neurons form synapse clusters
Credit: MPI of Neurobiology / Scheuss The cerebral cortex resembles a vast switchboard. Countless lines carrying information about the environment, for example from the sensory...
Birds of a feather
Credit: Eddy Perez, LSU Biologists have always been fascinated by the diversity and changeability of life on Earth and have attempted to answer a fundamental...
How dolphins inspired a potentially life-saving method for treating…
Credit: Douglas Levere, University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. — A physiological process used commonly by mammals like seals and dolphins inspired the potentially life-saving method...
FDA clears heart disease trial at Boston Children’s Hospital…
BOSTON, NEW YORK, and MELBOURNE, Australia, April 03, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Boston Children's Hospital, the pediatric teaching hospital of Harvard University, and Mesoblast Limited...
Artificial ‘skin’ gives robotic hand a sense of touch
Credit: University of Houston A team of researchers from the University of Houston has reported a breakthrough in stretchable electronics that can serve as an...
Preclinical trials of radiopharmaceutical for cancer diagnosis
Credit: RIA Novosti (Russian news agency) A radiopharmaceutical for advanced identification of cancer, labeled with the technetium-99 isotope, is ready for the preclinical-phase trial. Scientists...
Highly prevalent gene variants in minority populations cause kidney disease
Credit: Katalin Susztak, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA – African Americans have a heightened risk of developing chronic and end-stage kidney disease....
Testing stem cells as possible treatment for heart failure
Credit: Sarah Pack Stem cells are being tested at the Medical University of South Carolina as a possible treatment for heart failure with a preserved...
Elongation by contraction
Credit: Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore Scientists from the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a new mechanism...
In bee decline, fungicides emerge as improbable villain
When a Cornell-led team of scientists analyzed two dozen environmental factors to understand bumblebee population declines and range contractions, they expected to find stressors like...
