Tracking the viral parasites of giant viruses over time
Credit: Image courtesy of Trina McMahon In freshwater lakes, microbes regulate the flow of carbon and determine if the bodies of water serve as carbon...
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Sandia Labs team continues to quantify fatigue using wearables
Credit: Michael Padilla LIVERMORE, Calif. – Can fatigue be predicted? Can life-threatening fatigue be differentiated from recoverable fatigue? A team of researchers led by Sandia...
New method improves stability, extends shelf life of protein drugs
Credit: University of Notre Dame Gaining access to important biopharmaceuticals needed to treat illnesses and autoimmune diseases is one of the biggest obstacles developing countries...
An implant to prevent Alzheimer’s
In a cutting-edge treatment for Alzheimer's disease, EPFL scientists have developed an implantable capsule that can turn the patient's immune system against the disease. One...
In human clinical trial, UAB to test diet’s effect on ovarian…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – New research conducted at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has shown that a particular type of diet could help women with...
These 5 tests better predict heart disease risk
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS – March 30, 2017 – Five simple medical tests together provide a broader and more accurate assessment of heart-disease risk than...
Can breastfeeding reduce a woman’s risk of metabolic syndrome?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Feb. 16, 2017 — A new study shows that women who spend a longer time breastfeeding...
UMass Amherst Biogeographer leads study on wildfire risk related to invasive grasses
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Invasive plant expert Bethany Bradley at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a three-year, $389,975 grant from the...
Researchers fold a protein within a protein
Credit: Dr Chester L. Drum A team from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine) has invented a fundamentally new way of...
Finding a lethal parasite’s vulnerabilities
Credit: James Lok An estimated 100 million people around the world are infected with Strongyloides stercoralis, a parasitic nematode, yet it's likely that many don't...
Children’s sleep quality is related to mothers’ insomnia symptoms
Children more often sleep poorly if their mothers suffer from insomnia symptoms. This report researchers from the University of Basel and the University of Warwick...
First surface-based estimation of the aerosol indirect effect over…
Credit: Jianjun Liu Aerosol indirect effect (AIE) can significantly affect climate change and is one of the largest uncertainties in climate change studies. To date,...
Trapped in a nuclear weapon bunker wood ants survive for years in Poland
Having built their nest over the vertical ventilation pipe of an old nuclear weapon bunker in Poland, every year a large number of wood ants...
Scleroderma study: Hope for a longer life for patients with rare…
Credit: UVA Health System An unusual autoimmune disease that causes skin and lung damage can be treated effectively by stem cell transplant, a new study...
Personalized cell therapy combination achieves complete remission in CLL patients
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – Combining the kinase inhibitor ibrutinib with an investigational personalized cellular therapy known as CTL119 can lead to complete remission in...
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