Researchers find link between food allergies and childhood anxiety
June 29, 2017 -- Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and Albert Einstein College of Medicine...
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Mitochondria-targeted antioxidant SkQ1 helps to treat diabetic wounds
Members of the Faculty of Biology and A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, a unit of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, have tested on a...
UTA study recommends that children with autism be checked for DCD
(University of Texas at Arlington) UTA researchers are recommending in a new study that children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder should be checked for developmental...
Bringing CRISPR into focus
Credit: Maofu Liao/Harvard Medical School At a glance: New study generates near-atomic resolution images of key steps in how CRISPR searches for target DNA and...
Newly identified small RNA fragments defend the genome when it’s ‘naked’
Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Our genomes are minefields, studded with potentially damaging DNA sequences over which hundreds of thousands of sentries stand guard. These...
Penn collaboration produces surprising insights into the properties of butterfly wings
Credit: Daniel Janzen A collaboration between biologists and materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania is yielding new insights into the wings of the "skipper...
Bright thinking leads to breakthrough in nuclear threat detection science
Credit: (Photo by Randy Wong) LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Taking inspiration from an unusual source, a Sandia National Laboratories team has dramatically improved the science of...
More milkweeds located throughout the landscape can help conserve monarchs
Credit: Karen Oberhauser, University of Minnesota Image provided by Fred Ormand and Joyce Pearsall. Adding milkweeds and other native flowering plants into midwestern agricultural lands...
Variation at a central metabolic gene influences male fruit fly lifespan
Credit: NC State University The overexpression of an important gene that regulates energy metabolism can cause a severe shortening of lifespan in male fruit flies...
Camera-trap research paves the way for global monitoring networks
Credit: S. Sunarto/WWF Biodiversity loss is one of the driving factors in ecosystem change, on par with climate change and human development. When one species,...
Cleveland Clinic researcher receives $3.4 million NIH grant for epilepsy surgery research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $3.4 million grant to Cleveland Clinic to develop a tool to predict individual outcomes in epilepsy surgery....
Penn gastroenterologists receive funding to continue research partnership on Barrett’s Esophagus
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - A research group in the division of Gastroenterology in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has...
Taiwan DCB, PITDC, TMU and Insilico Medicine join forces to apply AI for biomedical research
Credit: Insilico Medicine Thursday June 29, 2017, Taipei, Taiwan: The Development Center for Biotechnology (DCB), the Medical and Pharmaceutical Industrial Technology Development Center (PITDC), an..
New anesthesia dosing models may increase safety of remifentanil for obese patients and children
CHICAGO - Researchers have developed new dosing models that may provide the scientific basis for more accurate administration of remifentanil, a synthetic opioid commonly used...
Eighty-five percent of Spanish children eat too much salt
Salt is a hidden enemy in children's diets. So says the conclusion of a study by researchers from the Complutense University of Madrid, which suggests...
