Plant’s POEM: ‘No need to fertilize, for increase in seed size’
Credit: ITbM, Nagoya University Plant biologists at ITbM, Nagoya University, have made a key discovery that the contents in pollen tubes alone can increase the...
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Neuron types in brain are defined by gene activity shaping their…
Credit: Huang Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY – In a major step forward in research, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) today publish...
Casualty care guidelines developed by the military are directly…
Credit: Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Philadelphia, PA, June 15, 2017 – After nearly 14 years of continuous combat operations, there have been many major advances...
Ben-Gurion U. researcher reveals that self-criticism can be lethal in new book
IMAGE: The book, "Erosion: The Psychopathology of Self-Criticism, " (Oxford University Press 2015), summarizes two decades of scholarship — empirical and theoretical research and clinical...
Report describes first known case of Zika in US resident returning…
Report describes first known case of Zika in U.S. resident returning from Costa Rica Free content: http://www.annals.org/article.aspx?doi=10.7326/L16-0075 A report published in Annals of Internal M..
CD4 T cells, xenobiotic transporters, and metabolites in inflammatory…
Credit: Osaka University Osaka – Our immune system protects our bodies from numerous pathogenic microbes and toxins in the environment. The system comprises innate (non-specific)...
Found in translation
Credit: Morteza Dehghani, et al. New brain research by USC scientists shows that reading stories is a universal experience that may result in people feeling...
Public registry aims to connect Flint residents to needed care
Credit: Kurt Stepnitz, Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. – Flint residents will soon be able to participate in a voluntary registry that will help...
When neurons are ‘born’ impacts olfactory behavior in mice
Credit: Troy Ghashghaei New research from North Carolina State University shows that neurons generated at different life stages in mice can impact aspects of their...
KAIST team identifies the novel molecular signal for triggering septic…
Credit: KAIST Professor Seyun Kim's team from KAIST reported the mechanism by which cellular signaling transduction network is exquisitely controlled in mediating innate immune response...
LSUhealthNO’s Gilpin only one in LA chosen for high us…
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA – Nicholas W. Gilpin, PhD, Associate Professor of Physiology and Associate Director of the Alcohol and Drug...
Low-carb diet alleviates inherited form of intellectual disability in…
Credit: Joel S. Benjamin/Johns Hopkins Medicine Experimenting on mice with a genetic change similar to that found in people with a rare inherited disease called...
CRI Researchers Link Absence of Protein to Liver Tissue Regeneration
“This research gives us ideas about new ways to treat liver damage or chronic liver disease,” said senior author Dr. Hao Zhu, an Assistant Professor...
CNIC scientists discover how a decades-old drug reduces the size of a heart attack
Credit: CNIC Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) have discovered a new mechanism of action of metoprolol, a drug that...
Re-interventions are common in long-term survivors of childhood heart…
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Among patients who undergo childhood heart surgery for the severe birth defect single-ventricle disease, two-thirds of survivors require a surgical...
