Salk’s Reuben Shaw receives National Cancer Institute…
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA — (Aug. 1, 2017) Salk Professor Reuben Shaw has received the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Outstanding Investigator Award (OIA), which...
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Are millennials gender rebels or returning to tradition?
Credit: Oxford University Press Some research suggests that millennials are pushing boundaries by not only rejecting traditional distinctions between the sexes, both at home and...
Nidoviruses redundantly express genes and encode more proteins than previously believed,…
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA–Arteriviruses, a family of single-stranded RNA viruses that belongs to the order Nidovirales, produce more proteins and messenger RNAs than previously...
VA-Defense study aims to track mild traumatic brain injury over decades
Credit: Department of Defense An ambitious U.S. federally funded study is enrolling at least 1,100 service members and veterans who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan...
Vision symptoms following concussion limit a child’s ability to…
Credit: UAB News BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A comprehensive vision assessment should be part of return-to-learn protocols to help determine when children are ready to return...
Dogma overturned: New studies into inflammation in the infarcted heart could lead to changes in therapy
Credit: CNIC Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) and the Fundación Jiménez Díaz (FJD) and Salamanca University Hospitals have demonstrated...
Preterm infants have narrowed upper airways, which may explain higher obstructive sleep apnea risk
Credit: Credit: A. Smitthimedhin, et al, Clinical Imaging. Infants born preterm have significantly lower nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal volumes, compared with newborn peers carried to full...
Are elevated levels of mercury in the American dipper due to…
Credit: Veronica Silverthorn A study published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry used American dippers to determine if run-of-river (RoR) dams altered food webs and mercury...
USF Biologists find frog’s future health influenced by gut microbes as tadpoles
Credit: University of South Florida TAMPA, Fla. (July 20, 2017) – University of South Florida biologists have found that a crucial window in the development...
Timothy Ray Brown, cured of HIV, rallies public to support research…
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan. 17, 2018–In the 10th anniversary year since a bone marrow stem cell transplant cured Timothy...
For geriatric falls, ‘brain speed’ may matter more than…
Credit: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich. – "Why does a 30-year-old hit their foot against the curb in the parking lot and...
Longer hospital stays might reduce readmissions from post-acute care facilities
Credit: (C) 2017, The Health in Aging Foundation More than 25 percent of Medicare beneficiaries who are admitted to the hospital are sent to a...
A protein in mosquito spit can keep Dengue virus in check
Credit: Maya Tree Mosquito saliva influences transmission of viruses to a bitten mammalian host. For example, it contains factors that dampen the host immune response...
‘Hidden’ experiences of men forced to have sex with women revealed
The most frequent strategy used by women forcing men to have sex with them against their will is blackmail and threats, according to researchers at...
Cutting prison sentences could reduce spread of HIV, study suggests
Oxford, February 9, 2016 – Reducing the number of men who go to prison could help curb the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted...
