Stanford researchers probe the complex nature of concussion
It seems simple enough: Taking a hard hit to the head can give you a concussion. But, Stanford researchers report March 30 in Physical Review...
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Monash discovery uncovers clue to disarm gonorrhea superbug
Credit: Monash University Every year, more than 100 million people worldwide develop the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhoea, with health consequences such as infertility, transmission of...
Gut microbes could help better predict risk of hospitalization for patients with cirrhosis
Credit: VCU The gut microbiome -- a collection of bacteria and other microbes in the gut -- could be a highly accurate predictor of hospitalizations...
Cracking eggshell nanostructure
Credit: Professor Marc McKee, McGill University How is it that fertilized chicken eggs manage to resist fracture from the outside, while at the same time,...
Bioinspired slick method improves water harvesting
Credit: University of Texas at Dallas By learning how water is collected by living organisms, including rice leaves and pitcher plants, scientists at The University...
Butterflies of the soul
Modern neuroscience, for all its complexity, can trace its roots directly to a series of pen-and-paper sketches rendered by Nobel laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal...
Federal officials urged to increase perinatal depression treatment in minority women
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Despite Latinas' and African-American women's increased risks of perinatal depression and the availability of reliable screening...
Optimistic Latinos have healthier hearts, study finds
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Latinos who are the most optimistic are more likely to have healthy hearts, suggests a new...
Linking teen driving behaviors to ADHD, other mental health factors
Teenage drivers ages 16 to 19 are three times more likely to get into fatal accidents than their older counterparts. In this age group, around...
Basking sharks gather in large groups off northeast US coast
Groups of basking sharks ranging from as few as 30 to nearly 1,400 individual animals have been observed aggregating in waters from Nova Scotia to...
Can a Mediterranean diet pattern slow aging?
A series of six articles appearing in the March issue of The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences finds new correlations...
Tufts CTSI and The Jackson Laboratory announce research and training collaboration
Leaders from Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) today announced a new five-year collaboration to advance transl..
Adult-onset neurodegeneration has roots in early development
The disease mechanism for adult-onset progressive degenerative diseases begins much earlier than previously thought, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in the Journal of...
Calculating the impacts of natural events on wildlife
Credit: Iwasaki A. and Noda T., Scientific Reports, Jan. 15, 2018 A new method could help scientists understand how wildlife populations are affected by major...
Proposed border wall will harm Texas plants and animals, scientists say
Credit: Andrew Morffew In the latest peer-reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, conservation biologists, led by a...
