Heat-loving Australian ants believe in diversity, hint 74 species new…
Credit: Dr. Brian Heterick The 'furnace ants' or 'honeypot ants' present a very large genus of ants, Melophorus, confined to Australia. Long believed to be...
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Cedars-Sinai team develops risk assessment score to predict, help…
Credit: Cedars-Sinai Los Angeles — June 26, 2017 — A Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute investigator and his team have developed a new risk assessment tool that...
Zika infects the eyes of adult mice
Mouse models of Zika infection in adults confirm that the virus can infect specific regions of the eye, resulting in uveitis and conjunctivitis–a symptom observed...
A visual database of human plasma compounds
Credit: Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization Researchers in Japan have created a database of metabolites from blood samples collected from over 5,000 Japanese volunteers, making it...
Malignant network makes brain cancer resistant
Incurable astrocytomas, including the particularly malignant glioblastomas, diffusively grow like mycelium into healthy brain tissue. Therefore, these tumors cannot be completely removed by surgery an..
Scientists and students tackle omics at NASA workshop
Credit: NASA As Houston gears up for the Super Bowl, scientists and students are tackling Omics during the 2017 NASA Human Research Program (HRP) Investigators'...
Kenan Charitable Trust awards $1.5 million to UNC Health Affairs…
Credit: UNC School of Nursing Chapel Hill, N.C. — July 5, 2017 — The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust has awarded the School of...
New blood spot test used internationally in fight against HIV
Researchers at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at CU Anschutz have developed a technique that estimates an HIV-negative patient's adherence to drugs...
Zika virus alerts may have prompted uptick in abortion requests in Latin America
PRINCETON, N.J.–Pregnant women in Latin American countries were more likely to seek an abortion after receiving health alerts about Zika virus, according to a study...
Eight children born after uterus transplants
Credits: Johan Wingborg Eight children born – and the first robot-assisted operation performed. These are some of the results of 18 years of research at...
First-in-man trial of MERS vaccine begins at Walter Reed Army…
SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) began vaccinations today in a Phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate the safety...
Rothamsted partnership is ‘the industrial strategy in action’
Credit: Rothamsted Research Today saw the official opening of Timac Agro UK's new head office on the Rothamsted campus, by Bim Afolami, MP for Hitchin...
Ringing in ears keeps brain more at attention, less at rest, study…
Credit: Photo by Joyce Seay-Knoblauch CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Tinnitus, a chronic ringing or buzzing in the ears, has eluded medical treatment and scientific understanding. A...
The biological clock of plants
Credit: Screenshot: research_tv The Americans Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael W. Young were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for their...
Usutu virus is back — not only in blackbirds but also in humans
Credit: Georg Mair/Vetmeduni Vienna Usutu virus, a flavivirus of African origin, was first detected in Austria in 2001, when it caused a severe bird die-off,...
