Kent research on pigment production reveals Achilles’ heel for MRSA
Credit: Dr Mark Shepherd, University of Kent Research co-led by bioscientists at the University of Kent provides a molecular explanation for how the bacterium behind...
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Risk factors, features and outcomes of invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella in Vietnam
Invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella (iNTS) infections occur when Salmonella bacteria, which normally cause diarrhea, enter the bloodstream and spread through the body. iNTS infections may cause...
Scientists culture human placenta stem cells for first time
Credit: Takahiro Arima In a milestone achievement for better understanding the development and function of the human placenta, scientists have derived and grown trophoblast stem...
Protein in, ammonia out
Credit: Photo credit Adeline Bougouin. Ammonia gas packs quite the smelly punch. In small doses, it's what makes smelling salts so effective. But high levels...
Transporter of thyroid hormones is crucial for the embryonal development of the brain
Credit: KU Leuven Lab of Comparative Endocrinology – Joke Delbaere & Pieter Vancamp Thyroid hormones are very important for the development of the brain. And...
Short RNA molecules mapped in single cell
Credit: Ulf Sirborn Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have measured the absolute numbers of short, non-coding, RNA sequences in individual embryonic stem cells. The new method...
Research finds enzymes essential for DNA repair
Credit: Image: Stuart Hay, ANU Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) and Heidelberg University in Germany have found an essential component in the DNA...
Chinese air pollution linked to respiratory and cardiovascular deaths
Credit: ATS Feb. 10, 2017–In the largest epidemiological study conducted in the developing world, researchers found that as exposures to fine particulate air pollution in...
Opioids, NSAIDs no different overall for persistent pain after vehicle…
Credit: Pixabay PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Persistent pain is common among the nearly 4 million Americans who arrive each year at hospital emergency departments (EDs) after...
After 18 million years, a new species of extinct rodent discovered in Israel
A handful of tiny teeth found in Israel's Negev desert led an international team of researchers to describe a new species of rodent which has...
Research reveals how the brain remembers fearful experiences
Credit: The Ji Lab/Baylor College of Medicine Understanding how the brain remembers can one day shed light on what went wrong when memory fails, such...
Kessler Foundation scientists find link between cognitive fatigue and effort and reward
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ. Sept. 5, 2017. Kessler Foundation researchers have authored a new article that has implications for our understanding of the...
DNA proves mammoths mated beyond species boundaries
Credit: ©AMNH Several species of mammoth are thought to have roamed across the North American continent. A new study in the open-access journal Frontiers in...
Clarifying the mechanism for making blood cells
IMAGE: The proposed model for the mechanism of making blood cells from hemangioblasts is shown. Credit: University of Tsukuba In 1917, Florence Sabin, the first...
AACR: Breast cancer stem cells radicalize normal neighbors for purpose of metastasis
A University of Colorado Cancer Center study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2016 shows that stem-like breast cancer cells secrete...
