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...
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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...
Adaptive management of soil conservation is essential to improving…
Credit: Helen Jarvie The quality of our rivers and lakes could be placed under pressure from harmful levels of soluble phosphorus, despite well-intended measures to...
Computer game helps scientists understand animal camouflage
Credit: University of Exeter Online computer games played by more than 30,000 people have helped scientists understand animal camouflage and colour vision. Researchers from the...
Visitor patterns and emerging activities in national parks revealed by social media posts
Credit: Vuokko Heikinheimo Researchers from the Digital Geography at the University of Helsinki have been studying whether social media data could be used to understand...
Drinking green tea to prevent artery explosion
Credit: Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan — Japan’s favorite beverage might be offering more than just a relaxing tea break. According to new research, green tea...
Medical professors question ‘residency placement fever’
Credit: Brown University For people with a greater than 50 percent chance of landing their top job choice and a greater than 90 percent chance...
Achieving National HIV/AIDS Strategy targets would save lives, be cost…
HIV, the AIDS virus (yellow), infecting a human immune cell. Credit: Seth Pincus, Elizabeth Fischer and Austin Athman, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,...
