Looking different than your parents can be an evolutionary advantage
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Looking different to your parents can provide species with a way to escape evolutionary dead ends, according to new research from Queen...
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Shorter telomeres reveal stress in migratory birds
Credit: C. Billman The stress of birds' continent-spanning annual migrations, it appears, leads to faster aging and a potentially earlier death. A new study in...
Physical activity good for your health, but what’s happening below the surface?
Credit: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The University of Michigan was recently awarded $8.2 million from the National Institutes of Health...
Insilico Medicine to present on applications of DL to drug discovery…
Credit: Insilico Medicine Tuesday, October 25, Baltimore, MD – Insilico Medicine today announced that it will present its recent advances in applying deep learning techniques...
Growing teeth and a backbone: Studies trace early origins of skeletal tissues
Credit: Katharine Criswell and Robert Criswell WOODS HOLE, Mass.– Two new studies on the evolutionary origin of teeth and of vertebra further illuminate the human...
Veterinary surgeons perform first-known brain surgery to treat…
Credit: Courtesy of Mystic Aquarium. GRAFTON, Mass. (December 27, 2017)– A neurosurgical team at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University has successfully performed...
Septic shock patients have better outcomes when their heart rates are…
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Researchers at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City, along with researchers from four other centers, including Harvard Medical School, have...
‘Wing prints’ may identify individual bats as effectively as fingerprints identify people
Credit: The image was used as Figure 1 in their study, 'Bat wing biometrics: using collagen-elastin bundles in bat wings as a unique individual identifier.'...
With community health center fund expiration looming, health center…
Credit: Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative WASHINGTON, DC and NEW YORK (September 14, 2017)–If Congress fails to renew a critical fund for community...
Racial, ethnic disparities in pediatric readmission rates for chronic disease vary by…
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON – Disparities in pediatric readmission rates for chronic conditions such as asthma, depression, diabetes, migraines, and seizures vary, with...
Garret FitzGerald awarded an honorary fellowship by British Pharmacological Society
Credit: Sabina Louise Pierce PHILADELPHIA — Garret A. FitzGerald, MD, FRS, director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics in the Perelman School of...
Salk Institute ranked #2 in world for life sciences collaborations by…
Credit: Nature Research LA JOLLA–(November 17, 2016) The Salk Institute ranks second in the world for high-quality, high-impact scientific collaborations in the life sciences, and...
There’s a close association between magnetic systems and certain states of brain…
Credit: UGRdivulga Scientists from the University of Granada (UGR) have proven for the first time that there is a close relationship between several emerging phenomena...
Lose fat, preserve muscle: Weight training beats cardio for older…
Credit: WFU / Ken Bennett Weight training or cardio? For older adults trying to slim down, pumping iron might be the way to go. A...
Free lung-cancer screening in the Augusta area finds more than double the cancer rate of…
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 9, 2017) – The first year of free lung cancer screening in the Augusta, Georgia area found more than...
