Tooth wear sheds light on the feeding habits of ancient elephant relatives
Credit: drawing by Nicola Heath How can we ever know what ancient animals ate? For the first time, the changing diets of elephants in the...
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E-cigarettes potentially as harmful as tobacco cigarettes, UConn study…
Credit: Image courtesy of Karteek Kadimisetty and the journal ACS Sensors. Copyright 2017 American Chemical Society. A study by chemists at the University of Connecticut...
Computer accurately identifies and delineates breast cancers on digital tissue slides
Credit: Anant Madabhushhi A deep-learning computer network developed through research led by Case Western Reserve University was 100 percent accurate in determining whether invasive forms...
Condemned prisoners prefer formalwear at executions, UC study finds
Credit: New York World, 1899 What would you wear to your own execution? It's a moot question in the United States now as most death...
Queen’s University Belfast researcher turning dirty tinfoil into…
Credit: Queen's University Belfast A researcher at Queen's University Belfast has discovered a way to convert dirty aluminium foil into a biofuel catalyst, which could...
Gene study to shed light on how some people stay sharp in old age
Credit: University of Edinburgh More than one thousand people have had their entire genetic make-up decoded as part of a long-term study to gain insight...
More blood vessels in adipose tissue may alleviate type 2 diabetes
Researchers at Wihuri Research Institute and University of Helsinki, Finland, in collaboration with scientists from Vanderbilt and Groningen Universities used recombinant gene transfer technologies to..
Highly organized structures discovered in microbial communities with…
IMAGE: A "hedgehog " structure in dental plaque, collected from a healthy volunteer using a toothpick. Corynebacteria, shown in magenta, form the core of the...
ERs can improve population health in rural areas
Credit: American College of Emergency Physicians WASHINGTON — Emergency physicians in Michigan propose a new health care delivery model for rural populations that depends on...
New book offers help and hope for people suffering from low vision
Credit: Bernhard Sabel Magdeburg, Germany, December 14, 2016 – Becoming blind changes a person's life on a fundamental level. Because new treatments can be slow...
Liver may sway sweet tooth, alcohol consumption
IMAGE: Cravings for sweet foods are common, yet the mechanisms that influence the ''sweet tooth'' are not well-defined. This visual abstract depicts how in response...
Skeletons developed as chemistry of oceans changed, study shows
Credit: Alina Konovalenko Skeletons and shells first came into being 550 million years ago as the chemical make-up of seawater changed, a study suggests. Ancient...
IBS breakthrough in the treatment of cancer
Scientists from the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have successfully inhibited the growth of colon tumors in mice with mismatch repair deficiency. The research team,...
Conserved role for Ovo protein in reproductive cell development in mice and fruit flies
Credit: Image by Roblan/Shutterstock, Szasz-Fabian Jozsef/Shutterstock Tsukuba, Japan – Germline cells are the only cells that develop into eggs or sperm, while somatic cells develop...
Biological consequences of climate change on epidemics may be scale-dependent
Credit: IOZ Conventional thinking holds that current climate warming will increase the prevalence and transmission of disease. However, a recent study led by Prof. ZHANG...
