Vitamin D pill a day may improve exercise performance and lower risk…
Taking vitamin D supplements can improve exercise performance and lower the risk of heart disease, according to the findings of a preliminary study presented today...
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Southern Africa’s cheetah population much smaller than believed
Credit: Stephanie Periquet DURHAM, N.C. — Populations of cheetahs in southern Africa have declined as farming and other human activities push deeper into the free-roaming...
Enzyme from briny deep resurrected in the lab
Credit: © 2017 André Antunes, Edge Hill University, UK. Mysterious microbes that thrive in hot and super-salty brine lakes at the bottom of the Red...
Better catalysts will remove carcinogenic chlorine compounds from…
The Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw has just unveiled two new catalysts developed in close cooperation with the...
Study reveals ways to improve outcomes, reduce costs for common heart procedure
Credit: Thinkstock Hospitals can improve patient care and reduce costs associated with coronary angioplasty if cardiologists perform more of these procedures through an artery in...
New tools to manipulate biology
Chemistry has provided many key tools and techniques to the biological community in the last twenty years. We can now make proteins that Mother Nature...
How ‘super organisms’ evolve in response to toxic environments
BAR HARBOR, MAINE – Scientists have long known that many diseases have a strong genetic component, but they are only recently paying more attention to...
Powerful anti-inflammatory molecule may block vision loss in diabetic…
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 3, 2017) – A more powerful version of an anti-inflammatory molecule already circulating in our blood may help protect...
75 years of geriatrics expertise on display at 2017 AGS Annual…
Credit: (C) 2017, American Geriatrics Society "I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it's more than that," extolled John...
Computer model developed for predicting the dispersion of vog
A paper published this month in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society details the development and utility of a computer model for the dispersion...
Novel type 2 diabetes risk model more accurately assesses disease…
New Rochelle, May 31, 2016–An innovative model for determining a person's risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) overcomes many of the challenges associated with...
Solving of a decade long mystery could help in fight against TB
Credit: Photo taken by Dr Julian Thorpe of the University of Sussex and Dr Simon Waddell of the Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Scientists have...
Dr. Paul Keim of TGen and NAU is named an AAAS Fellow
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nov. 23, 2015 — Dr. Paul Keim, Director of the Pathogen Genomics Division of the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and the...
NHGRI researchers home in on mutation profiles of clear cell…
Credit: Darryl Leja, NHGRI In the largest genomics study of clear cell endometrial cancer (CCEC) tumors to date, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) researchers...
Filling the gap: High-latitude volcanic eruptions also have global…
Credit: NASA Volcanic eruptions always seize the attention of climate scientists, because the sulfate aerosols formed in the volcanic plumes may stay months to years...
