Study: Opioid prescribing declines following release of national guidelines for physicians
Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Dec. 14, 2016--The rate of opioid use in Canada has fallen 13.7 per cent since the publication in...
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Southern elephant seals may adjust their diving behavior to stay in prey patches
Credit: Christophe Guinet When southern elephant seals find dense patches of prey, they dive and return to the surface at steeper angles, and are more...
This week from AGU 12/14/2016
American Geophysical Union Dec. 14, 2016 This Week from AGU: Finger-like structures on Mars could harbor potential evidence of past life ** Access a live...
The galloping evolution in seahorses
Credit: Ralf Schneider Without a doubt, the seahorse belongs to Darwin's "endless forms most beautiful". Its body form is one of a kind. It has...
Plant’s response to heat stress fluctuates between day and night
Credit: The illustration is provided courtesy of Eunkyoo Oh. Stanford, CA--Climate change and recent heat waves have put agricultural crops at risk, which means that...
Rain out, research in
Credit: Photo credit Surya Kant In many parts of the world, lack of sufficient water makes it difficult - or impossible - to grow crops....
Researchers reveal how cancer can spread even before a tumor develops
(New York, NY - December 12, 2016) -- Even before tumors develop, breast cancer cells with a few defined molecular alterations can spread to organs,...
TGen joins with Banner Health to study sports-related brain injuries
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Dec. 14, 2016 -- Banner Health and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) today announced a partnership to find a quicker and...
Bring your own (security) disaster
Bring your own device (BYOD) to work is common practice these days. Almost everyone has a smart or a tablet and in many office and...
Newly formed stars shoot out powerful whirlwinds
Credit: (Image: Per Bjerkeli/David Lamm/BOID) Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have used the ALMA telescopes to observe the early stages in the formation of...
New, complex call recorded in Mariana Trench believed to be from baleen whale
CORVALLIS, Ore. - A sound in the Mariana Trench notable for its complexity and wide frequency range likely represents the discovery of a new baleen...
Researchers work to improve the lifecycle of materials
When most living creatures get hurt, they can self-heal and recover from the injury. But, when damage occurs to inanimate objects, they don't have that...
Garth Powis named as NAI Fellow
Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute La Jolla, Calif., Dec. 13, 2016 - Garth Powis, professor and director of Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery...
Researchers turn back the clock on human embryonic stem cells
Credit: Elias Zambidis and Yulian Zhao Johns Hopkins scientists report success in using a cocktail of cell-signaling chemicals to further wind back the biological clock...
McEwen Centre scientists produce functional heart pacemaker cells
(TORONTO, Canada - Dec. 14, 2016) - Scientists from the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University Health Network, have developed the first functional pacemaker cells...
