The delights of dirt
Credit: Springer Soil can be beautiful, odiferous, slimy or sublime. It provides simple pleasures, such as its rich earthy scent after warm rain or the...
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Researchers find pathologic hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease in aged chimpanzee brains
Credit: iStock ATLANTA — The brains of aged chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, show pathology similar to the human Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain, according to...
‘Hypermutators’ drive pathogenic fungi to evolve more…
Credit: Edmond Byrnes III, Joseph Heitman — Duke; Valerie Knowlton – NC State DURHAM, N.C. — Mutations tend to get a bad rap, and deservedly...
American Geriatrics Society voices opposition to amended American Health Care Act
Credit: (C) 2017, American Geriatrics Society Following a review of the recently released MacArthur Amendment to the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the American Geriatrics...
New mapping tool tracks elk migration to reduce brucellosis risk
Credit: Mark Gocke Wildlife managers and ranchers in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem soon will have a new mapping tool for reducing the risk of brucellosis...
UTHealth experts take part in US Surgeon General’s first youth…
Credit: UTHealth HOUSTON – (Dec. 8, 2016) – Researchers from the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living at The University of Texas Health...
Teens with autism and caregivers should plan early for adulthood
IMAGE: Nancy Cheak-Zamora said caregivers should start talking to their children with autism early about their plans for the future. Credit: MU News Bureau COLUMBIA,...
Free iPhone app could guide MS research, treatment
Credit: Photo by Duke University. DURHAM, N.C. — For some diseases, a simple blood test is all that's needed to estimate severity or confirm a...
Insights from a rare genetic disease may help treat multiple myeloma
Credit: The American Chemical Society A new class of drugs for blood cancers such as leukemia and multiple myeloma is showing promise. But it is...
Can melting of frozen methane explain rapid climate change 56 million…
New research, led by the University of Southampton, suggests that the release of methane from the seafloor was much slower than previously thought during a...
Parasitic plants may form weapons out of genes stolen from hosts
Credit: Huiting Zhang Sneaky parasitic weeds may be able to steal genes from the plants they are attacking and then use those genes against the...
Felling pines: Doing it sooner rather than later is better for fynbos
Credit: Stellenbosch University The restoration of fynbos is possible in areas where pines used to grow for up to 30 years, because there are still...
COPD, asthma now can be studied outside the body
A research team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University leveraged its organ-on-a-chip technology to develop a model of the human...
Unlocking the barrier
Credit: Gu Lab/Harvard Medical School Already extolled for their health benefits as a food compound, omega-3 fatty acids now appear to also play a critical...
Study shows blood products unaffected by drone trips
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine In what is believed to be the first proof-of-concept study of its kind, Johns Hopkins researchers have determined that large bags...
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