UTA awarded $6 million in 2016 to find new ways to identify and treat…
Credit: UTA The University of Texas at Arlington is becoming a major cancer research institute, receiving more than $6 million dollars in new grants in...
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The next step in preventing diabetes
Type 1 diabetes affects 30,000 individuals throughout Germany and is the most common metabolic disease in children and adolescents. To halt the ever-increasing incidence, the...
Intermittent electrical brain stimulation improves memory
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Sept. 7, 2017) – Intermittent electrical stimulation of an area deep inside the brain that degenerates...
I get by with help from my friends: Maintaining immune cells in head…
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina In an article published September 22, 2016 in Frontiers in Immunology, researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina...
A cancer’s surprise origins, caught in action
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Incentive to move
Credit: Source: Sonja-Verena Albers The biologist Dr. Tessa Quax has identified the structure of a central protein used by archaea to determine the direction to...
University of Kentucky researchers discover three new primate species
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 3, 2016) – Three new species of mouse lemurs – the smallest primates in the world – have been discovered by scientists...
‘Plant cinema’ shows the flow of energy
Credit: (c) Stephan Wagner Nothing works without fuel: plants also depend on fuel for growth and development. In living organisms, fuel comes as the universal...
Research Society on Alcoholism grants Dr. Samuel W. French 2017…
Credit: LA BioMed LOS ANGELES – (April 3, 2017) – The Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA), an organization of researchers who specialize in the study...
Yeast infection linked to mental illness
In a study prompted in part by suggestions from people with mental illness, Johns Hopkins researchers found that a history of Candida yeast infections was...
Protecting piping plovers
Credit: Roger Eriksson EAST LANSING, Mich. – Visitors to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore are often treated to tiny scurrying beachcombers – piping plovers. Future...
Combined $54.5M gift creates a brighter future for children and women
(Edmonton) – The sound of footsteps ascending the stairs heralds six-year-old triplets David, Ryan and Liam Ennis. They spill into the living room laughing and...
New tiny arboreal toad species from India is just small enough for its own genus
IMAGE: A Blythophryne beryet toad sitting on leaf surface. Credit: Dr. Ramesh K. Aggarwal Found on a herb bush, a toad of only 24 mm...
Food scientists are developing a low-cost tool for detecting bacteria in food, water
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Food scientist Lili He and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that they have developed a new,...
New Wayne State research findings offers hope to people with…
Credit: Julie O'Connor, Wayne State University DETROIT – A novel psychological therapy that encourages addressing emotional experiences related to trauma, conflict and relationship problems has...
