Treating cancer, mental health neglect in rural America
Jennifer Lycette, M.D., understands the importance of treating patients with cancer at home in their in rural communities. It allows them to spend more time...
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Personality traits and psychiatric disorders linked to specific genomic locations
A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has identified six loci or regions of the human genome that are significantly linked to personality traits, report...
Scientists determine how much damage memory devices can take in mass transit accidents
Credit: Jonathan Cohen/Binghamton University BINGHAMTON, NY - While investigating mass transit accidents, especially in air travel, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials often rely ..
UMMS scientists co-discover first ‘off-switches’ for CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing
Credit: University of Massachusetts Medical School CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing is quickly revolutionizing biomedical research, but the new technology is not yet exact. The technique can...
Climate change is already causing widespread local extinction in plant and animal species
Credit: Flickr user, wanderingseoul61 Extinctions related to climate change have already happened in hundreds of plant and animal species around the world. New research, publishing...
Against the tide: A fish adapts quickly to lethal levels of pollution
Credit: Andrew Whitehead/UC Davis Evolution is working hard to rescue some urban fish from a lethal, human-altered environment, according to a study led by the...
Researchers map neural circuitry of songbird learning
How do juvenile songbirds learn to sing in a way that preserves both the unique features of local song culture and their specifics-specific song "signature"?...
Report proposes standards for sharing data and code used in computational studies
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Reporting new research results involves detailed descriptions of methods and materials used in an experiment. But...
Artificial beta cells
Credit: ETH Zurich Researchers led by ETH Professor Martin Fussenegger at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE) in Basel have produced artificial beta...
Mobile money access lifted 2 percent of Kenyan households out of poverty, finds new study
Credit: Intersect New Haven, CT, Dec. 8 - A new study today shows that the expansion of mobile money helped bring hundreds of thousands of...
Study finds less fragmentation in muzzleloading and black powder cartridge rifles
CORVALLIS, Ore. - A new study found that traditional bullets for muzzleloading rifles and black powder rifle cartridges fragment less upon impact and may leave...
Scientists develop new drug screening tool for dystonia
Credit: Zac Caffall, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University researchers have identified a common mechanism underlying separate forms of dystonia, a family of brain...
Fishery bycatch rapidly driving Mexico’s vaquita to extinction, new studies find
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Barbara Taylor One of the most sophisticated networks of acoustic detectors ever developed for wildlife science has documented a devastating 34 percent per...
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation awards NARSAD Distinguished Investigator grants
The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation today announced the award of NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Grants valued at $1.5 million to 15 scientists, who are full...
Protein disrupts infectious biofilms
Credit: Kyle Costa/Caltech Many infectious pathogens are difficult to treat because they develop into biofilms, layers of metabolically active but slowly growing bacteria embedded in...
