Toward opioid vaccines that can help prevent overdose fatalities
In 2014, the number of deaths from opioid overdoses in the U.S. jumped to its highest level on record. The spike brought national attention to...
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Blocks of ice demonstrate levitated and directed motion
Credit: S. Dorbolo/University of Liege WASHINGTON, D.C., December 7, 2016 -- Resembling the Leidenfrost effect seen in rapidly boiling water droplets, a disk of ice...
Supportive care for cancer patients remains inadequate
LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 7th December, 2016 - Pain relief and other forms of supportive care for cancer patients are insufficient, researchers report at the ESMO ASIA 2016...
Summary of research presented at the IASLC 17th World Conference on Lung Cancer
Credit: IASLC Vienna, Austria--December 7, 2016--Today's press briefing at the IASLC 17th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) focused on clinical trials that advance the...
Cheaper and more sustainable sweeteners
Credit: Public Domain Polyalcohols are widely used in the food industry, especially in candy and gum because they bring the sweet without the risk of...
Follow-up by trained nurses helps myocardial infarction patients
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) The quality of life of elderly myocardial infarction patients can be significantly improved without extra...
Beware: Children can passively ‘smoke’ marijuana, too
Relaxing with a joint around children is not very wise. Not only do youngsters inhale harmful secondary smoke in the process, but the psychoactive chemicals...
Understanding necrophilia: A global interdisciplinary approach (cognella)
Credit: University of Huddersfield NO case of necrophilia has ever come before UK courts, although British awareness of the offence is high - and was...
Plants engineered to express a fruit fly gene may help clean up environmental pollutant
Through a process called phytoremediation, researchers are using plants to clean up land contaminated with TNT, a toxic environmental pollutant and possible carcinogen. Now a...
Molecular switches researched in detail
(Ruhr-University Bochum) Seeing, smelling, tasting, regulation of blood pressure -- molecular switches are involved in all of these processes. The mechanism with which these proteins...
Springer offers flexible purchasing option for Springer Book Archives
Credit: Springer Springer now offers its Springer Book Archives (SBA) in smaller year set packages. The new SBA packages are divided up into "eras," and...
Major urinary proteins do not allow kin recognition in male mice
Credit: Kerstin Thonhauser/Vetmeduni Vienna The urine of house mice, unlike humans, contains large amounts of proteins, which are mainly major urinary proteins or MUPs. These...
Miraculous proliferation
Researchers from a group led by ETH professor Martin Loessner discovered a few years ago that rod-shaped Listeria can become spherical. These L-forms differ fundamentally...
Queen’s University expert leading €4m bid to reduce impact of chemicals on long-term health
(Queen's University Belfast) A Queen's University Belfast expert is leading a €4m international initiative to investigate whether natural toxins and manmade chemicals are creating potentiall..
Fighting contaminated land with help from the humble fruit
Scientists have discovered that a gene found in the common fruit fly can be successfully expressed in a plant and used to detoxify land contaminated...
