Going against the grain — nitrogen turns out to be hypersociable!
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski Going against the grain - nitrogen turns out to be hypersociable! Nitrogen is everywhere: even in the air there is...
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Even mildly excessive body iron stores increase the risk of type 2 diabetes
Even mildly elevated body iron contributes to the prevalence and incidence of type 2 diabetes, according to research from the University of Eastern Finland. Excess...
Young cancer survivors have twice the risk of suicide
Credit: Kim E. Andreassen This is the result of a national cohort study by researcher and medical doctor Maria Winther Gunnes at the Department of...
Vital vaccine could ‘reduce burden’ of dengue disease in hardest-hit regions
The first licensed vaccine for the potentially life-threatening dengue virus should only be used in moderate-to high impacted regions, new research has predicted. A team...
Zika and glaucoma linked for first time in new study
New Haven, Conn. -- A team of researchers in Brazil and at the Yale School of Public Health has published the first report demonstrating that...
Peptides as tags in fluorescence microscopy
Credit: (Picture: Franziska Neubert & Soeren Doose) Fluorescence microscopy visualizes the molecular elements of cells. Proteins of nerve cells, for instance, can be labelled using...
Microbubbles and ultrasound open the blood-brain barrier to administer drugs
Credit: UEIL, C. Sierra et al. The impassable blood-brain barrier prevents microorganisms from entering our brain, however it also blocks medicines that could help treat...
Scientists find a molecule to fight chemoresistant cancer
Credit: MIPT's Press Office A team of scientists from N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), N. K....
Prescribing of baclofen for alcohol dependence ‘should be reconsidered’
The drug baclofen has received high visibility as a possible breakthrough treatment for alcohol dependence*. Now a new randomised controlled trial from the University of...
Genomics technique could accelerate detection of foodborne bacterial outbreaks
Credit: Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention A new testing methodology based on metagenomics could accelerate the diagnosis of foodborne bacterial outbreaks, allowing public...
Big data analytics — nostradamus of the 21st century
With much of the debate as to whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton would win the election taking place online, people blogging, tweeting or updating...
Publishing platform ARPHA partners with Altmetric to track online attention to research
Credit: ZooKeys With a research output mentioned online every 1.8 seconds, it only makes sense for the science community to grow curious of how they...
NTU and Stratasys 3iD print operational ULTEM drone with embedded electronics
Loading video... Credit: NTU Singapore Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have 3D printed a ready-to-fly drone with embedded electronics using aerospace-grade ..
Towards therapeutic applications of mRNA: New insights into translation and decapping
Credit: Source: Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw Gene therapy gives hope to millions of patients. Researchers from the University of Warsaw have been working...
World-first research sheds light on the origin of the baleen whale
Credit: Ben Healley Monash University scientists have played a key role in discovering the origin of filter feeding in baleen whales -- the largest animal...
