Drug for narcolepsy could help food addicts lose weight
Overweight people could be given help with the discovery that a drug used for sleep disorder could also reduce the impulse for food. There are...
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UCI team to play key role in national study on how physical activity benefits health
Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI Irvine, Calif., Dec. 13, 2016 -- With the support of a major National Institutes of Health initiative, University of California,...
Science and legal experts debate future uses and impact of human genome editing in Gender & the Genome
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 13, 2016--Precise, economical genome editing tools such as CRISPR have made it possible to make...
Oregon researchers find bacterial protein that boosts insulin-producing cells in zebrafish
Credit: Courtesy of Jennifer Hampton Hill EUGENE, Ore. -- Dec. 13, 2016 -- A newly discovered bacterial protein produced in the zebrafish gut triggers insulin-producing...
Switchgrass may be a good option for farmers who have lost fertile topsoil
COLUMBIA, Mo. - The loss of fertile topsoil from agricultural fields is an economic problem for modern farmers. When runoff water washes topsoil from agricultural...
Rural nursing homes are falling behind in health information technology
Credit: MU News Bureau COLUMBIA, Mo. - According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 1 million older Americans depend on nursing...
NASA provides 2 views of former Tropical Cyclone Vardah
Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce NASA satellite data provided a look at the cloud cover and rainfall rates within Tropical Cyclone Vardah. The...
McMaster engineer named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Credit: McMaster University, Faculty of Engineering HAMILTON, Ont. (Dec. 13, 2016) -- Dr. Ali Emadi of McMaster University's Faculty of Engineering has been named a...
Laboratory-on-a-chip technique simplifies detection of cancer DNA biomarkers
WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 13, 2016 -- Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the U.S., making early, reliable diagnosis and treatment a priority...
Young, thin and hyperactive: That’s what outlier galaxies look like
If we put the galaxies for which we have the relevant data into a graph relating the mass of stars in each galaxy with the...
Topical skin cream for treatment of basal cell carcinoma shows promise as an alternative to surgery
Credit: Journal of Investigative Dermatology Philadelphia, PA, December 13, 2016 - Basal cell carcinoma (BCC), a type of skin cancer, is the most common form...
Studies probe value and impact of direct-to-consumer genetic testing
Despite being on the market for nearly a decade, direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing continues to be controversial among experts and raises concerns among health care...
Squeezing life from DNA’s double helix
Credit: Xiaojiang Chen, USC For years, scientists have puzzled over what prompts the intertwined double-helix DNA to open its two strands and then start replication....
CSU uses test for chronic wasting disease to study brain ailments in people
Credit: CSU Photography Wildlife disease experts at Colorado State University are investigating whether a test developed to detect early-stage chronic wasting disease in deer might...
Study first to show role of Parkin gene in eye lens free radical formation, cell survival
Credit: Florida Atlantic University Although mutations in the PARK2 gene that encodes the Parkin protein are associated with developing early-onset Parkinson's disease (PD), much remains...
