Astronauts experience decrease in blood vessel function during…
Credit: NASA MANHATTAN, KANSAS — Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have decreased physical fitness because of a decrease in the way oxygen moves through...
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Medicaid expansion states saw ER visits go up, uninsured ER visits go…
Credit: American College of Emergency Physicians WASHINGTON — States that expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act (the ACA) saw 2.5 emergency department visits...
Research discredits theory that e-cigarettes make tobacco use socially acceptable
Credit: Centre for Substance Use Research Centre for Substance Use and Research, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 20 December 2016 – A study conducted by the Glasgow-based...
Drought defense
Credit: Connor Fitzpatrick Just as the microorganisms in our gut are increasingly recognized as important players in human health and behavior, new research from the...
Brain reorganization supports recovery of function in hand transplant recipients
Credit: MU School of Medicine When a person loses a hand, nerves that control sensation and movement are severed. This trauma deprives sensory and movement...
Protein insights to help find heart disease cure
Research led by The Australian National University (ANU) has uncovered new insights into how the human genome gets through the daily grind with the help...
Scientists uncover re-evolution of disruptive camouflage in horned praying mantises
A scientist from The Cleveland Museum of Natural History led research that revised the horned praying mantis group and traced the evolution of its distinctive...
Tennessee’s Tyson Raper named 2018 Outstanding Young Cotton Physiologist
Credit: Ginger Rowsey, courtesy UTIA. JACKSON, Tenn. – Tyson Raper, assistant professor with the University of Tennessee Department of Plant Sciences and UT Extension cotton...
$8.9 million collaborative grant to understand how dangerous virus ‘hides’ to attack…
Credit: Jason Ryder The University of Arizona's Felicia Goodrum, PhD, and some of the nation's most prominent human cytomegalovirus researchers have been awarded a five-year,...
Grant enables study of mosquito virus as a genetic lab tool, malaria biocontrol
Credit: Jason Rasgon lab A virus that infects a species of malaria-transmitting mosquito could help scientists gain a better understanding of mosquito biology and eventually...
Berkeley Lab gets $4.6 million in functional genomics catalog project
Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab The Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is set to receive nearly $4.6 million over four years as...
Discovery of a unique subcellular structure determining the orientation of cell division
Cell division is a fundamental process of life, producing two cells from one single cell at each cell division. During animal development, a fertilized egg...
ECDC rapid risk assessment outlines actions to reduce the spread of the mcr-1 gene
The recently recognised global distribution of the mcr-1 gene poses a substantial public health risk to the EU/EEA. The gene is widespread in several continents...
Enzyme with surprising dual function
Credit: © Foto: Barbara Frommann/Uni Bonn Scientists at the University of Bonn have clarified a surprising dual function of ceramide synthase. The enzyme not only...
Scientists surprised to discover lymphatic ‘scavenger’…
Credit: UQ's Institute for Molecular Bioscience The brain has its own inbuilt processes for mopping up damaging cellular waste — and these processes may provide...
