$2.66 million NIH award to Wayne State to improve asthma treatment outcomes in African Am
Credit: Wayne State University DETROIT – Older adolescents and young adults are at the highest risk for poor asthma management and health outcomes, but few...
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How insects decide to grow up
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Like humans, insects go through puberty. The process is known as metamorphosis. Examples include caterpillars turning into butterflies and...
Temporary ambulance locations reduces response times and may save…
Ambulances deployed at temporary locations that can be changed depending on the time of day and accident statistics can reduce response time and may save...
First detailed decoding of complex finger millet genome
Credit: Mathi Thumilan Balachadran For many poor farmers in India and Africa, finger millet is a major staple food. The crop species is not only...
Mysterious protein-folding molecule could trigger metabolic disorders
Credit: Illustration provided courtesy of Dr. Feng Hong of the Medical University of South Carolina. The cell's response to unfolded or misfolded proteins could be...
Ketone nutritional supplements: Good or bad for athletic performance?
Credit: UBC Okanagan In the quest to improve physical performance, many athletes are turning to untested nutritional supplements. But in the case of one recently...
Newly revealed amino acid function could be used to boost antioxidant levels
Credit: Kobe University A Japanese research team has become the first in the world to discover that 2-aminobutyric acid (2-AB) is closely involved in the...
Zika virus infects developing brain by first infecting cells meant to defend against it
Credit: UC San Diego Health Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in Brazil, report that the Zika virus...
Scientists reveal herbal remedies containing aristolochic acid may…
Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School Scientists from Singapore and Taiwan have revealed a decisive link between Aristolochic Acids (AA), a natural product of some plants used...
Calcium lets T cells use sugar to multiply and fight infection
6 A calcium signal controls whether immune cells can use the nutrients needed to fuel their multiplication into a cellular army designed to fight invading...
A little myelin goes a long way to restore nervous system function
Credit: Submitted MADISON, Wisconsin – In the central nervous system of humans and all other mammals, a vital insulating sheath composed of lipids and proteins...
Creative approach to probing genome IDs genes that likely influence…
Credit: Josh Barney | UVA Health System In an important step in the battle against osteoporosis, a serious brittle bone disease that affects millions, researchers...
New test rapidly diagnoses Zika
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers CAMBRIDGE, MA — MIT researchers have developed a paper-based test that can diagnose Zika infection within 20 minutes. Unlike existing...
Scientists ID human protein essential for human cytomegalovirus replication
Credit: Lin Y-T, et al. (2017) Scientists have demonstrated that a human protein known as valosin containing protein (VCP) is essential for replication of human...
Identification of genes controlling mouthpart development key to insect diversity
Credit: Hiroki Gotoh Nagoya, Japan – Insects are a biological success story with their high abundance, dominating biodiversity, and almost worldwide distribution. Their evolutionary prowess...
