Upward mobility boosts immunity in monkeys
Credit: Photo by Lauren Brent, University of Exeter DURHAM, N.C. -- The richest and poorest Americans differ in life expectancy by more than a decade....
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Scientists propose 10 policies to protect vital pollinators
Pesticide regulation, diversified farming systems and long-term monitoring are all ways governments can help to secure the future of pollinators such as bees, flies and...
Bringing silicon to life
Credit: Frances Arnold lab/Caltech A new study is the first to show that living organisms can be persuaded to make silicon-carbon bonds--something only chemists had...
For platinum catalysts, tiny squeeze gives big boost in performance, Stanford study says
Credit: L.A. Cicero/Stanford News Service A nanosize squeeze can significantly boost the performance of platinum catalysts that help generate energy in fuel cells, according to...
Bringing carbon-silicon bonds to life
Credit: Frances Arnold Lab/Caltech Following a few tweaks, heme proteins can efficiently catalyze the formation of carbon-silicon bonds, which are not found in any known...
Tissue damage is key for cell reprogramming
Cell reprogramming does not happen exactly as we thought. In the pages of the journal Science, a team from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre...
Researchers discover most winter boots are too slippery to walk safely on icy surfaces
Credit: UHN (TORONTO, Canada - Nov. 24, 2016) - A team of researchers from the iDAPT labs at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-University Health Network are dedicated...
Endangered Australasian marsupials are ancient survivors of climate change
Credit: Michael Westerman In a new paper, published in Scientific Reports, an international team of researchers has analysed fossils and DNA from living and recently...
Macrophage-dependent IL-1β production induces cardiac arrhythmias in diabetic mice
One of the most serious complications of diabetes, heart arrhythmias, is now on its way to be prevented and combated. Researchers from the Federal University...
First steps to neutralizing Zika
Credit: Victor Kostyuchenko, Duke-NUS Medical School As Zika spreads throughout the world, the call for rapid development of therapeutics to treat Zika rings loud and...
A new perovskite could lead the next generation of data storage
Credit: László Forró/EPFL EPFL scientists have developed a new perovskite material with unique properties that can be used to build next-generation hard drives. As we...
In highly lethal type of leukemia, cancer gene predicts treatment response
Credit: Washington University Patients with the most lethal form of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) - based on genetic profiles of their cancers - typically survive...
Study finds link between surgery and Guillain-Barré syndrome
(American Academy of Neurology) A new study suggests that having surgery may be linked to developing Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) for people with cancer or autoimmune...
Going beyond genetics yields clues to challenging childhood brain cancer
Credit: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- Cancer is often seen as a disease of genetic changes. But one type of childhood...
Study suggests that parental health behaviors may influence children’s sleep
DARIEN, IL - A new study indicates that children's sleep duration may be influenced by parental sleep duration and confidence, which suggests that efforts to...
