Most mammals have a greater life expectancy in zoos
How long do animals live? Although the question seems trivial, it is not easy to answer - especially in the case of free-ranging animals, as...
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Herbivory and climate change factors may significantly increase BVOC emissions from boreal conifers
Boreal conifer forests are sources of biogenic volatile organic compound (BVOC) emissions into the atmosphere. Global warming exposes boreal trees to biotic stress caused by...
Patagonian fossil leaves reveal rapid recovery from dinosaur extinction event
Credit: Peter Wilf, Penn State Ancient feeding marks from hungry insects in South American leaf fossils are shedding new light on the mass extinction that...
Nanocellulose in medicine and green manufacturing
Credit: Martin Chiang, National Institute of Standards and Technology. What if you could take one of the most abundant natural materials on earth and harness...
Three key practices in hospital HR departments linked to exemplary patient care
COLUMBIA, Mo. (Nov. 7, 2016) -- While employee salaries and wages can account for up to 80 percent of the total operating budget in health...
Results from PRISON IV presented at TCT & published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
WASHINGTON - Nov. 2, 2016 - Results from a randomized, multicenter trial failed to show non-inferiority of hybrid, ultra-thin strut sirolimus-eluting stents (Osiro SES) with...
Real-world US post-FDA approval usage of the Watchman device presented at TCT 2016
WASHINGTON - November 2, 2016 - Results from the U.S. real-world, post-FDA approval experience of the Watchman device found high procedural success and low complication...
TGen discovers potential drug targets to reduce pain in pancreatic cancer patients
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Nov. 7, 2016 -- The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has discovered potential drug targets to reduce pain in pancreatic cancer patients....
Rice U. lab creates open-source optogenetics hardware, software
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Nobody likes a cheater, but Rice University bioengineering graduate student Karl Gerhardt wants people to copy his answers. That's the whole...
New coral research exposes genomic underpinnings of adaptation
Credit: Carly Kenkel Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have observed for the first time that separate populations of the same species --...
Human Evolution: Our Brains and Behavior by Robin Dunbar
The story of human evolution has fascinated us like no other: we seem to have an insatiable curiosity about who we are and where we...
University of Toronto study reveals secret to a happy sex life
Nov. 7, 2016 TORONTO, ON - The secret to a happy sex life in long-term relationships is the belief that it takes hard work and...
Pitt researchers uncover key mechanisms of cancer, aging and inflammation
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 7, 2016 - A team of University of Pittsburgh researchers has uncovered new details about the biology of telomeres, "caps" of DNA that...
Tick-tock: Immune T cells know when their time’s up
An Australian research team has revealed that two internal 'clocks' control the immune cells enlisted to fight infection. This discovery upends previous theories on how...
New advance in RNA studies holds out hope for cancer drug development
An international research team led by the University of Leicester has made a breakthrough advance that could pave a new route for the development of...
