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...
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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...
Greater job satisfaction for transgender employees
Transgender individuals in the workplace can sometimes feel stigmatized, either through the actions and attitudes of their coworkers, or through their own fears of being...
Internet of Things (IoT) will demand a step-change in search solutions
Credit: University of Surrey Experts in next generation communications outline how internet search mechanisms will need to change to support the Internet of Things (IoT)...
Researchers develop soft, microfluidic ‘lab on the skin’ for sweat analysis
A Northwestern University research team has developed a first-of-its-kind soft, flexible microfluidic device that easily adheres to the skin and measures the wearer's sweat to...
Biologist awarded diabetes research prize for studies of fat cells
Credit: Charles LeDuc/Columbia University Medical Center NEW YORK, NY (November 23, 2016)--Columbia University has awarded the 2016 Naomi Berrie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Diabetes...
Jean-Claude Kieffer and François Légaré honored by the Royal Society of Canada
(Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS) Professors Jean-Claude Kieffer and François Legaré from INRS's Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications were honored at the Royal...
For wearable electronic devices, NIST shows plastic holes are golden
Credit: Reyes-Hernandez/NIST In science, sometimes the best discoveries come when you're exploring something else entirely. That's the case with recent findings from the National Institut..
Just add water: New discovery in plant-disease mechanism
We all know that when it rains, plants grow. When it doesn't, they don't. However, new research led by plant scientists at Michigan State University...
