Fly larvae clean bee-eater’s nest
Credit: Herbert Hoi/Vetmeduni Vienna Birds share their nests with a rich community of other inhabitants like parasites and mainly invertebrates, such as insects, that are...
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Right timing is crucial in life
Credit: Copyright: Tobias Kaiser The non-biting marine midge Clunio marinus lives along Europe's tide-shapen coasts, where precise timing is of existential importance: Reproduction and oviposi..
Pregnant women at risk of getting the flu are not getting vaccinated
Credit: UBC Health-care professionals are hesitant to administer the flu vaccine to pregnant women, despite the potential life-saving benefits, according to a UBC study. The...
No association between sex-discordant blood transfusions and risk of death
In a study published in the journal Circulation researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Lund University examined how sex-discordant blood transfusions (i.e. blood from a woman...
Novel type of cell death in Huntington’s disease may lead to effective new therapies
Credit: Department of Neuropathology,Medical Research Institute Researchers centered at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) identify novel type of cell death in Huntington's disease that..
Road salt can change sex ratios in frog populations, study says
Naturally occurring chemicals found in road salts commonly used to de-ice paved surfaces can alter the sex ratios in nearby frog populations, a phenomenon that...
Research shows preference for non-lethal protection of species
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Americans believe endangered species are best protected when their habitats are protected and not when animal predators are killed, according to new...
Diabetes proves deadly for smokers
CHICAGO - While it is well known that smoking causes lung cancer, heavy smokers with diabetes are also at increased risk of death from causes...
Spray-printed crystals to move forward organic electronic applications
Has the time come to replace traditionally used silicon with printable organic semiconductor inks? University of Surrey scientists believe so, especially for future electronics that...
Protein and salt drive post-meal sleepiness
Credit: Keith Murphy Sleepiness after a large meal is something we all experience, and new research with fruit flies suggests higher protein and salt content...
Emergency video telemedicine positively impacts newborn resuscitation
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Approximately 10 percent of newborns require help breathing after birth, and 1 in 1,000 newborns require more intensive resuscitation measures. These infrequent,...
Sex, gender, or both in medical research
No one can deny that men and women have different genes, biology and anatomical features. However, only a minority of medical studies take this into...
Global brain initiatives generate tsunami of neuroscience data
Credit: Wikimedia Commons Three years ago the White House launched the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative to accelerate the development and application..
Bridging the advances in AI and quantum computing for drug discovery and longevity research
Credit: Insilico Medicine, Inc and YMK Photonics, Inc Tuesday, 22nd of November, 2016, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, Inc and YMK Photonics, Inc announced today...
New antiretroviral drugs decrease chances of HIV sexual transmission
Credit: IDIBELL More than 2 million people got infected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 2015, being sexual transmission the main channel of infection. Researchers...
