Humans proven to recognize partially obscured snakes more easily than other animals
Credit: Nobuyuki Kawai Nagoya, Japan - Some studies have suggested that the visual systems of humans and other primates are finely tuned to identify dangerous...
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Blood fats equal risk of pancreatitis
New research from the University of Copenhagen shows that mild to moderate levels of blood fats equals an increased risk developing acute pancreatitis. It is...
Medical professors question ‘residency placement fever’
Credit: Brown University For people with a greater than 50 percent chance of landing their top job choice and a greater than 90 percent chance...
Scientists identify key evolutionary catalyst for antibiotic resistance
A new study led by scientists at the University of Oxford has found that small DNA molecules known as plasmids are one of the key...
A public database of macromolecular diffraction experiments
Credit: M. Grabowski et al. The reproducibility of published experimental results has recently attracted attention in many different scientific fields. The lack of availability of...
Analog series-based scaffolds: a new definition that may aid medicinal chemistry
Credit: Future Science Group While the Bemis-Murcko approach to scaffold analysis has remained the go-to definition for computational medicinal chemistry for the past few decades,...
Tools to understand marine biodiversity and assess the environmental status of our oceans
Credit: Azti More than 250 European researchers have collaborated in developing new tools to understand marine biodiversity and assess the environmental status of our oceans,...
Use of bacteria to produce valuable substances from carbon dioxide
Credit: GU FRANKFURT. Microbes are already used on a wide scale for the production of fuels and base chemicals, but for this most of them...
Greenland fossils reveal global ecosystem recovery after mass extinction
Credit: Michal Zaton A new study published in Scientific Reports shows how higher latitude ecosystems recovered after the World's most cataclysmic extinction event 252 million...
ESMO Asia 2016: Cancer experts meet in Singapore from Dec. 16-19, 2016
LUGANO/SINGAPORE, 08 November 2016 - ESMO, the leading professional organisation for medical oncology, is pleased to announce the second ESMO Asia 2016 Congress, from 16...
Funding a set of essential medicines for low- and middle-income countries
Credit: UCLA Fielding School of Public Health As the world moves toward universal health coverage, the question arises: How can governments ensure equitable access to...
Scientists use advanced technology to better understand ataxia
According to a recent study published in JAMA Neurology, Northwestern Medicine scientists have examined more than a century of data of the genetic makeup of...
Genetically engineering disease-fighting cells
Credit: Caltech The human body produces T cells to recognize and fight disease. Each T cell has a unique T cell receptor (or TCR) on...
Genetic signaling pathway blocks formation of a cancer in the cerebellum
(TORONTO, Canada - Nov. 8, 2016) - A research team at the Krembil Research Institute has discovered that a signaling pathway which controls blood vessel...
Neuroscientists call for deep collaboration to ‘crack’ the human brain
The time is ripe, the communication technology is available, for teams from different labs and different countries to join efforts and apply new forms of...
