UTA wins funding to help first-generation, low-income, minority undergraduates
Credit: UT Arlington The University of Texas at Arlington received a $1.4 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education to further the efforts...
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Effort to create mouse that more closely mirrors human Alzheimer’s wins federal grant
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 10, 2017 - A proposal to humanize several mouse genes for research into Alzheimer's disease has spurred the National Institute on Aging...
Call to action on food justice and overcoming disparities in infant nutrition
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 10, 2017--The "first food system" in the U.S., which calls for exclusive feeding of breast...
How to ‘cook’ an egg without heat — and other weird egg science (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 2017 -- You can learn a lot from eggs. The versatile, delicious, humble chicken egg. You can...
Flexible sensors can detect movement in GI tract
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers CAMBRIDGE, MA - Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have built a flexible sensor that can be rolled...
New Zika serotypes may emerge, researcher warns
Zika virus is mutating so fast in Brazilian patients that different serotypes of the pathogen could appear in the near future, as is already the...
Growing human brain cells in the lab
San Francisco, CA--Li Gan, PhD, wants to find treatments to help patients with Alzheimer's disease. Like most researchers, she's hit a few major roadblocks. When...
Study identifies whale blow microbiome
Credit: Photo by John Durban (NOAA), Holly Fearnbach (SR3) and Lance Barrett- Lennard (Coastal Ocean Research Institute). Drone collected samples provide new tool for health...
Meeting an unmet need: A surgical implant that grows with a child
(BOSTON) -- Medical implants can save lives by correcting structural defects in the heart and other organs. But until now, the use of medical implants...
New mutations in iPS cells are mainly concentrated in non-transcriptional regions
Induced pluripotent stem cells--stem cell-like cells that have been reprogrammed from normal body cells--are a promising avenue of regenerative medicine, and are currently being tested...
Evolution: The beneficiaries of mass extinction
Credit: Victor O. Leshyk, website: victorleshyk.com Mass extinctions were followed by periods of low diversity in which certain new species dominated wide regions of the...
Home-Brewed Poppy Seed Tea Can Be Lethal, Study Finds
Credit: Harriet McHale/SHSU HUNTSVILLE, TX (10-10-17) -- A home-brewing technique used to extract morphine from unwashed poppy seeds can produce lethal doses of the drug,...
Research clarifies nuclear hormone receptor function in plants
Credit: IGDB The striking capacity for plants to adapt their growth and development to an ever-changing environment is mediated by diverse plant hormones that regulate...
Giant bacteria make algae easy to stomach
Credit: © 2017 Till Rothig and Anna Roik Red Sea surgeonfish use metabolically diverse giant bacteria to digest different types of algae, according to new...
A new genetic marker accounts for up to 1.4 percent of cases of hereditary colon cancer
Credit: IDIBELL Researchers from the Hereditary Cancer group of the Oncobell Program of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) - Hereditary Cancer Program of the...
