Childhood poverty, poor support may drive up pregnant woman’s biological age
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Pregnant women who had low socioeconomic status during childhood and who have poor family social support appear to prematurely age on a...
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Ocean atmosphere rife with microbes
Credit: © 2016 Joan Costa Microbes in the atmosphere and the role of the oceans in their movement have been largely overlooked by researchers. Now,...
Nidoviruses redundantly express genes and encode more proteins than previously believed, study finds
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Arteriviruses, a family of single-stranded RNA viruses that belongs to the order Nidovirales, produce more proteins and messenger RNAs than previously...
Neutrons observe vitamin B6-dependent enzyme activity useful for drug development
Credit: Jill Hemman and Andrey Kovalevsky /Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 16, 2017 - Scientists at the Department...
DFG to fund electron microscopes for university research
At its autumn session, the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) approved the funding of 17 high-performance electron microscopes with a...
Cocktail tests on toxic waste called for
Credit: University of Barcelona Surprisingly low concentrations of toxic chemicals - from fungicides to antidepressants - can change the way some aquatic creatures swim and...
Germ-free hatching eggs: An alternative to formaldehyde application
Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz There was a Europe-wide outcry in the summer of 2017 as it emerged that hatching eggs were being treated...
Major advance in nanopore detection of peptides and proteins
Nanopore technology, which is used to sequence DNA, is cheap, hand-held and works in the jungle and in space. The use of this technology to...
Research to explore the development of deadly brain tumors
Credit: University of Plymouth Glioblastoma is the most common of malign brain tumours in adults, and it currently has no cure. Now a research team...
Flu vaccine failed to protect young leukemia patients during cancer treatment
Young leukemia patients who were vaccinated against influenza were just as likely as their unvaccinated peers to develop flu, suggesting that additional steps are necessary...
New antibiotic resistance genes found
Credit: Chalmers University of Technology Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have found several previously unknown genes that make...
When lemons give you life: Herpetofauna adaptation to citrus orchards in Belize
Credit: Russell Gray Natural habitat areas exhibit similar abundances and diversity of herpetofauna as citrus orchards and reclaimed orchard forests in Stann Creek, Belize, reports...
New UTSA study describes how dopamine tells you it isn’t worth the wait
How do we know if it was worth the wait in line to get a meal at the new restaurant in town? To do this...
Fanged kangaroo research could shed light on extinction
Credit: University of Queensland Fanged kangaroos - an extinct family of small fanged Australian kangaroos - might have survived at least five million years longer...
Study calls for less shame and secrecy around menstruation in global conflict areas
A new study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) found that girls and women in...
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