Do anti-wrinkle creams work? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 13, 2017 -- Want a younger, more perfect-looking you? Skin can stay firm and stretchy thanks to protein...
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Human reproduction likely to be more efficient than previously thought
How difficult is it to conceive? According to a widely-held view, fewer than one in three embryos make it to term, but a new study...
Why does an anesthetic make us lose consciousness?
Credit: Stefan_Schranz/ pixabay, CC 0 FRANKFURT. To date, researchers assumed that anesthetics interrupt signal transmission between different areas of the brain and that is why...
Finland has the world’s most energy-saving supermarket
Savings are also being achieved by levelling out power consumption peaks Under VTT's leadership, Finland has the world's most energy-efficient supermarket, which consumes only 40%...
£1.4M EPSRC Fellowship for physicist
(Lancaster University) A Lancaster University physicist has been awarded a £1.4M EPSRC Career Fellowship over five years.Dr Dmitry Zmeev is a member of the Lancaster...
C-Path and CDISC announce public review period for Duchenne Therapeutic Area Standard
TUCSON, Ariz., and AUSTIN, Texas - June 13, 2017 - The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) and Critical Path Institute (C-Path) announce the availability...
Spying on fish love calls could help protect them from overfishing
Credit: Jenna Luecke/Univ. of Texas at Austin About a third of the world's fish stocks are being overfished, meaning they're being harvested faster than they...
Mosquito-killing fungi engineered with spider and scorpion toxins could help fight malaria
Credit: Brian Lovett Malaria kills nearly half a million people every year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In some of the hardest-hit areas...
Autism risk linked to fever during pregnancy
Fever during pregnancy may raise the risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the child, according to a study led by scientists at the Center...
What makes a mother risk her life to protect her children
Credit: Shira Lottem/ Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown From birds to mammals, from fish to reptiles, the immediate reaction to an impending threat to the...
Study shows pharmacists knew more about penicillin allergy than MDs
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (June 13, 2017 - 12:01 am ET) - If you have gone through life avoiding certain antibiotics because you think you're allergic...
A SMARTer way to discover new stroke treatments
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A sequential multiple assignment randomized (SMART) trial allows researchers to test two hypotheses at once. The new trial...
New technology enables effective simultaneous testing for multiple blood-borne pathogens
Credit: Thermo Fisher Scientific Philadelphia, PA, June 13, 2017 - The emergence of new pathogens like West Nile Virus, Ebola, Dengue, and Zika, threaten human...
‘Big Food’ companies have less power than you might think
A Dartmouth study finds that "Big Food" companies are striving to make food more sustainable from farm to factory but have less power than you...
Where cigarette smoking’s damage is done… down to your DNA
Credit: Christ-claude Mowandza-ndinga (UNC Health Care) Scientists have known for decades that smoking cigarettes causes DNA damage, which leads to lung cancer. Now, for the...
