Study finds Congo’s miners often resort to hunting wildlife for…
Credit: CREDIT: ©Charlotte Spira/WCS. KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo (May 26, 2017) – A new study by WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) has revealed how mining...
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Newly discovered infectious prion structure shines light on mad cow disease
(Edmonton, AB) Groundbreaking research from the University of Alberta has identified the structure of the infectious prion protein, the cause of "mad cow disease" or...
Repurposed drug found to be effective against Zika virus
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In both cell cultures and mouse models, a drug used to treat Hepatitis C effectively protected and...
nTIDE December 2017: Year-end job numbers cap record year for…
Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ – January 5, 2018. Despite December's lag in U.S. job numbers, Americans with disabilities continued to show strong gains...
New drug could help prevent artery disease in high-risk patients
Credit: Justin Kelley, University of Missouri Health According to the American Heart Association, approximately 2,200 Americans die each day from heart attacks, strokes and other...
Fruit discovery could provide new treatments for obesity, type 2…
A combination of two compounds found in red grapes and oranges could be used to improve the health of people with diabetes, and reduce cases...
Pulling power reveals new insights into membrane dynamics in human cells
Credit: University of Exeter Organelles are the functional units of a cell. Like different parts of a production line in a factory, they perform specialised...
Research reveals swaths of Asia inhabited by surprisingly related ‘Lizards of the Lost…
Credit: R.M. Brown LAWRENCE — A new paper appearing in Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows a varied collection of lizards throughout Asia to...
‘Switchable’ smart windows reduce energy consumption…
Credit: Eindhoven University of Technology Smart windows that act as blinds in the summer and let all the sunlight through in the winter. That's the...
Dangerous drug interactions uncovered with data science
Credit: E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune NEW YORK, NY (October 10, 2016)–Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center and the Data Science Institute at Columbia University have...
A brain link to autism
In a discovery that could offer valuable insights into understanding, diagnosing, and even treating autism, Harvard scientists for the first time have linked a specific...
Resistance to key HIV drug ‘concerningly common’
HIV drug resistance to tenofovir, an antiretroviral drug vital to most modern HIV treatment and prevention strategies, is surprisingly and worryingly common according to a...
Gigantic crocodile with T. rex teeth was a top land predator of the…
Credit: Giovanni Bindellini Little is known about the origin and early evolution of the Notosuchia, hitherto unknown in the Jurassic period. New research on fossils...
Study reveals significant role of dust in mountain ecosystems
Credit: Lindsay Arvin Trees growing atop the Bald Mountain Granite in the southern Sierra Nevada rely on nutrients from windblown atmospheric dust — more than...
Honeycomb maze offers significant improvement over current spatial navigation tests
Credit: Sainsbury Wellcome Centre A powerful new tool for the study of spatial memory was today described in Nature as a significant improvement over the...