How your neighborhood may impact your health
How physically active are you? It might depend, in part, on what type of neighborhood you live in, says Adriana Zuniga-Teran, a postdoctoral research associate...
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Sub-second system seizures
Professor Neil Johnson, a physicist at the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences, is interested in complex networks. He studies how fast-moving packets...
History of exercise helps prevent heart disease after breast cancer
While regular exercise is recommended as part of a heart-healthy lifestyle for any person, it also appears to help mitigate the increased cardiovascular risk faced...
Novel compound that engages ‘second arm’ of immune system reduces breast tumors and metastases
Credit: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON - For all the success of a new generation of immunotherapies for cancer, they often leave an entire branch of...
Study: Hormone replacement therapy may help improve women’s heart health, overall survival
LOS ANGELES (EMBARGOED UNTIL 2 P.M. ET MARCH 8, 2017) - Hormone replacement therapy has long been controversial as studies have associated it with health...
Ancient southern China fish may have evolved prior to the ‘Age of Fish’
Credit: Brian Choo An ancient fish species with unusual scales and teeth from the Kuanti Formation in southern China may have evolved prior to the...
Leaf-cutting ants learn to identify unsuitable plants from cues within the colony
Credit: Erik Frank Leaf-cutting ants can learn which plants are not suitable for the fungus gardens that supply their food before they even leave the...
Stanford biologists identify ancient stress response in corals
Credit: Image credit: Zack Gold Stanford marine biologists have discovered that corals activate a specific group of ancient, defensive genes when exposed to stressful environmental...
Student team competition provides real-world experience for O.R. and analytics students
CATONSVILLE, MD, March 7, 2017 - Eight student teams from around the world have been selected as finalists in the inaugural INFORMS O.R. and Analytics...
In battle for real estate, a disordered protein wins out
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, CA - March 8, 2017 - Research findings that first had scientists scratching their heads have turned out...
Researchers link methane in groundwater in Parker and Hood counties to natural sources
Credit: J.P. Nicot The University of Texas at Austin Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin have found that high levels of methane in...
Antioxidants and lung cancer risk
An epidemiological study published in Frontiers in Oncology suggests that a diet high in carotenoids and vitamin C may protect against lung cancer. The study...
Grant awarded to Sanford Simon will fund research to treat rare liver cancer
NEW YORK -- Dr. Sanford Simon, head of the Laboratory of Cellular Biophysics at Rockefeller University, has been awarded a $600,000 grant by the Fibrolamellar...
Cancer-causing benzene found in e-cigarette vapors operated at high power
Portland State University scientists have found that significant levels of cancer-causing benzene in e-cigarette vapors can form when the devices are operated at high power....
Oral delivery system could make vaccination needle-free
Loading video... Credit: UC Berkeley Patients could one day self-administer vaccines using a needleless, pill-sized technology that jet-releases a stream of vaccine inside the mouth,...
