Evidence lacking to support ‘lead diet’
Credit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. - For years, parents of children with high blood lead concentrations have been advised by health experts to provide...
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Inflammation in regeneration: A friend or foe?
Credit: Tokyo Institute of techonology Regeneration is an inherent property of life. However, the potential to regenerate differs across species: while fish and amphibians can...
Early deaths from childhood cancer up to 4 times more common than previously reported
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Treatments for childhood cancers have improved to the point that 5-year survival rates are over 80 percent. However, one...
Study shows US grasslands affected more by atmospheric dryness than precipitation
A new study showing dryness of the atmosphere affects U.S. grassland productivity more than rainfall could have important implications for predicting how plants will respond...
Available drug may protect ovaries and fertility from damage by chemotherapies
Loading video... Credit: NYU Langone Medical Center A drug already used to slow tumor growth may also prevent infertility caused by standard chemotherapies, according to...
Robot uses social feedback to fetch objects intelligently
Credit: Nick Dentamaro / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- If someone asks you to hand them a wrench from a table full of different sized...
Proper movements in Muslim prayer ritual can reduce lower back pain
Credit: Mohammad Khasawneh BINGHAMTON, NY- Five times a day, roughly 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide, bow, kneel, and place their foreheads to the ground in the...
Cancer ‘hot spots’ in Florida may be associated with hazardous waste sites
Credit: Justin Kelley/MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (March 6, 2017) -- Studies have shown that hazardous waste sites have the potential to adversely affect human health...
Vesicle formation findings could pave way for liquid biopsies, drug delivery devices
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Engineers at Carnegie Mellon University and biomedical researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Magee-Womens Research Institute have established a framework..
New materials could turn water into the fuel of the future
Credit: Caltech Researchers at Caltech and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have--in just two years--nearly doubled the number of materials known to have potential...
Bubble-recoil could be used to cool microchips, even in space
Credit: UIC/ALEXANDER YARIN The bubbles that form on a heated surface create a tiny recoil when they leave it, like the kick from a gun...
Study shows how skates, rays and sharks sense electrical fields
Credit: Julius Lab, UCSF Sharks, rays and skates can hunt for prey hidden in the sandy sea floor by "listening" for faint traces of bioelectricity...
Tree growth model assists breeding for more wood
PULLMAN, Wash. - A meeting in a forest between a biologist and a mathematician could lead to thicker, faster growing trees. "Mathematicians like translating biological...
NASA takes a double-look at Tropical Cyclone Blanche
Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team Tropical Cyclone Blanche formed on March 5 near Australia's Top End, and made landfall the next day...
Cosmic environments and their influence in star formation
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The scaffolding that holds the large-scale structure of the universe constitutes galaxies, dark matter and gas (from which stars...
