Implantable wireless devices trigger — and may block — pain signals
Building on wireless technology that has the potential to interfere with pain, scientists have developed flexible, implantable devices that can activate — and, in theory,...
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Harvest of nuisance black bears in New Jersey reducing human-bear…
Credit: New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife LOGAN, UTAH, USA – Is there room for black bears in human-dominated New Jersey? According to Utah...
Researchers collaborate to develop bird’s eye view of rural…
Credit: Wits University Scientists from the Wits School of Public Health, the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) in Kwa-Zulu Natal and the University of Limpopo...
How to increase the fat burned during exercise
When we exercise, our body's oxidation of fat and carbohydrates depends on the intensity and duration of the activity. A new study analyses the effect...
Autism Speaks releases new strategic plan for science
Credit: Autism Speaks Autism Speaks today released its Strategic Plan for Science 2018-2020, with emphasis on the organization's mission to enhance lives today and accelerate...
Canadian children’s nutrition suffers during school hours
Credit: UBC Public Affairs / Claire Tugault-Lafleur Canadian children don't eat enough vegetables, fruit and dairy products during school hours, causing them to fall short...
Validation of suspected somatic single nucleotide variations
Credit: Centre for Molecular Biology It has been proposed that somatic gene variations (SNV) present in few brain cells could facilitate the development of neurodegenerative...
Start codons in DNA may be more numerous than previously thought
Credit: Jeff Glasgow/Ariel Hecht/Kelly Irvine/NIST For decades, scientists working with genetic material have labored with a few basic rules in mind. To start, DNA is...
Endangered ibises benefit from joining egret flocks
Credit: N. Zhao Birds benefit from flocking together — even when they're not of a feather. According to a new study in The Auk: Ornithological...
NIH to expand critical catalog for genomics research
Credit: Ernesto Del Aguila, NHGRI The National Institutes of Health plans to expand its Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project, a genomics resource used by...
St. Michael’s Hospital leading study in Canada to identify…
Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Dec. 1, 2017–For many people living with HIV, the stigma associated with their illness is itself a health...
Gut microbiota of larvae has an impact on mosquito’s ability to transmit human…
Credit: © Institut Pasteur Mosquitoes are holometabolous insects (i.e. organisms that go through a complete metamorphosis). As such, they occupy two main habitats during their...
Van Andel Research Institute’s Hui Shen receives ovarian cancer research award
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Nov. 18, 2015)–The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (OCRF) yesterday announced that Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) Assistant Professor Hui Shen, Ph.D., has...
Sequencing poisonous mushrooms to potentially create medicine
Credit: By G.L. Kohuth EAST LANSING, Mich. – A team of Michigan State University scientists has genetically sequenced two species of poisonous mushrooms, discovering that...
Oregon scientists link signaling network to heart valve defects
EUGENE, Ore. — May 5, 2016 — A cell-to-cell signaling network that serves as a developmental timer could provide a framework for better understanding the...