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Cell reprogramming does not happen exactly as we thought. In the pages of the journal Science, a team from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre...

Researchers discover most winter boots are too slippery to walk safely on icy surfaces

Credit: UHN (TORONTO, Canada - Nov. 24, 2016) - A team of researchers from the iDAPT labs at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-University Health Network are dedicated...

Endangered Australasian marsupials are ancient survivors of climate change

Credit: Michael Westerman In a new paper, published in Scientific Reports, an international team of researchers has analysed fossils and DNA from living and recently...

Macrophage-dependent IL-1β production induces cardiac arrhythmias in diabetic mice

One of the most serious complications of diabetes, heart arrhythmias, is now on its way to be prevented and combated. Researchers from the Federal University...

First steps to neutralizing Zika

Credit: Victor Kostyuchenko, Duke-NUS Medical School As Zika spreads throughout the world, the call for rapid development of therapeutics to treat Zika rings loud and...

A new perovskite could lead the next generation of data storage

Credit: László Forró/EPFL EPFL scientists have developed a new perovskite material with unique properties that can be used to build next-generation hard drives. As we...

In highly lethal type of leukemia, cancer gene predicts treatment response

Credit: Washington University Patients with the most lethal form of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) - based on genetic profiles of their cancers - typically survive...

Study finds link between surgery and Guillain-Barré syndrome

(American Academy of Neurology) A new study suggests that having surgery may be linked to developing Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) for people with cancer or autoimmune...

Going beyond genetics yields clues to challenging childhood brain cancer

Credit: University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- Cancer is often seen as a disease of genetic changes. But one type of childhood...

Study suggests that parental health behaviors may influence children’s sleep

DARIEN, IL - A new study indicates that children's sleep duration may be influenced by parental sleep duration and confidence, which suggests that efforts to...

Greater job satisfaction for transgender employees

Transgender individuals in the workplace can sometimes feel stigmatized, either through the actions and attitudes of their coworkers, or through their own fears of being...

Internet of Things (IoT) will demand a step-change in search solutions

Credit: University of Surrey Experts in next generation communications outline how internet search mechanisms will need to change to support the Internet of Things (IoT)...

Researchers develop soft, microfluidic ‘lab on the skin’ for sweat analysis

A Northwestern University research team has developed a first-of-its-kind soft, flexible microfluidic device that easily adheres to the skin and measures the wearer's sweat to...

Biologist awarded diabetes research prize for studies of fat cells

Credit: Charles LeDuc/Columbia University Medical Center NEW YORK, NY (November 23, 2016)--Columbia University has awarded the 2016 Naomi Berrie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Diabetes...

Jean-Claude Kieffer and François Légaré honored by the Royal Society of Canada