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Credit: Troy Ghashghaei New research from North Carolina State University shows that neurons generated at different life stages in mice can impact aspects of their...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- An enzyme that converts the dietary carotenoid beta carotene into vitamin A in the body may...

In 2014, the number of deaths from opioid overdoses in the U.S. jumped to its highest level on record. The spike brought national attention to...

Credit: S. Dorbolo/University of Liege WASHINGTON, D.C., December 7, 2016 -- Resembling the Leidenfrost effect seen in rapidly boiling water droplets, a disk of ice...

LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 7th December, 2016 - Pain relief and other forms of supportive care for cancer patients are insufficient, researchers report at the ESMO ASIA 2016...

Credit: IASLC Vienna, Austria--December 7, 2016--Today's press briefing at the IASLC 17th World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) focused on clinical trials that advance the...

Credit: Public Domain Polyalcohols are widely used in the food industry, especially in candy and gum because they bring the sweet without the risk of...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) The quality of life of elderly myocardial infarction patients can be significantly improved without extra...

Relaxing with a joint around children is not very wise. Not only do youngsters inhale harmful secondary smoke in the process, but the psychoactive chemicals...

Credit: University of Huddersfield NO case of necrophilia has ever come before UK courts, although British awareness of the offence is high - and was...

Through a process called phytoremediation, researchers are using plants to clean up land contaminated with TNT, a toxic environmental pollutant and possible carcinogen. Now a...

(Ruhr-University Bochum) Seeing, smelling, tasting, regulation of blood pressure -- molecular switches are involved in all of these processes. The mechanism with which these proteins...

Credit: Springer Springer now offers its Springer Book Archives (SBA) in smaller year set packages. The new SBA packages are divided up into "eras," and...

Credit: Kerstin Thonhauser/Vetmeduni Vienna The urine of house mice, unlike humans, contains large amounts of proteins, which are mainly major urinary proteins or MUPs. These...

Researchers from a group led by ETH professor Martin Loessner discovered a few years ago that rod-shaped Listeria can become spherical. These L-forms differ fundamentally...