Study: To prevent collapse of tropical forests, protect their shape
Credit: Laurent Hebert-Dufresne Tropical forests have been called the lungs of the planet. They soak up vast quantities of carbon ...
Month: March 2018
A statement about the publication describing genome sequencing of the Atacama skeleton
March 30, 2018 -- Genome Research recently published a paper (Bhattacharya et al. 2018) describing the whole-genome sequencing of the ...
NSF grant awarded for research on US natural disaster response and recovery partnerships
Credit: UT Arlington Last year, 16 U.S. natural disasters caused 362 deaths and a record $306 billion in damages. Hurricanes ...
Stanford researchers probe the complex nature of concussion
It seems simple enough: Taking a hard hit to the head can give you a concussion. But, Stanford researchers report ...
Monash discovery uncovers clue to disarm gonorrhea superbug
Credit: Monash University Every year, more than 100 million people worldwide develop the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhoea, with health consequences ...
Gut microbes could help better predict risk of hospitalization for patients with cirrhosis
Credit: VCU The gut microbiome -- a collection of bacteria and other microbes in the gut -- could be a ...
Cracking eggshell nanostructure
Credit: Professor Marc McKee, McGill University How is it that fertilized chicken eggs manage to resist fracture from the outside, ...
Bioinspired slick method improves water harvesting
Credit: University of Texas at Dallas By learning how water is collected by living organisms, including rice leaves and pitcher ...
Butterflies of the soul
Modern neuroscience, for all its complexity, can trace its roots directly to a series of pen-and-paper sketches rendered by Nobel ...
Federal officials urged to increase perinatal depression treatment in minority women
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Despite Latinas' and African-American women's increased risks of perinatal depression and ...
Optimistic Latinos have healthier hearts, study finds
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Latinos who are the most optimistic are more likely to have ...
New study finds world’s largest desert, the Sahara, has grown by 10 percent since 1920
Credit: Luca Galuzzi The Sahara Desert has expanded by about 10 percent since 1920, according to a new study by ...
Linking teen driving behaviors to ADHD, other mental health factors
Teenage drivers ages 16 to 19 are three times more likely to get into fatal accidents than their older counterparts. ...
Basking sharks gather in large groups off northeast US coast
Groups of basking sharks ranging from as few as 30 to nearly 1,400 individual animals have been observed aggregating in ...
Can a Mediterranean diet pattern slow aging?
A series of six articles appearing in the March issue of The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and ...
Tufts CTSI and The Jackson Laboratory announce research and training collaboration
Leaders from Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) today announced a new five-year collaboration ...
Adult-onset neurodegeneration has roots in early development
The disease mechanism for adult-onset progressive degenerative diseases begins much earlier than previously thought, according to a Northwestern Medicine study ...
Inherent feminizing effect of germ cells: New insights into sex determination
Credit: © Toshiya Nishimura Nagoya University-led study shows for the first time germ cells have an inherent property to feminize ...
Proposed border wall will harm Texas plants and animals, scientists say
Credit: Andrew Morffew In the latest peer-reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, ...
Penn Medicine Hospitals named ‘leaders in LGBT healthcare equality’
March 29, 2018 -PHILADELPHIA - The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Hospital, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and Chester ...
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Looking beyond microplastics, Oregon State researchers find that cotton and synthetic microfibers impact behavior and growth of aquatic organisms
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Face masks cut distance airborne pathogens could travel in half, new study finds
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Why lung cancer doesn’t respond well to immunotherapy
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Study presents novel therapeutic target for treatment of sepsis
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Discovery of new ice may change understanding of water
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Statistics remove bias from debate about how well mouse models mimic human disease