Announcing the BioOne Ambassador award winners
WASHINGTON, DC - July 31, 2018 : BioOne honors five early career authors in three countries, who best communicate their ...
Month: July 2018
Pungent-tasting substance in ginger reduces bad breath
The pungent compound 6-gingerol, a constituent of ginger, stimulates an enzyme contained in saliva - an enzyme which breaks down ...
Soccer heading worse for women’s brains than for men’s
Credit: Todd Rubin, M.S./Albert Einstein College of Medicine July 31, 2018--(Bronx, NY)--Women's brains are much more vulnerable than men's to ...
Hate speech from women is judged harsher than that from men
Women who make hateful remarks on social media are likely to be judged more severely than men who make the ...
Engaging with interactive media may be a sequence of actions, assessments
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The way people engage with interactive media is usually portrayed as a single act -- users ...
Scientists uncover new facts concerning working memory in children
Researchers from the Higher School of Economics conducted a meta-analysis by compiling data across 17 neuroimaging studies on working memory ...
The tipping point: Service sector employees are more susceptible to mental health issues
Credit: OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff Approximately 102 million Americans work in the service industry, according to the Pew Research Center, filling critical ...
Mapping of magnetic particles in the human brain
Many living organisms, such as migratory birds, are thought to possess a magnetotactic sense, which enables them to respond to ...
Predicting heart attack, stroke risk just got easier
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - July 30, 2018 - A team of researchers led by cardiologists at UT Southwestern Medical ...
Chinese researchers further develop adenine base editing system
Two research teams from East China Normal University and Sun Yat-Sen University in China have developed and improved the ABE ...
Single-cell RNA profiling
The human body is made up of on the order of 13 billion cells - and each of them has ...
Creating a (synthetic) song from a zebra finch’s muscle
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 31, 2018 -- Birds create songs by moving muscles in their vocal organs to vibrate air passing ...
Microbes in the Hong Kong subway system mix together by evening rush hour
Credit: Gianni Panagiotou Every day, the hundred-mile-long Hong Kong subway system serves nearly five million people commuting from as far ...
Long-term study of a boy’s lobectomy offers rare glimpse of plasticity in action
The boy suffered his first epileptic seizure at age four. Doctors tried medication and other treatments to control the seizures--the ...
Case study: Child’s lobectomy reveals brain’s ability to reorganize its visual system
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University A new study led by Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists provides the first evidence of how the ...
Dental plaque is no match for catalytic nanoparticles
Combine a diet high in sugar with poor oral hygiene habits and dental cavities, or caries, will likely result. The ...
New research challenges common assumptions about people who use food shelves
MINNEAPOLIS, MN- July 31, 2018 - The first-ever statewide survey of Minnesota food-shelf users uncovered important information about a population ...
£2 Million for sepsis research in Africa
(Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) LSTM is to lead a new multinational project on sepsis following a £2 million award ...
Real-time foot-and-mouth strategy to better fight disease
New real-time strategy for future foot-and-mouth outbreaks finds that focusing on surveillance and vaccination is most effective method to quickly ...
Astronomers assemble ‘light-fingerprints’ to unveil mysteries of the cosmos
ITHACA, N.Y. - Earthbound detectives rely on fingerprints to solve their cases; now astronomers can do the same, using "light-fingerprints" ...
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Healthy men who have vaginal sex have a distinct urethral microbiome
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The “Stonehenge calendar” shown to be a modern construct
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Researchers discover a way to fight the aging process and cancer development
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Can artificial intelligence predict spatiotemporal distribution of dengue fever outbreaks with remote sensing data? New study finds answers
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Promoting healthy longevity should start young: pregnancy complications lift women’s risk of mortality in the next 50 years
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Astrophysicists show how to “weigh” galaxy clusters with artificial intelligence