Study supports 3-D MRI heart imaging to improve treatment of atrial fibrillation
SALT LAKE CITY—A University of Utah-led study for treatment of patients with atrial fibrillation (A-fib) provides ...
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A short stay in darkness may heal hearing woes
Call it the Ray Charles Effect: a young child who is blind develops a keen ability to hear things that others cannot. Researchers have long ...
Read the releaseSimulated blindness can help revive hearing, researchers find
Minimizing a person's sight for as little as a week may help improve the brain's ability to process hearing, neuroscientists have found. Hey-Kyoung Lee, an associate professor of neuroscience and researcher ...
Read the releaseThe anatomy of an asteroid
Using very precise ground-based observations, Stephen Lowry (University of Kent, UK) and colleagues have measured the speed at which the near-Earth asteroid (25143) Itokawa spins and how that spin rate is changing over time. They have combined these delicate ...
Read the releasePolicymakers and scientists agree on top research questions
Natural resource managers, policymakers and their advisers, and scientists ...
Read the releaseVanadium dioxide research opens door to new, multifunctional spintronic smart sensors
Research from a team led by North Carolina State University is opening the door to smarter sensors by integrating the smart material vanadium dioxide onto a silicon chip ...
Read the releaseWorld temperature records available via Google Earth
Climate researchers at the University of East Anglia have made the world's temperature records available via Google Earth. The Climatic Research Unit Temperature Version 4 (CRUTEM4) land-surface air temperature ...
Read the releaseTime is of the essence
New findings in mice suggest that merely changing meal times could have a significant effect on the levels of triglycerides in the liver. The results of this Weizmann Institute of Science study, recently published in Cell Metabolism, ...
Read the releaseResearchers discover rare new species of deep-diving whale
Researchers have identified a new species of mysterious beaked whale based on the study of seven animals stranded on remote tropical islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans over the past ...
Read the releaseAttractive professional cyclists are faster
In a range of species, females show clear preferences when it comes to the choice of their partner – they decide on the basis of external features like antler size or plumage coloration whether a male will be a good ...
Read the releaseNational poll shows public divided on genetic testing to predict cancer risk
A national poll from the University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute shows 34 percent of respondents would ...
Read the release'False memories' -- the hidden side of our good memory
Justice blindly trusts human memory. Every year throughout the world hundreds of thousands of court cases are heard based solely on the testimony of somebody who swears that they are reproducing exactly an ...
Read the releasePeople who know their 'heart age' make greater improvements to their heart health
Risk scores for diseases such as CVD are usually presented as the percent chance of contracting the disease within the next ten years. The Heart Age Calculator, http://www.heartage.me, uses the same ...
Read the releaseDetection of Down syndrome during pregnancy improves for younger women
New figures from the National Down Syndrome Cytogenetic Register (NDSCR) based at Queen Mary University of London, reveal the proportion of Down syndrome cases diagnosed antenatally ...
Read the releaseWater supply availability 'to dominate US natural resource management'
Water supply is the most pressing environmental issue facing the United States according to a survey of policy makers and scientists revealed in a new publication in BioScience by researchers ...
Read the releaseTowards tailor-made adhesives
Tape, self-adhesive labels, Post-it notes and masking tape all contain soft adhesives. This makes them easy to remove—a process referred ...
Read the releaseGraphene 'sandwich' improves images of biomolecules
By sandwiching a biological molecule between sheets of graphene, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have obtained atomic-level images of the molecule in its natural watery environment. The ...
Read the releaseUncovering the drivers of honey bee colony declines and losses
NEW YORK – February 5, 2014 – EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization that focuses on local conservation and global ...
Read the releaseInnovative technique creates large skin flaps for full-face resurfacing
Philadelphia, Pa. (February 4, 2014) - Patients with massive ...
Read the releaseResearch results show new way for cholesterol treatment
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 5-Feb-2014 [ | E-mail ] var addthis_pub="eurekalert"; var addthis_options = "favorites, delicious, digg, facebook, twitter, google, newsvine, reddit, slashdot, stumbleupon, buzz, more" Share Contact: Simon Glerup sg@biokemi.au.dk 45-51-22-17-27 Aarhus University Research results show new way for cholesterol treatment A basic research project from Aarhus University now sheds new light on the pharmaceutical industry's new hope in the field of cholesterol treatment; the results show that there is apparently another and just as effective ...
Read the releaseInner workings of a cellular nanomotor revealed
Our cells produce thousands of proteins but more than one-third of these proteins can fulfill their function only after migrating to the outside of the cell. While it is known that protein migration occurs ...
Read the releaseSociable receptors: In pairs, in groups or in a crowd
This news release is available in German. When cells migrate in the body, for instance, ...
Read the releasePenn study reveals genetics impact risk of early menopause among some female smokers
PHILADELPHA - New research is lighting up yet another ...
Read the releaseFewer than half of women attend recommended doctors visits after childbirth
Medical associations widely recommend that women visit their obstetricians and primary care doctors shortly after giving ...
Read the releaseBrain development -- the pivotal role of the stem cell environment
This news release is available in German. Higher mammals, such as humans, ...
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