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Climate change threatens genetic diversity, future of world's caribou Caribou in southern and eastern Canada may disappear from most of their current range in 60 years if climate change takes the toll on their habitat that scientists predict in a paper appearing ...
Read the releaseTiming is everything in new nanotechnology for medicine, security and research WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers working to advance imaging useful to medicine and security are capitalizing on the same phenomenon behind the lingering "ghost" image that appeared ...
Read the releasePUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 16-Dec-2013 [ | E-mail ] var addthis_pub="eurekalert"; var addthis_options = "favorites, delicious, digg, facebook, twitter, google, newsvine, reddit, slashdot, stumbleupon, buzz, more" Share Contact: Cathy Yarbrough cyarbrough@ascb.org 858-243-1814 John Fleischman jfleischman@ascb.org American Society for Cell Biology Nuclei in wrong place may be cause, not result, of inherited muscle diseases Sunday Driver gene implicated as necessary regulator of nuclear positioning in muscle tissue cells Incorrectly positioned nuclei ...
Read the releaseMothers see their youngest as shorter than they are Many parents say when their second child is born that their first child suddenly appears to have grown overnight. Now, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on December 16 have an explanation: until ...
Read the releaseJCI early table of contents for Dec. 16, 2013 A mouse model to evaluate potential age-promoting compounds While there are well-established mouse models to identify cancer-causing agents, similar models are not available to readily test and identify age-promoting ...
Read the releaseA mouse model to evaluate potential age-promoting compounds While there are well-established mouse models to identify cancer-causing agents, similar models are not available to readily test and identify age-promoting agents. Recently, a mouse strain ...
Read the releaseHybrid protein deregulates complement in dense deposit disease Dense deposit disease is a rare congenital disorder that is associated with complement dysfunction and often results in end stage renal disease within 10 years of the initial diagnosis. A ...
Read the releaseFruit fly studies help scientists swat aggressive relapsing leukemia CINCINNATI – Using genetic information initially uncovered in fruit fly studies, scientists have developed a unique therapeutic strategy that stops an aggressive and ...
Read the releaseAging cells unravel their DNA Senescent cells, which are metabolically active but no longer capable of dividing, contribute to aging, and senescence is a key mechanism for preventing the spread of cancer cells. A study in The Journal of Cell Biology ...
Read the releaseTweaking energy consumption to combat muscle wasting and obesity Using a new technique to evaluate working muscles in mice, researchers have uncovered physiological mechanisms that could lead to new strategies for combating metabolism-related disorders ...
Read the releaseGuidelines 2.0: New guideline development checklist for health researchers Researchers hope that a comprehensive new checklist will help guideline developers/organizations around the world create and implement better recommendations for health ...
Read the releasePersonalized vaccine for most lethal type of brain tumor shows promise CHICAGO – Patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) treated with an experimental vaccine made from the patient's own resected tumor tissue showed an improved survival compared ...
Read the releaseGene variant exacerbates inflammatory arthritis in mice Study reveals new mechanism for arthritis progression (SALT LAKE CITY)—University of Utah researchers have discovered a naturally occurring genetic variation in mice that predisposes carriers toward ...
Read the releaseDo degrading TV portrayals of women cause gender harassment? A new study in Psychology of Women Quarterly considers whether objectifying women in television and harassment are causally linked. Researchers Silvia Galdi, Anne Maass, and Mara Cadinu designed two ...
Read the release5 effective parenting programs to reduce problem behaviors in children All parents want what's best for their children. But not every parent knows how to provide their child with the tools to be successful, or how to help them avoid the biggest adolescent behavior ...
Read the releaseLinking social science and ecology to solve the world's environmental problems Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS) at James Cook University are engaging social science ...
Read the releaseNTU scientists discover potential vaccine for malaria Scientists from Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have discovered a key process during the invasion of the blood cell by the Malaria parasite, and more importantly, found a way to block ...
Read the releaseAlzheimer substance may be the nanomaterial of tomorrow Amyloid protein causes diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. But amyloid also carries unique characteristics that may lead to the development of new composite ...
Read the releaseNanoparticles and their orbital positions Physicists have developed a "planet-satellite model" to precisely connect and arrange nanoparticles in three-dimensional structures. Inspired by the photosystems of plants and algae, these artificial nanoassemblies ...
Read the releaseVTT: Biorefinery business could put the South Australian forest industry back on the growth track VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, at the request of the South Australian State Government, studied the condition of the forest sector ...
Read the releaseBrain waves encode information as time signals How information is processed and encoded in the brain is a central question in neuroscience, as it is essential for high cognitive function such as learning and memory. Theta-gamma ...
Read the releaseNanofriction on the tip of the microscope A new research paper from SISSA published in Nature Materials Atomic force microscopes are able to reproduce spectacular images, at the scale of single atoms. This is made possible by the ...
Read the releaseFamilies urged to get to the heart of their medical histories this Christmas Doctors are encouraging people to take advantage of Christmas gatherings with relatives to discuss family medical histories to help tackle ill-health. The call from clinical ...
Read the releaseGolden trap: Highly sensitive system to detect individual molecules Medical diagnostics is searching for substances capable of documenting early on whether a serious disease is developing or what its course will be. In many cases, the treacherous ...
Read the releaseUltrafast heating of water -- This pot boils faster than you can watch it Novel method opens new paths for experiments with heated samples of biological relevance Scientists from the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science have devised a novel ...
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