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(University of Lincoln) Research by scientists into why some bacteria have different shapes has found that a curved shape can make it easier to find food. Computer simulations were used to compare the swimming of differe...

(Kumamoto University) The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis states that the nutritional environment in early life makes people susceptible to lifestyle-related diseases, such as obesity, diab...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Racial residential segregation is the predominant factor that explains why some cities have greater racial disparities in fatal police shootings than others, according to a new stud...

(City of Hope) A special blood test may one day predict if a newly diagnosed breast cancer patient will likely relapse years later. 'This is the first success linking a solid tumor with blood biomarkers -- an indicator o...

(Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (F.S.P.)) A new study published in Circulation Research shows that loss of cardiac expression of SRSF3 leads to a critical reduction in the expression of ge...

(Case Western Reserve University) By combining two well-established antibiotics for the first time, a scientific team led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center...

(The Hastings Center) For the last quarter century, researchers have been asking whether genetic information might have negative psychosocial effects. Anxiety, depression, disrupted relationships, and heightened stigmati...

(European Society of Cardiology) The rapid evolution of digital technology and its impact on the prevention and treatment of heart disease is the subject of a new digital summit organised by the European Society of Cardi...

(Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH)) Predicting the impact of DNA sequence variants is important for sorting disease-associated variants (DVs) from neutral variants. Korean researchers at Pohang Universi...

(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) A new Tel Aviv University study reveals a genetic system in mammals that enables two animals to mate and produce only females. A similar system based on identical principles woul...

(American Geriatrics Society) The number of daily hours of care people need after a hip fracture has not been well studied. To learn more, researchers designed a study to better understand how older adults fare after suf...

(Ruhr-University Bochum) The brain appears to implement a GPS system for spatial navigation; however, it is not yet fully understood how it works. In the journal Science Advances, researchers now suggest that rhythmic fl...

(University of New South Wales) A UNSW psychology experiment has shown why it can be so hard to direct our attention away from cues that might lead to behavior we'd like to avoid, like drinking alcohol and eating unhealt...

(DZNE - German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases) The risk of developing Alzheimer's disease increases with age. Susanne Wegmann of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) in Berlin and US colleagues ...

(University of Toronto) Researchers at the University of Toronto have uncovered an immune mechanism by which host cells combat bacterial infection, and at the same time found that a protein crucial to that process can se...

(International & American Associations for Dental Research) While the global epidemic of dental caries that began about 140 years ago was very largely caused by the rise in sugar consumption, the more recent decline in c...

(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) Study: Women who knew their BRCA+ status were diagnosed with earlier stage breast cancer, needed less chemotherapy, less extensive surgery, and had greater overall 5-year ...

(Duke University) Numerous studies show that the legacy of hardship can be passed from one generation to the next. The good news is that resilience can cross generations too. A worm study found that offspring of mothers ...

(Washington State University) New WSU research shows people can be taught coping mechanisms to avoid negative responses to boring situations.

(American Heart Association) Microvascular disease, a disorder of very small blood vessels, may increase the risk of leg amputation independent of other blood vessel conditions and regardless of the location of the micro...

(University of California - Santa Barbara) Postdoctoral researcher Caitlin Taylor wins the 2019 Harvey L. Karp Discovery Award

(West Virginia University) Do the nutritional supplements people take or the diets they adhere to actually protect them against cardiovascular problems and death? Maybe not, suggests a new umbrella review of meta-analyse...