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#27 in our top science stories of 2019.

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At Sensors Expo 2019, Eduardo Montalvo, an application engineer from Coto Technology, explains a RedRock demo board with the different output responses provided by his company's sensors. RedRock's tunneling magnetoresist...

(Virginia Tech) Researchers receive a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how biomolecules fold and interact in an effort to inform better drug design for life-threatening diseases, e...

(American Academy of Neurology) For boxers and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters, is there a safe level of exposure to head trauma? A new study shows different effects in the brain for younger, current fighters compared ...

(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) There appears to be an unhealthy synergy between mental illness and prostate cancer, and researchers are working to dissect the relationship by first assembling the larg...

(Bentham Science Publishers) The new book series presents interesting reviews about infectious diseases responsible for epidemics around the world.

(PLOS) A recent study showed that being overweight or obese was a risk factor for cardiotoxicity in chemotherapy-treated patients with breast cancer, but it did not take into account related cardiac risk factors or other...

(Cornell University) People with restricted diets -- due to allergies, health issues or religious or cultural norms -- are more likely to feel lonely when they can't share in what others are eating, new Cornell Universit...

(University of Groningen) To disarm toxic substances, many organisms -- including humans -- possess enzymes called flavin-containing monooxygenases (FMOs). However, the protein is too unstable to study its structure in d...

(American Federation for Aging Research) The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and AFAR Research Grant for Junior Faculty provides an early career investigator with up to $100,000 for one- to two-years to support res...

(American Federation for Aging Research) This year, ten, one-year, $60,000 Fellowships have been awarded to support postdoctoral fellows who study basic research mechanisms of aging and/or translational findings that hav...

(Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology) A collaboration led by scientists at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Japan, has discovered that daily energy balance of Asian black bears exhibited ...

(University of California - San Francisco) The first rigorously controlled study of a 2016 California law that aimed to increase childhood vaccination rates by eliminating nonmedical exemptions has found the law worked a...

(European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Germany, have developed new methods to reveal the thre...

(University of California - San Diego) Spontaneous mutations in male sperm are linked to development of autism spectrum disorder. Researchers have created a way to measure mutations and estimate risk of ASD in future chi...

(American Federation for Aging Research) Administered by the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), the two-year Glenn Foundation for Medical Research Breakthroughs in Gerontology (BIG) award provides $300,000 fo...

(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) Immunologists from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have revealed two independent mechanisms driving self-defense molecules to trigger cell death.

(PLOS) California's elimination, in 2016, of non-medical vaccine exemptions from school entry requirements was associated with an estimated increase in vaccination coverage at state and county levels, according to a new ...

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A new prospective study based on data from the Women's Health Initiative found a potential inverse association between dietary magnesium and fatal coronary heart disease ...

(University of Connecticut) n the journal STEM CELLS, research group of Dr. Ivo Kalajzic, lead investigator and professor, presents a study with potential for new treatments to address the root cause of weak and brittle ...

(European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Researchers led by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg and the Center for Bioinformatics at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany, have developed ...