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(University of Münster) So-called vicinal aminoalcohols are high-quality organic compounds that are found in many everyday products. However, their production is difficult. In their recent study published in the journal...

(Northern Arizona University) Computational systems biologist Richard Posner, a professor in Northern Arizona University's Department of Biological Sciences, has received a $1.4 million renewal grant from the National In...

New studies are set to explore how gene expression alters the brain's response to drug abuse, and to screen for genes that could help brain cells withstand Parkinson's disease.

People who frequently travel more than 75 miles from home report being 7% happier than those who travel infrequently, or who don't travel at all.

Researchers reveal the role hundreds of miRNAs appear to play in modulating circadian rhythm.

Researchers have been trying to figure out what regulates molecular circadian clocks, in search of new insights into diseases like Alzheimer's, cancer and diabetes. Until now, that research has focused on what is known a...

Study reports brain tumors may arise when damaged brain tissue does not heal correctly. Researchers say some glioblastoma form when the normal healing process gets derailed by mutations. This process could begin many yea...

Polarons are fleeting distortions in a material's atomic lattice that form around a moving electron in a few trillionths of a second, then quickly disappear. As ephemeral as they are, they affect a material's behavior, a...

Researchers found that focusing on diversion -- instead of detention -- yields positive results for youth with behavioral health issues.

Scientists have long been aware of the dangerous overuse of antibiotics and the increasing number of antibiotic-resistant microbes that have resulted. While over-prescription of antibiotics for medicinal use has unsettli...

As someone whose job it is to help people understand and appreciate physics, I absolutely hatethe way most people talk about Isaac Newton and how he developed his theory of gravity. It's not the apple bit that I have a p...

A research study has found that in pregnancy, while the T cell response to a fetus becomes tolerant to allow for successful pregnancy, the part of the immune system that produces antibodies (known as the humoral response...

Researchers who profiled more than 45,000 individual cells from patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC), a specific form of metastatic gastric cancer, defined the extensive cellular heterogeneity and identified two ...

A new probe of the humble electron may provide insight into the forces at work inside the heart of matter. Now, the MOLLER experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is o...

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers from the B CUBE--Center for Molecular Bioengineering at TU Dresden and European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble describe, for the first time, that...

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Researchers have found that a few organisms in the gut microbiome play a key role in type 2 diabetes, opening the door to possible probiotic treatments for a serious metabolic disease affecting roughly one in 10 American...

Researchers are investigating whether inflammation in the body, a side effect of ADT, contributes to these symptoms in prostate cancer patients. They pinpoint a specific inflammation marker that is associated with increa...

By far the largest of its kind in humans, the study confirms and expands the health benefits of brown fat suggested by previous research.

The odd, wavy pattern that results from viewing certain phone or computer screens through polarized glasses has led researchers to take a step toward thinner, lighter-weight lenses. Called moiré, the pattern is made by ...

Researchers demonstrate a new technique for suppressing back reflections of light--better signal quality for sensing and information technology.