Prostate medicines linked to type 2 diabetes risk, study suggests
Men taking medicines to reduce the symptoms of prostate disease may be more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, a study suggests. Researchers say...
Stress-related disorders linked to heightened risk of cardiovascular disease
Stress-related disorders -- conditions triggered by a significant life event or trauma -- may be linked to a heightened risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD),...
Anesthesia sends neurons down the wrong path in unborn rat babies
A study provides new insight into why -- and when -- anesthesia during pregnancy harms unborn brains. Most research into prenatal exposure to anesthesia...
NASA’s landmark Twins Study reveals resilience of human body in space
Newly published research reveals some interesting, surprising and reassuring data about how one human body adapted to -- and recovered from -- the extreme...
Warm winds in autumn could strain Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf
New research shows that the Larsen C ice shelf -- the fourth largest ice shelf in Antarctica -- experienced an unusual spike in late...
Genome analysis shows the combined effect of many genes on cognitive traits
Individual differences in cognitive abilities in children and adolescents are partly reflected in variations in their DNA sequence, according to a new study.
CRISPR-Cas3 innovation holds promise for disease cures, advancing science
Scientists have used a new type of gene editing CRISPR system for the first time in human cells - a major advance in the...
Advanced virtual technology captures how coral reefs recover after bleaching
Researchers have used new imaging software to detect dramatic recovery after a bleaching event on the reefs surrounding remote Palmyra Atoll in the tropical...
New tunable nanomaterials possible due to flexible process invented by physicists
Physicists have developed a flexible process allowing the synthesis in a single flow of a wide range of novel nanomaterials with various morphologies, with...
Scientists capture a ‘snapshot’ of bacterial stress-response regulator’s ‘recycling truck’
Researchers have found that RssB -- a protein that specifically recognizes a critical stress-response master regulator in bacteria and delivers it to the recycling...