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New low-cost water source – completely passive solar-powered desalination system
A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in China could provide more than 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water...
Simple fat droplets as key regulators in the complex process of metabolism
In suspense novels, the most unassuming character sometimes turns out to be a mastermind, influencing events without attracting attention.
That same storyline may be...
Hand washing can slow down the spread of infectious diseases
A new study estimates that improving the rates of handwashing by travelers passing through just 10 of the world's leading airports could significantly reduce...
Hippocampus – the neurons involved in Pavlovian learning become more synchronized when a...
The phrase “Pavlov’s dogs” has long evoked images of bells, food and salivating dogs.
Even though this tried-and-true model of repetitive patterns mimics a...
Chromothripsis events are common across many types of cancer
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and EMBL-EBI have carried out the largest analysis across cancer types of the newly discovered mutational phenomenon chromothripsis.
This...
Researchers find a link between loss of the smallest blood vessels in muscle and...
Many health conditions - ranging from disease of particular organs such as heart and lungs, widespread metabolic issues such as diabetes, or following trauma...
Gluten and casein-free diets as a therapeutic approach in autism spectrum disorders have no...
A study by researchers from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Granada (UGR) has analyzed the effects of a gluten-free diet and...
Novelty directly activates the dopamine system and enhances associative learning
Brain scientists led by Sebastian Haesler (NERF, empowered by IMEC, KU Leuven and VIB) have identified a causal mechanism of how novel stimuli promote...
Activating group 2 innate lymphoid cells in aging brains helps improve memory
Researchers at Albany Medical College in New York have discovered that a specific type of immune cell accumulates in older brains, and that activating...
Reducing dietary levels of methionine can slow the onset and progression of inflammatory and...
Significantly reducing dietary levels of the amino acid methionine could slow onset and progression of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders such as multiple sclerosis in...
General anesthetic during a cesarean section increase risk of developing postpartum depression
A new study shows that having general anesthesia in cesarean delivery is linked with significantly increased odds of severe postpartum depression requiring hospitalization, thoughts...
Six proteins can be used to assess a risk of developing cerebral small vessel...
A UCLA-led study has found that levels of six proteins in the blood can be used to gauge a person’s risk for cerebral small...
Children start to show altruistic behaviors as early as 19 months of age
Altruistic helping — the act of giving away something desirable, even at a cost to oneself – is perhaps no more evident than when...
Dopamine may play a role in activating immune cells to migrate in the early...
Researchers led by biologists at Tufts University have discovered that the brains of developing embryos provide signals to a nascent immune system that help...
Researchers has developed a medicated patch for treating melanoma
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has developed a medicated patch that can deliver immune checkpoint inhibitors and...
