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27-May-2014 8:30 AM EDT
Why Are Girl Babies Winning in the Battle for Survival?
University of Adelaide

Sexual inequality between boys and girls starts as early as in the mother's womb – but how and why this occurs could be a key to preventing higher rates of preterm birth, stillbirth and neonatal death among boys.

Released: 27-May-2014 11:20 AM EDT
Texas Tech Professor: Food Prices Could Continue to Rise Through Summer
Texas Tech University

Texas Tech food expert Mindy Brashears discusses current food supply issues, prices.

   
20-May-2014 2:00 PM EDT
Smaller Accelerators for Particle Physics?
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

It took every inch of the Large Hadron Collider's 17-mile length to accelerate particles to energies high enough to discover the Higgs boson. Now, imagine an accelerator that could do the same thing in, say, the length of a football field. Or less. That is the promise of laser-plasma accelerators. Scientists have grappled with building these devices for two decades, and a new theoretical study predicts that this may be easier than previously thought.

23-May-2014 3:40 PM EDT
A Mechanism of How Biodiversity Arises
University of Massachusetts Amherst

A new study of how biodiversity arises shows how a mutation in a single gene in development can lead to different consequences not only in jaw shape, but how this leads to different feeding strategies. It is among the first to show how one genetic change influences trait development and function.

22-May-2014 1:30 PM EDT
Buried Fossil Soils Found to Be Awash in Carbon
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Soils that formed on the Earth’s surface thousands of years ago and that are now deeply buried features of vanished landscapes have been found to be rich in carbon, adding a new dimension to our planet’s carbon cycle.

Released: 23-May-2014 2:00 PM EDT
Poor Diet Before Pregnancy Is Linked with Preterm Birth
University of Adelaide

University of Adelaide research has for the first time confirmed that women who eat a poor diet before they become pregnant are around 50% more likely to have a preterm birth than those on a healthy diet.

Released: 23-May-2014 11:00 AM EDT
Failed Dwarf Galaxy Survives Galactic Collision Thanks to Full Dark-Matter Jacket
National Radio Astronomy Observatory

A high-velocity hydrogen cloud hurtling toward the Milky Way appears to be encased in a shell of dark matter, according to a new analysis of data from the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT).

21-May-2014 9:00 PM EDT
Ancient DNA Ends Aussie Claim to Kiwi Origins
University of Adelaide

Australia can no longer lay claim to the origins of the iconic New Zealand kiwi following University of Adelaide research published in the journal Science today showing the kiwi’s closest relative is not the emu as was previously thought.

Released: 21-May-2014 2:00 PM EDT
Panel of 11 Genes Predicts Alcoholism Risk, Gives New Insights Into Biology of the Disease
Indiana University

A group of 11 genes can successfully predict whether an individual is at increased risk of alcoholism, a research team from the United States and Germany reports

20-May-2014 3:00 PM EDT
Soil Bacteria May Provide Clues to Curbing Antibiotic Resistance
Washington University in St. Louis

Bacteria that naturally live in the soil have a vast collection of genes to fight off antibiotics, but they are much less likely to share these genes, a new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has revealed

   
20-May-2014 11:00 AM EDT
Mayo Clinic Researchers Say Molecule Linked to Aggressive Pancreatic Cancer Offers Potential Clinical Advances
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered an enzyme they say is tightly linked to how aggressive pancreatic cancer will be in a patient.

Released: 20-May-2014 4:00 PM EDT
Compound Reverses Symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease in Mice
Saint Louis University Medical Center

Research in an animal model at Saint Louis University supports the potential therapeutic value of an antisense compound to treat Alzheimer's disease.

19-May-2014 9:00 AM EDT
UVA Unlocks Pitch-Detection Secrets of the Inner Ear
University of Virginia Health System

The ability to discern pitch – to hear the difference between “cat,” “bat” and “hat,” for example – hinges on remarkable gradations in specialized cells within the inner ear. New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders has explained, for the first time, what controls these cells’ development and patterning – findings crucial to efforts to reverse hearing loss caused by age, loud sounds or other factors.

20-May-2014 9:30 AM EDT
New Lithium Battery Created in Japan
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

A team of researchers has created a new type of lithium ion conductor for future batteries that could be the basis for a whole new generation of solid-state batteries. It uses rock salt Lithium Borohydride (LiBH4), a well-known agent in organic chemistry laboratories that has been considered for batteries before, but up to now has only worked at high temperatures or pressures.

Released: 20-May-2014 11:00 AM EDT
Program to Reduce Behavior Problems Boosts Math, Reading Among Low-Income Kindergartners, First Graders
New York University

A program aimed at reducing behavior problems in order to boost academic achievement has improved performance in math and reading among low-income kindergartners and first graders, according to a study by researchers at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

16-May-2014 10:00 AM EDT
Study Suggests More Than Two-Thirds of Healthy Americans Are Infected with Human Papilloma Viruses
NYU Langone Health

In what is believed to be the largest and most detailed genetic analysis of its kind, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center and elsewhere have concluded that 69 percent of healthy American adults are infected with one or more of 109 strains of human papillomavirus (HPV).

Released: 19-May-2014 5:00 PM EDT
Analyzing Sun-Like Stars That Eat Earth-Like Planets
Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt astronomers have developed a model that estimates the effect that ingesting large amounts of the rocky material from which ‘terrestrial’ planets like Earth, Mars and Venus are made has on a star’s chemical composition and has used the model to analyze a pair of twin stars which both have their own planets.

Released: 19-May-2014 1:00 PM EDT
Leading Space Experts Chart Out Roadmap for Finding Life Beyond Earth
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

On Wednesday May 21, a panel of leading experts in astrophysics and astronomy will describe the scientific and technological roadmap for discovering habitable worlds among the stars. The panel, entitled "The Search for Life in the Universe," is part of the 30th Space Symposium to be held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, May 19 to 22.

Released: 19-May-2014 12:00 PM EDT
Optical Brain Scanner Goes Where Other Brain Scanners Can’t
Washington University in St. Louis

Scientists have advanced a brain-scanning technology that tracks what the brain is doing by shining dozens of tiny LED lights on the head. This avoids the radiation exposure and bulky magnets the others require.

Released: 19-May-2014 12:00 AM EDT
The Young Sperm, Poised for Greatness
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah

It was long assumed that the joining of egg and sperm launched a dramatic change in how and which genes were expressed. Instead, new research shows that totipotency is a step-wise process, manifesting as early as in precursors to sperm, called adult germline stem cells (AGSCs), which reside in the testes. The research was published online in the journal Cell Stem Cell.



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