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Biologist Treks Across Southwestern China to Answer the “Killer Mushroom” Question

His findings, published online in Applied and Environmental Biology, shattered a myth started by a 2010 article in the journal Science, claiming the Trogia…

Business and Finance

Study Reveals What Makes Nonprofits Special

Nonprofit leaders believe that stakeholders in government, the media, and the general public do not understand these values of the nonprofit sector—a situation…

Life & Chemistry

Microscopic Indigestion Caught in the Act

Microbial evolutionary theory suggests that about a billion years ago, microbes ingested other organisms with photosynthetic properties and used those…

Physics & Astronomy

Searching for the Best Black Hole Recipe

They are tackling this problem by studying the number of black holes in galaxies with different compositions. One of these galaxies, the ring galaxy NGC 922,…

Life & Chemistry

Global Spread of Clostridium Difficile: Key Research Insights

Researchers show that the global epidemic of Clostridium difficile 027/NAP1/BI in the early to mid-2000s was caused by the spread of two different but highly…

Health & Medicine

Second-Hand Smoke Linked to Higher Meningococcal Disease Risk

Invasive meningococcal disease, a major cause of bacterial meningitis, can also cause severe illness when bacteria, such as Neisseria meningitidi, invade the…

Health & Medicine

Engineered T Cell Therapy Keeps Leukemia Patients In Remission

Nine of twelve leukemia patients who received infusions of their own T cells after the cells had been genetically engineered to attack the patients' tumors…

Studies and Analyses

Reduced Intensity Regimen Improves Outcomes for Older AML Patients

Typically, the prognosis for older AML patients is poor. Even in patients who achieve complete remission through chemotherapy, survival rates remain low due to…

Life & Chemistry

Wheat Quality Declines as Carbon Dioxide Levels Rise

Elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide stimulate the photosynthesis and growth of most plants. However, unless plants increase their uptake of nutrients…

Health & Medicine

Working together against Alzheimer‘s, Parkinson‘s and dementia

Joint press release DZNE / HZI“Despite a number of studies in the past we do not yet know what the role of infections is in favouring neurodegenerative disease…

Life & Chemistry

Steroid Hormone Receptor’s Role in Immune System Regulation

The finding could help guide drug discovery efforts aimed at finding new anti-inflammatory drugs with fewer side effects.The results are scheduled for…

Health & Medicine

New Drug Shows Promise for High-Risk Leukemia Patients

A new drug for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) marked by a specific type of genetic mutation has shown surprising promise in a Phase II clinical…

Studies and Analyses

Oxygen Deprivation Before Birth Linked to ADHD in New Study

The population-based study examines the association between IHC and ADHD. Researchers examined the electronic health records of nearly 82,000 children ages 5…

Studies and Analyses

Key Strategies for Weight Loss Maintenance in Older Women

When you're postmenopausal and overweight, losing weight is a good thing, but gaining back just a few pounds may actually be detrimental to your cardiovascular…

Life & Chemistry

Measuring the Nanoworld: DNA Rulers in Light Microscopy

For only a few years, it has been possible to resolve biological structures down to the molecular scale with light microscopy, termed super-resolution…

Life & Chemistry

New Metal Discovery Enhances Double Bond Strength in Chemistry

Professor Holger Braunschweig and his team come up with stunning new discoveries in chemistry with great regularity. This time, the Würzburg researchers turn…

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