Promoting healthy gut microbiota, the bacteria that live in the intestine, can help treat or…
Month: November 2014
Schizophrenia may be triggered by excess protein during brain development
A gene associated with schizophrenia plays a role in brain development and may help to…
Motor coordination issues in autism are caused by abnormal neural connections
Abnormal connections between neurons are the likely cause of motor coordination issues seen in autism…
Adult survivors of childhood eye cancer experience few cognitive or social setbacks
Adult survivors of retinoblastoma, a type of eye cancer that usually develops in early childhood,…
Universal health coverage for US military veterans within reach, but many still lack coverage
Over a million US military veterans lacked healthcare coverage in 2012, according to new estimates…
Mimics do not substitute for the ‘real thing’ for bomb-sniffing dogs
Canines trained on pseudo-explosives could not reliably identify the genuine article (and vice versa). When…
Damage caused by geothermal probes is rare
Soil settlements or upheavals and resulting cracks in monuments, floodings, or dried-up wells: Reports about…
Primates indispensable for regeneration of tropical forests
Primatologist and plant geneticists have studied the dispersal of tree seeds by New World primates….
Gas cloud in the galactic center is part of a larger gas streamer
Astronomers have presented new observations of the gas cloud G2 in the galactic center originally…
Bad news for kids: Parents do not defend their offspring at all cost, bird study shows
Do parents defend their offspring whenever necessary, and do self-sacrificing parents really exist? To answer…