Elderly women should take in more vitamin D than previously recommended during the winter months,…
Month: November 2015
Male, female mice respond differently to inflammation
New research shows that male and female mice respond differently to inflammation at the cellular…
Swedish diagnostic method for Alzheimer’s becomes international standard
Researchers have developed a reference method for standardized measurements that diagnose Alzheimer’s disease decades before…
Northwest’s next big earthquake: Source mapped
The Cascadia Initiative deployed 70 seabed seismometers at 120 sites covering the entire Juan de…
Calcium-48’s ‘neutron skin’ thinner than previously thought
Scientists used America’s most powerful supercomputer, Titan, to compute the neutron distribution and related observables…
Tissue cartography
Today’s state-of-the-art optical microscopes produce voluminous three-dimensional data sets that are difficult to analyze. Now,…
Off-label prescription drug use and adverse drug events
Off-label use of prescription drugs was associated with adverse drug events in a study of…
Does cheering affect the outcome of college hockey games?
We all love belting our lungs out at sporting event, hurling insults and encouragements in…
Teen sex talks with parents, especially moms, associated with safer sex
Risky sexual behavior among adolescents is a serious public health problem because of the risk…
Pineapple genome offers insight into photosynthesis in drought-tolerant plants
By sequencing its genome, scientists are homing in on the genes and genetic pathways that…