Corticosteroids, the main treatment for asthma, may worsen the disease in this group of patients,…
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Gene that could play key role in depression identified
Depression affects more than 300 million people annually. Now, a new study has pinpointed how…
Late teen years are key period for bone growth
The late adolescent years are an important period for gaining bone mineral, even after a…
Humpback whales: Calving ground loyalty drives population differences, study finds
Scientists conducting the first circum-global assessment of mitochondrial DNA variation in the Southern Hemisphere’s humpback…
Psychological effect against pushing and shoving
A large crowd of people at the entrance of concert or sport venues can easily…
Your hands may reveal the struggle to maintain self-control
It takes just a few seconds to choose a cookie over an apple and wreck…
Falling sea level caused volcanoes to overflow
During the transition to the last ice age approximately 80,000 years ago global temperature declined,…
New molecular scissors act like a GPS to improve genome editing
Researchers have discovered how Cpf1, a new molecular scissors unzip and cleave DNA. This member…
Undersea life holds promise for killing tuberculosis
A potential new weapon in the fight against tuberculosis has been discovered by researchers, and…
Into the quantum world with a tennis racket
Quantum technology is seen as an important future-oriented technology: smaller, faster and with higher performance…