Science

How do painful fibroids grow?

Insights into how uterine tumors grow could give hope to millions of women who deal with painful fibroids. Nearly 8…

2 years ago

Location, location, location: The hidden power of intracellular neighborhoods

Back in 2018, the lab of Christine Mayr, MD, PhD, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) introduced the world…

2 years ago

Two types of CBT are equally effective in the treatment of fibromyalgia

There does not appear to be any profound differences between so-called exposure-based CBT and traditional CBT in the treatment of…

2 years ago

New type of antibody shows promise against multiple forms of flu virus

Researchers have identified a previously unrecognized class of antibodies -- immune system proteins that protect against disease -- that appear…

2 years ago

Sniffing women’s tears reduces aggressive behavior in men, researchers report

New research, publishing December 21 in the open access journal in PLOS Biology, shows that tears from women contain chemicals…

2 years ago

New reptile on the block: A new iguana species discovered in China

A new iguana joins Asia's rich reptile fauna, officially described as new to science in the open-access journal ZooKeys. "From…

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First high mountain settlers at the start of the Neolithic already engaged in other livestock activities apart from transhumance

An archaeological find in the Huescan Pyrenees allowed researchers to identify for the first time livestock management strategies and feeding…

2 years ago

A carbon-lite atmosphere could be a sign of water and life on other terrestrial planets

Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere say that astronomers' best chance of finding liquid water, and even…

2 years ago

Insects already had a variety of defense strategies in the Cretaceous

Analyses of amber show that insect larvae were already using a wide variety of tactics to protect themselves from predators…

2 years ago

New tool unifies single-cell data

A new methodology that allows for the categorisation and organisation of single-cell data has been launched. It can be used…

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