Firefighters may have an increased risk of prostate cancer due to on-the-job chemical exposures, according to new research from the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and University of Michigan in…
COVID-19 upended almost every aspect of daily life, including consumer and retailer behavior. However, it was not the first pandemic that changed how we shop.
Educational research has long lumped all people of color together when examining microaggressions perpetrated against them. A University of Kansas scholar has published an article that argues educational research should instead study anti…
The new policy arrives after years of deliberations by an expert panel and a charged public debate over whether COVID arose from an animal market or a laboratory in China.
College campuses across America - and in particular across the Ivy League - have erupted with antisemitic, pro-Hamas encampments and riots. These anti-American activities are not the peaceful protests on college campuses of the past. They…
In collaboration with University Hospital Basel, researchers from ETH are investigating the early stages of bladder cancer. Their findings show that future research should also focus on mechanical changes in tumor tissue.
First linked to mutations in the CHD7 gene in 2004, CHARGE syndrome is a rare genetic disorder occurring in approximately 1 in 8,500 to 15,000 births. According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), CHARGE syndrome is an acronym for…
(BPT) - Every 36 minutes a child in the United States is diagnosed with cancer. In fact, it’s the number one cause of death by disease in children in this country. With major treatment …
California lawmakers could soon clear a logjam that has held up studies related to addiction treatment, psychedelics or other federally restricted drugs.
Bereaved families who lost loved ones in the contaminated blood scandal say they have seen evidence that proves their relatives were being "used for research" without their knowledge and despite clinicians knowing the risks.
To this day, no one knows for certain what caused the liver and kidney disease that led to Ludwig van Beethoven's untimely death. However, a new letter to the editor in the journal Clinical Chemistry rules out one popular theory, showing…
While it's healthy to question what we see and hear in the media, those quick internet searches to fact-check news stories can unexpectedly backfire and lead people to believe false stories, according to the director of the University of…
In a study carried out by experts in child development at the University of York, researchers have found that pre-school children actively select, shape and create their own experiences to match their genetic tendencies.
New research shows that an enzyme called PARP1, is involved in repair of telomeres, and that impairing this process can lead to telomere shortening and genomic instability associated with cancer. The finding that PARP1 modifies DNA open up…
Sperm whales’ clicking communiques include context and combination structures that make their messaging more akin to language than previously known, according to a team of researchers at MIT.
ST. LOUIS, May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- US Strategic Metals ("USSM") and Missouri University of Science and Technology ("Missouri S&T") have signed a contract for USSM to support Missouri S&T's precursor cathode active material ("pCAM")…