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Medical Xpress / Running the numbers shows ivermectin could help beat malaria

When a stranger from Spain called Cassidy Rist in her first months at Virginia Tech, she almost didn't take the meeting. The caller was Carlos Chaccour, a physician at the University of Navarra who worked on global health ...

20 hours ago
Medical Xpress / 3D-printed trays help human gut organoids self-build nerves and mature twice as fast

Thanks to special 3D-printed scaffolding trays designed by experts at Cincinnati Children's, researchers can now produce larger versions of functional human gut organoids twice as fast as previous methods—and these organoids ...

19 hours ago
Phys.org / Social mammals live longer—but bigger groups don't add that many extra years

A new study, published in Ecology and Evolution, shows that social living is associated with longer lifespan, but also that the benefits of sociality level off once animals move beyond living in pairs.

22 hours ago
Tech Xplore / Unlocking soft robotics control with AI's cousin: Reservoir computing

Soft robotics—machines made of flexible, muscle-like materials—can bend and stretch in fluid ways that put the rigid robots of old sci-fi movies to shame. But the flexibility that lets them pick ripe tomatoes or navigate ...

22 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Sunscreen confusion puts more Americans at risk for Melanoma

Melanoma—the most serious form of skin cancer—doesn't just happen at the beach or in a tanning booth.

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Phys.org / Blue and fin whale sightings on the rise in the Southeast Atlantic

More than 40 years after the end of commercial whaling, new research reveals a recent increase in sightings of the world's two largest whale species in the southeastern Atlantic. The findings, published in the African Journal ...

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Medical Xpress / Common epilepsy drug disrupts early brain growth in human organoids after 30-day exposure

It is known that the antiepileptic drug valproate increases the risk of developmental disorders in unborn children. A study conducted by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and ...

20 hours ago
Phys.org / Asexual lizards, virgin births and clones—the all‑female species of the animal kingdom

It may sound too bizarre to be true, but the Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa), a fish that inhabits rivers, lakes, and swamps in Mexico and Texas, exists over much of its range in populations that are 100% female. In 1932, ...

23 hours ago
Medical Xpress / Ovarian cancer cells use stress hormone signaling to shut down immune system, research reveals

When activated in ovarian cancer cells, the receptor for the body's primary stress hormone alters the tumor environment in ways that blunt immune response, according to new research led by UT Southwestern Medical Center. ...

21 hours ago
Phys.org / Midwest flamingos and 'hurricane toads': Wildlife's strange storm stories

Hurricanes can be a devastating force—leveling trees, erasing beaches and damaging homes. But what do they do to wildlife? The answer ranges from the good to the bad to the ugly. Hurricanes sometimes help native species, ...

23 hours ago
Phys.org / We're 'green chemists'—why we think this emerging science can transform the way the world uses its resources

Society depends on chemistry far more than we consciously realize, from medicines to energy to electronics. However, chemistry is viewed with as much apprehension as gratitude, because of the pollution and health problems ...

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Medical Xpress / New study could improve testing and treatment for rare brain, spinal cord, and eye cancers

A new study has identified hepatitis A virus cellular receptor 1 (HAVCR1) as a biomarker that could make it easier to diagnose rare but aggressive forms of brain and eye cancer earlier and with fewer invasive tests.

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