Newest Science News Blog 20180716

Pay Attention to Self-harm: It Is a Precursor to Suicide
Self-harm and Suicide
Using hepatitis C-infected donor kidneys could reduce time on dialysis for transplant patients with HCV
Transplanting HCV patients with organs from HCV-positive donors and then treating the infection more effective than waiting
ANU scientists discover the world's oldest colors
1.1 BYO bright pink pigments extracted from rocks beneath the Sahara desert
Leukemia researchers discover way to predict healthy people at risk for developing AML
An international team of leukemia scientists has discovered how to predict healthy individuals at risk of developing acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive and often deadly blood cancer.
Rescued from the Cave, Thai Soccer Team Gets Quarantined: Here's Why
Caves can be petri dishes for bacteria and viruses
Prescription Drugs and Iatrogenic Depression
Can physicians be contributing to the prevalence of depression?
Artificial intelligence helps Stanford researchers predict drug combinations' side effects
Often, doctors have no idea what side effects may arise from adding another drug to a patient's personal pharmacy
Dying Organs Restored to Life in Novel Experiments
An unusual transplant may revive tissues thought to be hopelessly damaged, including the heart and brain.
Drugs that kill off old cells may limit a body’s aging
Mice given a drug combo see a reverse of some problems caused by senescent cells.
Rocky planet neighbor looks familiar, but is not Earth's twin
Detailed chemical abundances of the Ross 128 help us understand its exoplanet Ross 128 b
The 'Big Bang' of Alzheimer's: Scientists ID genesis of disease
Scientists have discovered a "Big Bang" of Alzheimer's disease - the precise point at which a healthy protein becomes toxic but has not yet formed deadly tangles in the brain.
Cellular 'garbage disposal' has another job
Cellular "garbage disposal," known to scientists as proteasomes, but actually work on some of the most important proteins to neuronal development
Stopping type 1 diabetes from birth
Experts believe they may have found a way to prevent high risk babies from developing type 1 diabetes.
Tools from China are oldest hint of human lineage outside Africa
2.1-million-year-old stone tools suggest hominins reached East Asia much earlier than thought.
Our fractured African roots
Humans did not stem from a single ancestral population in one region of Africa, as is often claimed
A Woman Had Strange Feelings in Her Legs. Doctors Found Parasites in Her Spine
The woman's unusual symptoms turned out to have a surprising cause: Tapeworm larvae lurking in her spine
Gastrointestinal flora -- the culprit for severe lung damage after blood transfusion
Previously unknown link between the bacteria in the gut and acute lung injury after blood transfusions revealed
Traitorous Tumor Cells Kill Their Own Kind
Researchers plan to turn cancer cells into defectors, engineering them to kill the tumors from whence they came, and have tested the approach in mice.
Emerging sex disease MG 'could become next superbug'
A little known sexually transmitted infection could become the next superbug unless people become more vigilant, experts are warning.
Smell receptors in the body could help sniff out disease
Olfactory cells found throughout the body may help or harm depending on location
Why internal scars won't stop growing
Rogue molecules provoke out-of-control scar tissue, strangle organs
This Holey Skull May Have Watched Over Dead People in the Afterlife Some 2,500 Years Ago
Around 2,500 years ago, the skull of a woman who died of cancer was buried facing into an artificial cave dug out of the rock, as if staring at the remains of at least 50 people hidden inside, archaeologists have discovered.
NASA Discovered Evidence of Life on Mars 40 Years Ago, Then Set It On Fire
In the late 1970s, two Viking robots sailed to Mars, pillaged the soil and burnt any traces of life they found.
Cinnamon oil could be key in preventing superbugs
As antibiotics become less effective against superbugs, a Swinburne researcher has been focusing on traditional agents to modify the behaviour of bacteria rather than killing bacteria.
Novel therapy delays muscle atrophy in Lou Gehrig's disease model
Mouse study could provide foundation for future human therapeutics
New study highlights Alzheimer's herpes link, experts say
A new commentary by scientists at the Universities of Manchester and Edinburgh on a study by Taiwanese epidemiologists supports the viability of a potential way to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
Turbulence allows clinical-scale platelet production for transfusions
Turbulence is critical for promoting large-scale production of functional platelets from human induced pluripotent stem cells
Southeast Asians Derive Ancestry from Four Ancient Populations
Modern-day Southeast Asian populations are the result of mixing among four ancient populations, including multiple waves of genetic material from more northern East Asian populations, according to researchers who sequenced and analyzed 26 ancient genomes from Southeast Asia and Japan.
Parental chromosomes kept apart during embryo's first division
Separate spindles for each set of parental chromosomes means genetic information from parents is kept apart during the first division
Products of omega-3 fatty acid metabolism may have anticancer effects, study shows
Endocannabinoids from metabolism of omega-3 fatty acids could inhibit cancer's growth and spread
Drug to Treat Smallpox Approved by F.D.A., a Move Against Bioterrorism
First drug approved to treat smallpox; a move that could halt a lethal pandemic if the virus were released
Why Do Some People Hate the Taste of Beer?
If the thought of sipping a beer is gag-inducing, you're not alone. But even if you're in good company, it begs the question: Why do some people hate the taste of beer?

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