Motor neuron toxin associated with ALS identified by UMass Chan investigators
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This study was supported by several funding agencies, including the ALS Association, the Angel Fund for ALS Research, ALS Therapy Alliance, ALS Finding a Cure, ALS ONE, the Max Rosenfeld ALS Research Fund and FightMND and with additional support from the National Institutes of Health and several Chilean governmental agencies.
Some coral species display resilience to the effects of ocean warming and acidification due to climate change, reports a study of three types of coral in Hawaii published in Scientific Reports.
Scientists reveal a new part of the recipe for complex life on planets, and it involves the onset of a microbial fertilizer factory on the Earth’s seafloor roughly 2.6 billion years ago.
A new analysis spanning more than 86,000 plant species from John Kress, botany curator emeritus at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and Gary Krupnick, head of the museum’s plant conservation unit, finds that on this human-dominated planet, many more species of plants are poised to “lose” rather than “win.” The study was published March 10 in the journal Plants, People, Planet.
What The Study Did: Researchers investigated the association of blood pressure trajectories from young adulthood to midlife with brain health, including gray and white matter volume and cerebral blood flow.
A long-term study of Hawaiian coral species provides a surprisingly optimistic view of how they might survive warmer and more acidic oceans resulting from climate change.
Acute amounts of lactate like those generated during exercise are probably required for healthy cells, but chronic exposure causes cellular disruption which can lead to cancer, heart failure and type 2 diabetes, according to a new study by scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.