Yoga Can Lower Fatigue, Inflammation in Breast Cancer Survivors
Practicing yoga for as little as three months can reduce fatigue and lower inflammation in breast cancer survivors, according to…
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How similar are the gestures of apes and human infants? More than you might suspect
Psychologists who analyzed video of a female chimpanzee, a female bonobo and a female human infant in a study to…
USF researchers find far-reaching, mirovascular damage in uninjured side of brain after stroke
While the effects of acute stroke have been widely studied, brain damage during the subacute phase of stroke has been…
Cancer’s many faces examined in new study
This year, according to the American Cancer Society, some 232,340 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in…
Diamonds, nanotubes find common ground in graphene
Rice University and the Honda Research Institute use single-layer graphene to grow forests of nanotubes on virtually anything. The image…
Organic polymers show sunny potential
Researchers at Rice and Pennsylvania State universities have created solar cells based on block copolymers, self-assembling organic materials that arrange…
Biologists take snapshot of fleeting protein process
Structural biologists from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have captured the first three-dimensional crystalline snapshot of a…
Clouds in the head
A new model of the brain's thought processes explains the apparently chaotic activity patterns of individual neurons. They do not…
New blood-thinner measures may cut medication errors
Georgia Tech School of Chemistry and Biochemistry postdoctoral fellow Chiaolong Hsiao (left) and professor Loren Williams examine on a light…