AUGUSTA, Georgia, July 21 (TNSJou) -- Augusta University issued the following news release: An internal transporter that enables us to use the copper we consume in foods like shellfish and nuts to enable a host of vital body functions also has the essential role of protecting the receptor that enables us to grow new blood vessels when ours become diseased, Medical College of Georgia scientists report. The findings published in the journal Nature Communications point toward the copper transport  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 23 (TNSPol) -- Environment America issued the following news release: As news breaks of another serious North Atlantic right whale entanglement, conservation advocates along the East Coast called on Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to immediately implement new rules to save the eastern United States' most endangered marine mammal. Recent population estimates put the North Atlantic right whale population at 356, the lowest in decades. Scientists have linked the whale   more

MADISON, Wisconsin, July 23 (TNSJou) -- The University of Wisconsin Madison campus issued the following news: By Eric Hamilton Some of the world's most common allergy-inducing critters, from dust mites to fungi to shellfish, have one thing in common: chitin, the polymer that makes tough cell walls in mushrooms, fungal spores and crunchy lobster exoskeletons. A whiff of chitin triggers an immune response in the lungs, likely to prepare them to fend off fungal spores. But in some people, that r  more