WILMINGTON, Delaware, April 1 -- AstraZeneca, a biopharmaceutical company, issued the following news release: * * * Efzimfotase alfa demonstrated positive results from global Phase III clinical program in hypophosphatasia MULBERRY randomized, placebo-controlled trial showed efzimfotase alfa demonstrated statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in bone health in treatment-naive pediatric patients CHESTNUT randomized, open-label, active-controlled trial demonstrated safe more PR

MIAMI, Florida, April 1 (TNSjou) -- Florida International University, a component of the public university system in Florida, issued the following news: * * * These sharks don't sweat temperature changes By JoAnn Adkins Most predators slow down when ocean temperatures shift. Great hammerhead sharks don't -- not significantly anyway. These ocean predators are masters of the "thermal hustle," maintaining peak hunting performance across a surprisingly wide range of ocean temperatures between w more PR

UTRECHT, The Netherlands, March 31 -- Utrecht University posted the following news: * * * How hair-cell bundles in the inner ear not only sense sound, but also amplify it * By combining biological experiments, AI, physics, and mathematical equations, an international team of researchers has gained new insights into how hair-cell bundles in the inner ear sense and amplify sound. By emitting energy through oscillations, certain hair-cell bundles amplify sound waves so they can be picked up bet more PR

NEW YORK, March 30 [Category: BizHospital] -- Mount Sinai Health System posted the following news release: * * * Researchers Identify the Most Common Recessive Neurodevelopmental Disorder Ever Discovered * Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York have identified and described a previously unknown recessive neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) that appears to be the most prevalent ever discovered. The condition is caused by changes in a small noncoding gene called R more PR

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, April 1 (TNSjou) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: * * * Did Impacts From Meteors Help Start Life on Earth? Research synthesized by a recent Rutgers graduate suggests vents generated from the impacts of space rocks may have enabled suitable environments for the first living cells By Kitta MacPherson Meteor impacts may have helped spark life on Earth, creating hot, chemical-rich environments where the first living cells could take shape, according to more PR

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, March 31 -- The Washington University School of Medicine posted the following news release: * * * Chemical compound clears cellular waste, protects neurons in model of frontotemporal dementia * New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis adds to growing evidence that helping brain cells break down and eliminate their own cellular waste is a promising treatment strategy for a variety of neurodegenerative diseases. In lab experiments, the resear more PR