A week of celebration and inspiration — Boston-style
Photo: AboveSummit/Christopher Harting This October, Boston will celebrate its technology, art, and culture at HUBweek, an eight-day festival showcasing what ...
Month: February 2018
Walking below minimum recommended levels linked to lower mortality risk
A new study concludes that walking has the potential to significantly improve the public’s health. It finds regular walking, even ...
Chemists have created compounds that can treat glaucoma
Credit: Anton Shetnev Glaucoma is a serious disease associated with increased intraocular pressure which often leads to blindness. One of ...
Chinese researchers reveal redox sensor protein role in pathogenic mycobacteria
As one of the most successful intracellular pathogens, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) causes 8 million cases of tuberculosis and 1.3 million ...
New images reveal how the ear’s sensory hairs take shape
Credit: Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University Our ears are exquisite detection instruments, capable of discerning a whisper ...
Scientists create an atlas of the developing mouse heart
Credit: Harvard Medical School It's not simple, making a heart. In the womb, the organ begins as a tube, sprouts ...
Polymer puts new medical solutions within reach
IMAGE: The liquid crystalline hydrogel in a dry state. Credit: Patrick Mather Researchers, particularly those in the medical field, have ...
Why studying sugars matters in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: GlycoNet (February 9, 2018 – EDMONTON) Two GlycoNet Investigators are using technology to better understand how sugars in the ...
In atomic propellers, quantum phenomena can mimic everyday physics
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski In molecules there are certain groups of atoms that are able to rotate. This movement ...
Hacking evolution, screening technique may improve most widespread…
Credit: University of Illinois Plants evolved over millions of years into an environment that has dramatically changed in the last ...
On the trail of Parkinson’s disease
Credit: University of Konstanz In a complex series of experiments they examined what the effects were of changing a single ...
Mapping brain connectivity with MRI may predict outcomes for cardiac arrest survivors,…
A new study led by Johns Hopkins researchers found that measures of connectivity within specific cerebral networks were strongly linked ...
Dr. Fatima Sheikh named AGS Clinician of the Year
Credit: (C) 2017, American Geriatrics Society The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) has named Fatima Sheikh, MD, CMD, MPH, Medical Director ...
How the index finger can be fooled
Fingers are a human's most important tactile sensors, but they do not always sense accurately and can even be deceived. ...
Chemo-boosting drug discovered for leukemia
Credit: Diana Passaro Drugs developed to treat heart and blood vessel problems could be used in combination with chemotherapy to ...
Why do guillemot chicks leap from the nest before they can fly?
Credit: Photo: Lars Maltha Rasmussen It looks like a spooky suicide when small, fluffy guillemot chicks leap from the cliffs ...
New mechanisms of self-organization in living cells
Chromosome is a structure inside the cell nucleus that carries a large part of the genetic information and is responsible ...
Discharge strategies to prevent asthma readmissions
Credit: Children's National Health System Readmission rates at three months for kids hospitalized for acute asthma dropped when families received ...
Using MRI to understand why some women go into early labor
Credit: University of Leeds Scientists are using the latest imaging techniques usually used to map the brain to try and ...
Scientists track down origin of bats killed by wind turbines using chemical fingerprints
Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science/Ed Gates FROSTBURG, MD (March 17, 2016) — Wind energy is a growing ...
