Month: March 2018

Barcelona, Spain - 20 March 2018: Apixaban and warfarin are equally safe during catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation, according to ...

Trial shows safety of drugs for irregular heartbeat patients undergoing treatment

A trial led by the University of Birmingham has found that two types of blood thinning drugs are safe to ...

Harvard bioengineers’ biomaterial-based cancer immunotherapies to be developed by Novartis

Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University (BOSTON) - The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the ...

High consumption of red and processed meat linked to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and insulin resistance

Credit: Journal of Hepatology Amsterdam, March 20, 2018 - World meat consumption has increased during the last decades, and evidence ...

Pipe-crawling robot will help decommission DOE nuclear facility

Credit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH--A pair of autonomous robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute will soon be driving ...

Potential cognitive effects of targeted drugs in children may be reversible with therapy

Bottom Line: Young mice that received molecularly targeted therapies used to treat brain cancer in human patients sustained cognitive and ...

Music therapy aids healing of military personnel

A new paper published in Music Therapy Perspectives examines the importance of music therapy in military healthcare. There has been ...

Weight loss after stomach-narrowing surgery eases chronic knee pain

A new report finds that extremely obese people who have a band surgically strapped around their stomachs to restrict food ...

Tamoxifen and raloxifene slow down the progression of muscular dystrophy

Credit: The American Journal of Pathology Philadelphia, March 20, 2018 - Steroids are currently the only available treatment to reduce ...

New Gulf of Maine study investigates return of kelp

Credit: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has been awarded funding from Maine Sea Grant for ...

Five new species of frogs identified in museum collections

Researchers from Yale-NUS College and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences have discovered five new species of Southeast Asian ...

Transcription factor helps tumors grow in low oxygen, resist anticancer therapies

An international team of researchers found how cancer cells respond to DNA damage signaling when in low oxygen, or hypoxia. ...

Type 2 Diabetes research held back by animal models

WASHINGTON -- A new report published in Alternatives to Laboratory Animals identifies the limitations of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) ...

Palm trees are spreading northward — how far will they go?

Credit: Tammo Reichgelt/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory What does it take for palm trees, the unofficial trademark of tropical landscapes, to expand ...

Making intricate images with bacterial communities

Credit: Xiaofan Jin and Ingmar Riedel-Kruse Working with light and genetically engineered bacteria, researchers from Stanford University are able to ...

Scientists discover new causes of cellular decline in prematurely aging kids

Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS -- In a recent paper published in Cell Reports, Saint Louis University researchers have ...

TGen tests ultrasound as way to enhance cancer drug delivery

PHOENIX, Ariz. and OSLO, Norway -- March 19, 2018 -- For decades, ultrasound has been used to image organs such ...

Research with made-in-Canada molecule targets fungal infections worldwide

Credit: Photo credit: University of Toronto. People whose immune systems are compromised from illnesses such as cancer can also fall ...

So close, yet so far: Making climate impacts feel nearby may not inspire action

ITHACA, N.Y. - Although scientists warn that urgent action is needed to stop climate change, public engagement continues to lag. ...

Cancer comes back all jacked up on stem cells