Month: March 2018

Cambridge, Mass. - March 15, 2018 - A minimally invasive surgical device to be commercialized by a newly launched startup ...

Blunt products more popular in states where marijuana is legal

March 15, 2018 -- A study by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health finds that cigars commonly ...

Land under water: Estimating hydropower’s land use impacts

Credit: Ånund Killingtveit/NTNU Hydropower is the world's top provider of renewable energy, producing a whopping 16 per cent of the ...

SFU students are helping develop heat and drought tolerant rice and wheat

Credit: SFU The United Nations predicts that by 2050 our growing global population will require 70 per cent more food ...

Destroy Pancreatic Cancer dedicates $1 million for unique TGen-designed clinical trial

PHOENIX, Ariz. and Atlanta, Ga. -- March 12, 2018 -- Destroy Pancreatic Cancer, an Atlanta-based non-profit dedicated to finding better ...

Saving lives with platypus milk

Credit: Laura Romin and Larry Dalton. A breakthrough by Australian scientists has brought the introduction of an unlikely hero in ...

Fussy eating prevents mongoose family feuds

Credit: Harry Marshall Mongooses living in large groups develop "specialist" diets so they don't have to fight over food, new ...

New book explores zoos’, aquariums’ evolving role in tackling global biodiversity crisis

Credit: The Ark and Beyond As scores of wild species and ecosystems around the world face a variety of human-caused ...

Keeping plant-cell motors on track

Credit: Joe Angeles/Washington University Within both plant and animal cells, motor proteins act like the engines in a busy train ...

Nanostructures created at UCLA could make gene therapies safer, faster & more affordable

Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center/ACS Nano UCLA scientists have developed a new method that utilizes microscopic splinter-like structures ...

Nightmares are common but underreported in US military personnel

Credit: The American Academy of Sleep Medicine DARIEN, IL - March 14, 2018 - A new study shows that a ...

Study examines how hospital payments for heart attack care may affect patient outcomes

Credit: Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON -- In recent years, there ...

Novel use for drug reduces post-operative nausea and vomiting

CHICAGO - An innovative use for a known drug is showing promise as an effective treatment for preventing postoperative nausea ...

NSF grant awarded for research that supports anti-cancer therapeutics

Credit: University of Akron Dr. Adam W. Smith, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, has won a CAREER award ...

Proposal outlining premium hikes, short term insurance falls short, AGS experts

A study suggests structural difference in the brain of transgender people

Researchers at the University of São Paulo's Medical School (FM-USP) in Brazil used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to complete the ...

CHOP researchers highlight advances in pediatric heart disease at ACC Scientific Session 2018

Physician-researchers from the Cardiac Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) presented new findings on pediatric cardiovascular disease at the ...

Research team develops clinically-validated 3-D printed stethoscope

Credit: Schulich Medicine & Dentistry A team of researchers have developed an open-source, clinically validated template for a 3D printed ...

Researchers create 3-D structure of the nuclear pore complex

(Boston)--For the first time, researchers have produced a nearly complete three-dimensional structure for the yeast Nuclear Pore Complex (NPC). This ...

Study: Hispanic Americans across ethnicities want HIV testing in Spanish