Month: March 2018

Credit: Adrian Shellard, Hotchkiss Brain Institute. In a new study in Nature Neuroscience, Jaideep Bains, PhD, and his team at ...

WASHINGTON, March 8, 2018 -- During the Opening Session and Welcome Reception, five scientists will explore a variety of subjects ...

Water, always important, always controversial, always fascinating, remains surprising. For a substance that is ubiquitous on Earth, three quarters of ...

Some of Brazil's most important rivers, including the Xingu, Tocantins, Araguaia, São Francisco, Parnaíba, Gurupi, Jequitinhonha, Paraná and Paraguay, rise ...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Extremely low birth-weight babies are at risk for a chronic lung disease called bronchopulmonary dysplasia, ...

In general, women regret short-term sexual encounters like one-night stands more than men do. But various factors determine whether and ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (March 8, 2018)-The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) today presented the 2018 William W. Tipton, Jr., ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. - Mayo Clinic and IBM Watson Health today unveiled results from early use of the Watson for Clinical ...

March 8, 2019 -- Investing in diminishing socioeconomic status inequalities and in preventing violent events during childhood may improve the ...

Credit: Syam Nukavarapu/UConn Photo A team of UConn Health researchers has designed a novel, hybrid hydrogel system to help address ...

Credit: George Mason University A recent study by George Mason University researchers in the Department of Global and Community Health ...

Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute A discovery by Melbourne researchers could help to identify patients with a particularly aggressive ...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine When the protein ATAXIN1 accumulates in neurons it causes a neurodegenerative condition called spinocerebellar ataxia ...

Credit: Lehigh University Few creatures, aside from humans, have the ability to reshape the world in which they live. The ...

Despite public health campaigns aimed at reducing unnecessary prescriptions for antibiotics, the drugs continue to be prescribed at startlingly high ...

Credit: (Image: University of Basel, Department of Biomedicine) A newly-discovered hereditary mutation is responsible for an increased production of erythropoietin ...

(University of Pittsburgh) The reluctance of American chemical manufacturers to update their technology has dulled the nation's competitive edge for ...

Credit: Photo by Cindy Brauer LA JOLLA, CA - March 8, 2018 - About 1 in 2,500 people have a ...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 7, 2018--Researchers have shown that a wide variety of synthetic ...

Axons, the long projections of neural cells which form the nerves of our peripheral nervous system, are like electrical cables: ...