Month: April 2018

Credit: KAIST A Korean research team from KAIST developed a computational framework, DeepDDI, that accurately predicts and generates 86 types ...

Fatty fish and camelina oil are beneficial for your HDL and IDL cholesterol

Credit: UEF/Varpu Heiskanen Eating fatty fish increases the size and lipid composition of HDL particles in people with impaired glucose ...

Unique protein is a vulnerability in the malaria parasite

Over a thousand people die from malaria every day. The disease is caused by a single-cell parasite (protozoan) that is ...

Keeping the excitement under control

Credit: Jean-Sebastian Jouhanneau, MDC James Poulet's lab at the MDC uses advanced techniques to monitor the activity of networks of ...

Improved method of delivering anti-cancer drugs

A new non-toxic method for delivering anti-cancer drugs to specific parts of the human body could mean the end of ...

Study shows men and women tear ACL the same way in non-contact injury

Credit: Louis DeFrate/Duke University While women are two to four times more likely than men to tear the anterior cruciate ...

Why don’t kids use their asthma medicines?

In a new analysis of interviews conducted with children who have asthma, their caregivers and their clinicians, Johns Hopkins researchers ...

Direct electrical current used to preferentially inhibit pain-transmitting neurons

Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Using computer models and laboratory rats, Johns Hopkins researchers have demonstrated that "direct electrical current" can ...

Engineering a better device to capture — and release — circulating tumor cells

Credit: iDreamMachine For years, bioengineer Yaling Liu has been in pursuit of the deadly tumor cell. Liu has been perfecting ...

Overcoming bias about music takes work

Expectations and biases play a large role in our experiences. This has been demonstrated in studies involving art, wine and ...

Active young adults with Type 1 diabetes have muscle complications: Study

Credit: York University News Toronto, ON (April 18, 2018) - A new study from McMaster and York universities has found ...

Mayo Clinic study finds no evidence that anesthesia in young children lowers intelligence

ROCHESTER, Minn. - A Mayo Clinic study finds no evidence that children given anesthesia before their third birthdays have lower ...

Low-income HIV patients suffer with healthcare access

Credit: MUHC Montreal, April 18, 2017-- Quebecers are not created equal when it comes to accessing anti-retroviral treatment (ART) for ...

ALS treatment delays disease and extends life in rats

Credit: Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute LOS ANGELES (April 17, 2018) -- Investigators at Cedars-Sinai are exploring a ...

Thinking about hitching a ride on a mission to Mars? One hazard you haven’t considered

Credit: NASA WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 17, 2018 -- The hazards of space flight are well known: freezing temperatures, the ...

People who use medical marijuana more likely to use and misuse prescription drugs

April 17, 2018 - Can medical marijuana help to fight the opioid epidemic? Many believe that it can. But a ...

OncoDNA announces publication of peer-reviewed study in Oncotarget assessing the utility of its unique biomarker analysis and interpretation platform in clinical decision making

Credit: Jean-François Laes, email: [email protected] Gosselies, Belgium - April 17, 2018: OncoDNA ("OncoDNA or "the Company"), the healthcare technology company ...

Novel proteomics strategies aid cancer research

This month's issue of the journal Molecular & Cellular Proteomics features research using novel proteomics methods to address unanswered questions ...

Nobel laureate, respected researchers talk exosomes in APS President’s Symposium series

San Diego (April 17, 2018) -- APS President Dennis Brown, PhD, of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, has ...

Study: Ibuprofen, acetaminophen more effective than opioids in treating dental pain