Month: May 2018

Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, MI - These days, Americans can manage many facets of their lives through the ...

Some blood stem cells are better than others

Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases In your body, blood stem cells produce approximately 10 billion new white ...

Adults with high blood pressure face higher healthcare costs

DALLAS, May 30, 2018 -- Adults with high blood pressure face $1,920 higher healthcare costs each year compared to those ...

Insomnia is a likely long-term side effect of stroke

Stroke patients experience sustained problems with insomnia potentially reducing their ability to relearn key skills and putting them at increased ...

Promise of faster, more accessible schizophrenia diagnosis, Rutgers study shows

Credit: Nick Romanenko / Rutgers University A portable device common in optometrists' offices may hold the key to faster diagnosis ...

UTA researcher’s technology could revolutionize testing, tracking of brain performance

Credit: UT Arlington A UTA engineering researcher has led the development of computer tests and games, that are both web-based ...

What happens to plasmalogens, the phospholipids nobody likes to think about

Credit: Richard Gross Alzheimer's disease patients lose up to 60% of a component called plasmalogen from the membranes of the ...

Wars and clan structure may explain a strange biological event 7,000 years ago

Starting about 7,000 years ago, something weird seems to have happened to men: Over the next two millennia, recent studies ...

Smell receptor fuels prostate cancer progression

Credit: Tatjana Abaffy DURHAM, N.C. -- When scientists first described the receptors responsible for our sense of smell, they naturally ...

Male thyroid cancer survivors face 50 percent higher risk of heart disease than women

WASHINGTON--Male thyroid cancer survivors have a nearly 50 percent higher risk of developing heart disease than women within five years ...

How to code a functional molecular machine?

Credit: IBS An international team has developed a model that simulates protein evolution. Starting from stiff, unfunctional proteins, the computer ...

Novel power meter opens the door for in-situ, real-time monitoring of high-power lasers

Credit: A. Artusio-Glimpse/NIST >[email protected] Orlando, FL - High-power lasers are now widely used in additive manufacturing and laser welding systems ...

New research could improve wireless sensing and communication

Credit: Binghamton University, State University at New York BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - A research team led by faculty at Binghamton University, ...

Group making digital tool for documenting life on Earth adopts new organizational model

Credit: University of Kansas LAWRENCE -- For more than 20 years, scientists managing biological research collections around the world have ...

First time guidance on treating red diaper syndrome in otherwise healthy breastfed infants

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 29, 2018 -- A case study and subsequent literature review ...

In child-crippling mucolipidosis IV, drug shows hope in lab cultures

Credit: ML4.org Mucolipidosis IV debilitates afflicted children's nervous systems in their first year of life, steals their eyesight in their ...

Engineers design color-changing compression bandage

Credit: Courtesy of the researchers Compression therapy is a standard form of treatment for patients who suffer from venous ulcers ...

Invisible barrier on ocean surface can reduce carbon uptake

An invisible layer of biological compounds on the sea surface reduces the rate at which carbon dioxide gas moves between ...

Scientists discover key mechanism behind the formation of spider silk

A group of scientists led by researchers from the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have examined the soluble ...

With tiny particles against major diseases