Month: July 2018

Bentham Science has agreed to co-distributing publications published by Focus Medica and Panther Publishers. The agreement expands Bentham's portfolio of ...

Feeling young could mean your brain is aging more slowly

While everyone gets older, not everyone feels their age. A recent study finds that such feelings, called subjective age, may ...

Consciousness is partly preserved during general anaesthesia

When people are administered an anaesthetic, they seem to lose consciousness - or at least they stop reacting to their ...

Researchers gather in New Delhi to kick off observational study for newborns with sepsis

Over 80 researchers from 11 countries are meeting in New Delhi today to kick off an observational study to understand ...

Sound waves could provide ‘liquid biopsies’

Credit: Kara Manke, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Using sound waves, an international team of researchers has developed a gentle, ...

More than 8 million babies born from IVF since the world’s first in 1978

Barcelona, 3 July 2018: Forty years after the birth of Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, an international committee ...

Study shows where brain transforms seeing into acting

Credit: Sur Lab / MIT Picower Institute You see the flour in the pantry, so you reach for it. You ...

A novel switch to control genome editing

Credit: Tony Perry/University of Bath A biological switch that reliably turns protein expression on at will has been invented by ...

A commonly offered add-on treatment for IVF fails to provide any benefit in a large randomized trial

Barcelona, 3 July 2018: An add-on treatment commonly offered to female IVF patients to improve their chance of success has ...

Anticonvulsant drugs ineffective for low back pain and can cause harm, despite increased prescribing

Anticonvulsant drugs are increasingly being used to treat low back pain, but a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association ...

Caring for seniors with dementia and their caregivers: A guide for physicians

Podcast pre-embargo link: https://soundcloud.com/cmajpodcasts/170920-view Community-based health care providers, such as physicians, nurse practitioners and others, should be aware of services ...

AOSSM presents prestigious research awards and grants

American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) Presents Prestigious Research Awards and Grants at Annual Meeting SAN DIEGO, CA - ...

UC Davis receives $2.7 million to map brain’s attention network

From moment to moment, the brain processes millions of pieces of information. When people need to focus on a critical ...

17th International Conference on Organized Molecular Films registration opens

The 17th International Conference on Organized Molecular Films (ICOMF) in Brooklyn, NY, USA, during 23th - 27th July 2018 will ...

Stem cells restore function in primate heart-failure study

Credit: UW Medicine Researchers at UW Medicine in Seattle have successfully used human stem cells to restore heart function in ...

PETA, Dow Chemical, Department of Defense, others co-author inhalation testing paper

In another heavy-hitting collaboration, PETA scientists coauthored an article with leading universities, corporations, and government agencies--including Cardiff University, The Dow ...

10 scientists and students selected for new ASBMB science-advocacy training program

The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has begun a new program to train the next generation of science ...

Grant to explore genome editing and stem cell potential for cardiac treatment

Credit: Xiaojun Lance Lian/Penn State Examining the treatment potential of cardiac cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) may ...

Loss of lemurs might endanger many of Madagascar’s largest tree species

Credit: Mathias Appel Widespread logging and hunting have endangered virtually all of Madagascar's 100-plus species of iconic lemurs, and a ...

Fleet of aerial, surface, and underwater robots maps ocean front