Month: November 2018

Could we improve children's learning and wellbeing at school by increasing access to arts activities? Do elderly people living in ...

Brain changes found in self-injuring teen girls

Credit: The Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio - The brains of teenage girls who engage in serious forms of self-harm, ...

BU faculty honored with achievement awards from the American Academy of Ophthalmology

(Boston)--The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) honored two members of the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) faculty with awards ...

New methods to identify Alzheimer’s drug candidates with anti-aging properties

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(November 13, 2018) Old age is the greatest risk factor for many diseases, including Alzheimer's disease ...

£500,000 grant could lead to new antibiotic to combat superbugs

(University of Lincoln) A new antibiotic hailed as the 'last line of defence' in the battle against drug-resistant superbugs such ...

ID specialist input improves outcomes for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy

ARLINGTON, Va. - Before patients receive intravenous (IV) antimicrobial infusion therapy outside of the hospital - whether at home, a ...

Your heart hates air pollution; portable filters could help

Microscopic particles floating in the air we breathe come from sources such as fossil fuel combustion, fires, cigarettes and vehicles. ...

Pregnant women favor urine testing for tobacco cessation; clinicians express concern

Up to one-third of female smokers with Medicaid deny tobacco use during pregnancy. A new study finds that, despite reservations, ...

New wireless device can aid recovery of breast cancer patients

Patient studies of a new sensing device have proved it can provide early warning of the potential failure of breast ...

Alex Huang, M.D., Ph.D., awarded $1.35 million to conduct lifesaving childhood cancer research

Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Leading cancer researcher, Alex Huang MD, PhD, has been awarded a three-year, ...

InHPC-DE maximizes high-speed data connection between Germany’s leading supercomputers

BERLIN, Germany, Nov. 11, 2018--Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) users from Germany's leading academic institutions are now able to move ...

Skin ages when the main cells in the dermis lose their identity and function

Credit: M Salzer, IRB Barcelona With age, our tissues lose their function and capacity to regenerate after being damaged. A ...

2018 California Safety and Wellbeing Survey details firearm ownership in the state

Fourteen percent of California adults, or roughly 4.2 million individuals, personally own firearms. While the majority (54 percent) of owners ...

Prostate cancer radiotherapy more precisely targeted with nuclear medicine imaging

Credit: Jeremie Calais and Nicholas G. Nickols, UCLA. Current standard imaging techniques for initial staging of prostate cancer often underestimate ...

CIES and Advantest develop STT-MRAM switching current measurement for memory test systems

Credit: Advantest Corporation Tohoku University's Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES), led by Professor Tetsuo Endoh (Graduate School of ...

Grants aim to give veterans better access to cancer trials

Credit: SWOG Cancer Research Network/Hope Foundation for Cancer Research For the fourth year, SWOG Cancer Research Network and its charity, ...

No cooperation without open communication

Credit: IST Austria/Yvonne Kemper Indirect reciprocity is a model that explores how humans act when their reputation is at stake, ...

New book on Translation Mechanisms and Control from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

Credit: The authors thank Jonathan Weissman, Masaaki Sokabe, Christopher Fraser, Tsafi Pe'ery and Cheyenne Moorman for their contributions to the ...

Nitrogen fixation in ambient conditions

Credit: Marta Falcone/Marinella Mazzanti/EPFL Abundant in nature (78% of the air we breathe), nitrogen is rarely used in the industrial ...

First-ever prostate cancer treatment uses gold nanoparticles to destroy tumorous cells