Marketing study investigates impact of Viagra TV ads on birth rates
Credit: UT Dallas Many marketing studies have examined the impact of direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals on sales and market shares. ...
Month: October 2020
Black hole shadow puts general relativity to the test
Credit: Lia Medeiros, IAS, BH PIRE This news is embargoed until Oct. 1, 2020, 11:00 a.m. ET and should follow ...
Repurposed anti-malarial compounds kill diarrheal parasite, study finds
Credit: Image courtesy of Sumiti Vinayak CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A class of compounds used for malaria treatment also kill the ...
Rise of the mutants: New uOttawa-led research to improve enzyme design methodologies
Credit: Rojo Rakotoharisoa A group of researchers at the University of Ottawa has been looking for ways to improve enzyme ...
Optics and photonics researcher receives $1.7 million nih grant
Assistant Professor Kyu Young Han will use the funding to develop a new optical technology that could aid in the ...
Einstein’s description of gravity just got much harder to beat
Astrophysicists put general relativity to a new test with black hole imagesCredit: L. Medeiros; C. Chan; D. Psaltis; F. Özel; ...
Noble metal clusters can enhance performance of catalysts and save resources
Lower-cost production thanks to optimized distribution of atoms - publication in Nature CatalysisCredit: Florian Maurer, KIT Billions of noble metal ...
Clarigent Health launches Clairity to support mental health risk reduction
Clairity supports clinical decisions and care with AI analysis of patient speech, treatment progress trends, and risk radar across patient ...
Coupling antibiotics with stem cells to fight off bone infections
Researchers from Kanazawa University discover that stem cells loaded with antibiotics may represent a novel therapy for implant-related bone infectionsCredit: ...
Researchers use satellite imaging to map groundwater use in California’s central valley
Satellite data reveal variability in intensity of groundwater use for different crops, a boon for irrigation policymaking across the stateCredit: ...
Ultrasensitive microwave detector developed
Credit: Sampson Wilcox from MIT A joint international research team from POSTECH of South Korea, Raytheon BBN Technologies, Harvard University, ...
Why writing by hand makes kids smarter
Writing by hand creates much more activity in the sensorimotor parts of the brain, researchers found.Credit: NTNU/Microsoft Professor Audrey van ...
Carb-eating bacteria under viral threat
Scientists characterize previously unknown gut reactionsCredit: (Purdue University and Seyet LLC) Strictly speaking, humans cannot digest complex carbohydrates -- that's ...
‘Social cells’ related to social behavior identified in the brain
Credit: © 2020 Miura et al. A research team led by Professor TAKUMI Toru of Kobe University's Graduate School of ...
Carbon-carbon covalent bonds far more flexible than presumed
Credit: Takuya Shimajiri, Takanori Suzuki, Yusuke Ishigaki, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, September 30, 2020 A Hokkaido University research group has ...
Tumor progression depends on the tumor microenvironment
Credit: Department of Biochemistry,TMDU Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) and Niigata University identify a novel mechanism by ...
Medical mystery: ‘Creeping fat’ in Crohn’s patients linked to bacteria
Credit: Cedars-Sinai In many patients with Crohn's disease abdominal fat migrates to the wall of the inflamed small intestines. What ...
Scientists map genes controlling immune system ‘brakes’
The findings help point toward drug targets for new immune therapies to treat cancer and autoimmune diseaseCredit: Gladstone Institutes SAN ...
Why drugs sometimes cause receptor potentiation rather than inhibition
Credit: RUB, Marquard Professor Andreas Reiner and Stefan Pollok from the junior research group Cellular Neurobiology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) ...
Stand Up To Cancer’s Sharp Tank Award goes to multiple myeloma research
Catherine Marinac was awarded $100,000 from SU2C to study health disparities in multiple myeloma as part of a "Shark Tank"-style ...
