Novel approach may improve valve function in some patients
WASHINGTON (June 16, 2017) -- Pulsed cavitation ultrasound can be used to remotely soften human degenerative calcified biosprosthetic valves and ...
Building a better alligator: Researchers develop advanced 3-D models of bite data
Credit: Casey Holliday COLUMBIA, Mo. - The skulls of alligators protect their brains, eyes and sense organs while producing some ...
Investigating emotional spillover in the brain
Life is full of emotional highs and lows, ranging from enjoying an activity with a loved one and savoring a ...
I can hear you now: Clinic provides free hearing aids for low-income adults
Credit: Michigan Medicine Low-income people dealing with hearing loss just got a little hope. Doctors from Michigan Medicine's Department of ...
Obamacare key to improving access in Mexican-American patients with hypertension
The Affordable Care Act narrows the gap in care between Mexican-Americans and white Americans with high blood pressure, a major ...
Genes and the environment? Factors, patterns that lead to childhood obesity risk
URBANA, Ill. - In the preschool years, children begin to learn from their environment about self-regulation--both in regards to food ...
Rapid test facilitates malaria diagnosis
Credit: Andreas Heddergott / Technical University of Munich Diagnosing malaria has been a very time-consuming and error-prone process up to ...
New web calculator to more accurately predict bowel cancer survival
"How long do I have, doctor?" For many cancer patients, following the initial shock of their diagnosis, thoughts quickly turn ...
Radon increases risk for malignant skin cancer
It is undisputed that radon is a risk factor for developing lung cancer. New research by the Swiss Tropical and ...
Excess risk of cardiovascular events in RA patients decreased since start of 21st century
The results of a meta-analysis presented for the first time today at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR) 2017 ...
Broccoli in focus when new substance against diabetes has been identified
Credit: Margareta Gustafsson Kubista/University of Gothenburg Researchers have identified an antioxidant - richly occurring in broccoli - as a new ...
Scientists solve 30-year old mystery on how resistance genes spread
Credit: DTU/DTU Biosustain To win the war against antibiotic resistant super bugs, scientists seek to find the origin of resistance ...
New approach to unlock the genetic potential of plant cell wall
Researchers from the University of York and the Quadram Institute have unlocked the genetic secrets of plant cell walls, which ...
Researchers use light to manipulate mosquitoes
Credit: University of Notre Dame Scientists at the University of Notre Dame have found that exposure to just 10 minutes ...
Increase in ciguatera fish poisoning cases in Europe
The substance ciguatoxin is only found in fish from tropical and subtropical seas. For some years now, cases of ciguatera ...
Viral vectors for gene transfer travel longer distances in the brain than thought
Credit: Kirsti Witter/Vetmeduni Vienna Gene transfer is seen as a hopeful therapy for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients. The approach involves ...
Skin disease caused by sperm cell transmission of keratin mutation
Credit: Michihiro Kono Nagoya, Japan - Birthmarks can be caused by an overgrowth of cells in the top layer of ...
Biologists have explored how testate amoebae survive in peat fires
Credit: Yuri Mazei An International team from China University of Geosciences, University of York and Lomonosov Moscow State University have ...
EMBO welcomes 65 new members
Heidelberg, June 16, 2017 - EMBO announces today that 65 outstanding life scientists have been elected to its membership, joining ...
Study casts doubt about link between eczema, cardiovascular disease
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- For the roughly 7 percent of adults who live with atopic dermatitis, a common form of eczema, ...
