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New compound targets TB bacterium’s defense against the immune system
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How will electronic medical records and patient portals change patient care
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£60 million boost to strengthen the UK’s manufacturing base through 6 new research hubs
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No safe level of smoking
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Moffitt Cancer Center study shows promising clinical activity
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American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons announces official open access journal
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Babies’ first words can be predicted based on visual attention, IU study finds
Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University psychologists have shown that a baby's most likely first words are based ...
Global public health advocates open new fronts in war on tobacco
Credit: IASLC Efforts to control tobacco as a public health threat have escalated as clinicians and public health advocates have ...
The Goldilocks effect in aging research
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(December 5, 2016) Ever since researchers connected the shortening of telomeres--the protective structures on the ends ...
Legendary Chesapeake scientist Walter Boynton awarded Mathias Medal
Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science/Cheryl Nemazie ANNAPOLIS, MD (December 5, 2016)--Walter Boynton, a fixture in the world ...
Transportation center earns $15 million federal research grant, national designation
Credit: TREC/Portland State University Portland State University has secured a five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation for transportation ...
Efficiency of insect biodiversity monitoring via Malaise trap samples and DNA barcoding
Credit: Bernhard Huber The massive decline of over 75% insect biomass reported from Germany between 1989 and 2013 by expert ...
Delivering a power punch
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Frank Wilczek hosts first workshop on axions as professor at Stockholm University
Credit: Photo: Niklas Björling/Stockholm University Stockholm University and NORDITA host this week an international workshop on axions and dark matter. ...
New study of water-saving plants advances efforts to develop drought-resistant crops
Credit: Jason Richards/Oak Ridge National Laboratory OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Dec. 5, 2016 - As part of an effort to develop ...
Tufts researchers uncover possible source of genetic error causing multiple diseases
Credit: Melody Ko/Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (December 5, 2016)--Tufts University researchers have discovered a possible explanation for the occurrence of ...
RNA interference is activated in human response to influenza, other important viruses
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University of California, Riverside, have shown for the first time that RNA ...
Genetic factors control regenerative properties of blood-forming stem cells
Credit: UCLA/Nature Medicine FINDINGS Researchers from the UCLA Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology Oncology and the Eli and Edythe ...
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