Nintedanib slows progression for broad range of scarring lung diseases
Findings suggest all progressive, scarring lung diseases may share similar mechanismsCredit: National Jewish Health Nintedanib, a medication approved for the...
US government backs Sydney spinout company Kinoxis Therapeutics to fight opioid addiction
Funding to support development of a potential treatment for opioid withdrawalCredit: Stefanie Zingsheim/University of Sydney Kinoxis Therapeutics has been awarded...
Wrist-worn step trackers accurate in predicting patient health outcomes
Credit: Intermountain Healthcare Determining how far patients with pulmonary disease can walk in six minutes has long been an effective...
Additional heart artery stenting reduces risk of future heart attacks
Credit: The University of Sheffield Research shows that patients requiring emergency heart attack treatment also benefit from further intervention to...
PARP inhibitor plus chemotherapy improves progression-free survival for advanced ovarian cancer patients
Phase III trial validates the benefit of veliparib for patients without a BRCA mutationCredit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers from...
New treatment improves survival in women newly diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer
An international study shows that administering niraparib after chemotherapy reduces by nearly 40% the risk of relapse or death from...
New blood test capable of detecting multiple types of cancer
In study, test proved able to detect and localize more than 20 types of cancer with a high degree of...
UTA testing method to build temperature, heat-flux sensors for hypersonic vehicles
Reliable sensors for hypersonic flightCredit: UT Arlington Harsh environmental conditions--such as surface temperatures reaching thousands of degrees Fahrenheit--make it challenging...
Extra amino acid could work wonders
Rice University chemist uses designer amino acids in search for new curesCredit: Rice University Rice U. chemist uses designer amino...
African American children respond differently to asthma medications
BARD trial suggests shortcomings in treatment guidelines and demonstrates need for trials of specific subgroupsCredit: National Jewish Health African Americans...
For this ocean dweller, ability to respond to warming waters is about location
Credit: Matthew Sasaki It's common knowledge that, through the process of natural selection, organisms adapt to their environments. But what...
Researchers make it possible for ultrasound to reveal gene expression in the body
Credit: Caltech Some of the most important tools in the toolbox of modern cell biologists are special chunks of DNA...
Great Lakes Sea grant programs awarded $1 million for aquaculture collaborative
Credit: NOAA/Minnesota Sea Grant Duluth, Minnesota -- Great Lakes states are not keeping pace with increases in consumer demand for...
UTSW researchers identify molecule linking weight gain to gut bacteria
Credit: UTSW DALLAS - Sept. 27, 2019 - UT Southwestern researchers have found a key driver of the crosstalk that...
Many gas giant exoplanets waiting to be discovered
There is an as-yet-unseen population of Jupiter-like planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars, awaiting discovery by future missionsCredit: Alan Boss Washington,...
CCNY physicists score double hit in LED research
Credit: Image credit: Visakh Menon In two breakthroughs in the realm of photonics, City College of New York graduate researchers...
Weird ideas for combating climate change (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Sept. 27, 2019 --There are things you can do right now to help our...
NASA-NOAA satellite sees Tropical Depression 19W organizing
Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and provided forecasters at the Joint Typhoon Warning...
Colorado project wins International Atomic Energy Agency safety competition
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center One of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) missions, in addition to being the...
Turning heat into electricity: A new thermoelectric material developed at FEFU
Young scientists from FEFU manufactured new thermoelectric material based on strontium titanate and titanium oxideCredit: FEFU press-office Young scientists from...
