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Credit: UEF / Raija Törrönen There are differences in the availability of orphan medicines between different European countries, a new...

State-of-the-art reviews in osteoimmunology

Osteoimmunology, which deals with the crosstalk and shared mechanisms of the skeletal and immune systems, provides important insights into both...

ATS Foundation and ResMed announce two-year research grant in sleep-disordered breathing

(New York, NY) - April 24, 2018 - The ATS Foundation is pleased to announce its new ATS Foundation/ResMed Research...

Managing chronic pain with light

Credit: Dhandapani et al., Nature Communications. Imagine that the movement of a single hair on your arm causes severe pain....

Removing the enablers: Reducing number of tumor-supporting cells to fight neuroblastoma

Credit: Valeria Solari, MD, MRCS; Children's Hospital Los Angeles Investigators at the Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases at...

Fifth Annual Science Day at NIH

In recognition of National Minority Health Month in April, the National Institutes of Health is hosting its fifth annual Science...

Doctors prescribe opioids at high rates to those at increased overdose risk

The number of first-time prescriptions for opioid drugs has not risen since about 2010, according to UCLA researchers. However, patients...

Prolonged acetaminophen use during pregnancy linked to increased ASD and ADHD risk

A study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds new light on the possible relationship between prolonged use of acetaminophen...

Sense of control and meaning helps protect women from anxiety

People who feel in control of their lives and who find purpose and meaning in life are less likely to...

Upswings in older-age cognitive ability may not be universal

A growing body of evidence indicates that rates of dementia may be declining, in part because older adults' cognitive abilities,...

Glowing contact lens could prevent a leading cause of blindness

Credit: Caltech Hundreds of millions of people suffer from diabetes worldwide, putting them at risk for a creeping blindness, or...

UNC scientists create better laboratory tools to study cancer’s spread

CHAPEL HILL - Cancer that has spread, or metastasized, from its original site to other tissues and organs in the...

Hippo pathway found essential to orchestrate the development of the heart

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Using a technology that provides a 'high-resolution view' of the status of individual cells, a...

Scientists generate an atlas of the human genome using stem cells

Credit: Azrieli Center for Stem Cells and Genetic Research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...

How do you get teens to stop cellphone use while driving? Survey says, show them the money

PHILADELPHIA - Teens who admit to texting while driving may be convinced to reduce risky cellphone use behind the wheel...

New mobile app addresses depression in pregnant and postpartum women

Credit: Bengisu Tulu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Mass. - A researcher at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has launched a mobile...

Liquid cell transmission electron microscopy makes a window into the nanoscale

Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory In a new paper published last week in Science Advances, a team of scientists and...

City College-bred fruit flies, parasites, in space odyssey

Credit: NASA Hurtling around Earth, at 17,500 mph some 248 miles in space, is a small swarm of City College...

Harvard’s Wyss Institute launches NuProbe to facilitate global precision medicine

Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University (BOSTON) -- NuProbe Global will commercialize the Wyss Institute's DNA nanotechnology-based variant-detecting method as...

The role of ‘extra’ DNA in cancer evolution and therapy resistance