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Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University A specially designed spectacle lens developed by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) was...

Evolution: Urban life leaves behind traces in the genome of bumblebees

Bumblebees living in the city have genes that differ from those of their relatives in the countryside. Although genetic differences...

Deep learning predicts drug-drug and drug-food interactions

Credit: KAIST A Korean research team from KAIST developed a computational framework, DeepDDI, that accurately predicts and generates 86 types...

Fatty fish and camelina oil are beneficial for your HDL and IDL cholesterol

Credit: UEF/Varpu Heiskanen Eating fatty fish increases the size and lipid composition of HDL particles in people with impaired glucose...

Unique protein is a vulnerability in the malaria parasite

Over a thousand people die from malaria every day. The disease is caused by a single-cell parasite (protozoan) that is...

Keeping the excitement under control

Credit: Jean-Sebastian Jouhanneau, MDC James Poulet's lab at the MDC uses advanced techniques to monitor the activity of networks of...

Improved method of delivering anti-cancer drugs

A new non-toxic method for delivering anti-cancer drugs to specific parts of the human body could mean the end of...

Study shows men and women tear ACL the same way in non-contact injury

Credit: Louis DeFrate/Duke University While women are two to four times more likely than men to tear the anterior cruciate...

Why don’t kids use their asthma medicines?

In a new analysis of interviews conducted with children who have asthma, their caregivers and their clinicians, Johns Hopkins researchers...

Direct electrical current used to preferentially inhibit pain-transmitting neurons

Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Using computer models and laboratory rats, Johns Hopkins researchers have demonstrated that "direct electrical current" can...

Engineering a better device to capture — and release — circulating tumor cells

Credit: iDreamMachine For years, bioengineer Yaling Liu has been in pursuit of the deadly tumor cell. Liu has been perfecting...

Overcoming bias about music takes work

Expectations and biases play a large role in our experiences. This has been demonstrated in studies involving art, wine and...

Active young adults with Type 1 diabetes have muscle complications: Study

Credit: York University News Toronto, ON (April 18, 2018) - A new study from McMaster and York universities has found...

Mayo Clinic study finds no evidence that anesthesia in young children lowers intelligence

ROCHESTER, Minn. - A Mayo Clinic study finds no evidence that children given anesthesia before their third birthdays have lower...

Low-income HIV patients suffer with healthcare access

Credit: MUHC Montreal, April 18, 2017-- Quebecers are not created equal when it comes to accessing anti-retroviral treatment (ART) for...

ALS treatment delays disease and extends life in rats

Credit: Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute LOS ANGELES (April 17, 2018) -- Investigators at Cedars-Sinai are exploring a...

Thinking about hitching a ride on a mission to Mars? One hazard you haven’t considered

Credit: NASA WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 17, 2018 -- The hazards of space flight are well known: freezing temperatures, the...

People who use medical marijuana more likely to use and misuse prescription drugs

April 17, 2018 - Can medical marijuana help to fight the opioid epidemic? Many believe that it can. But a...

OncoDNA announces publication of peer-reviewed study in Oncotarget assessing the utility of its unique biomarker analysis and interpretation platform in clinical decision making

Credit: Jean-François Laes, email: [email protected] Gosselies, Belgium - April 17, 2018: OncoDNA ("OncoDNA or "the Company"), the healthcare technology company...

Novel proteomics strategies aid cancer research