C-Path, CHDI and CDISC announce therapeutic area user guide for Huntington’s Disease
TUCSON, Ariz., NEW YORK and AUSTIN, Texas, November 1, 2018 -- The Huntington's Disease Regulatory Science Consortium (HD-RSC), launched in...
eDNA emerges as powerful tool for tracking threatened river herring in Chesapeake Bay
CAMBRIDGE, MD (November 1, 2018)--Using environmental DNA (eDNA) to track the presence of fish in waterways is emerging as a...
NASA expert to discuss interstellar space travel at the Optical Society Laser Congress
WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 1 -- New directed energy propulsion systems may enable the first interstellar missions, with small, robotic spacecraft...
Renowned forum on software engineering brings together top researchers and industry leaders
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT) will present the joint...
Army scientist seeks enhanced soldier systems through quantum research
Credit: U.S. Army photo Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the Joint Quantum Institute have created a pristine...
Improving additive manufacturing for space missions
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering/ANSYS AMRL PITTSBURGH (November 1, 2018) ... Additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, presents a game-changing...
New images show serotonin activating its receptor for first time
Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Serotonin (3A) receptors are common drug targets in the treatment of pain,...
Take a lot of sick days? Who you know and where you live might be partly to blame
New research led by Lijun Song, associate professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University, and graduate student Phillip Pettis suggests that...
How to stay healthy and happy through the decades
Credit: Martin Monti/UCLA Successful aging can be the norm, says UCLA psychology professor Alan Castel in his new book, "Better...
New study offers hope for patients suffering from a rare form of blindness
Credit: Duke Neurology A new form of therapy may halt or even reverse a form of progressive vision loss that,...
Three Endocrine Society members named to National Clinical Care Commission
WASHINGTON--Three Endocrine Society members have been appointed to the National Clinical Care Commission. The Commission will evaluate and provide recommendations...
National Psoriasis Foundation awards over $2 million in research grants and fellowships
Portland, Ore. (November 1, 2018)--The National Psoriasis Foundation, NPF, has awarded $2.3 million in research grants and fellowships in 2018....
We all want ‘healthy aging,’ but what is it, really? New report looks for answers
Credit: (C) 2018, American Geriatrics Society "Healthy aging" sounds like a priority we all can share, but for geriatrics healthcare...
UA professor receives grant for innovative research in preventing heart failure
Credit: Tabbitha Mosier, UA College of Medicine - Phoenix A University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix researcher has...
Quit rates are low and not increasing among cigarette smokers with mental health problems
(NEW YORK) November 1, 2018--Even as more and more American quit smoking cigarettes, individuals with serious psychological distress (SPD) are...
Drug combination for treatment resistant depression no more effective than single
Psychiatrists and GPs increasingly combine mirtazapine with an SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) or SNRI (serotonin-noradenaline reuptake inhibitor) antidepressant for...
Drexel researcher to study how California’s changing cannabis laws affect young adults
A Drexel University-led research project aimed at studying the health and behavioral effects of medical marijuana use for young adults...
Study finds tennis elbow treatments provide little to no benefit
BOSTON - The painful condition known as "tennis elbow" results from overuse of the tendons in the forearm, typically in...
Children who experience violence early in life develop faster
Philadelphia, November 1, 2018 - A study in Biological Psychiatry has shown that exposure to violence early in life -...
People with Internet addiction react the worst when WiFi fails
London, November 1, 2018 Do you get frustrated and angry when your WiFi connection stops working? It could be because...
