Conflict management improves ICU team knowledge, mindfulness and awareness
The intensive care unit is a stressful place, and conflicts invariably arise. To better understand the relationships between physicians, nurses,...
Case Western Reserve researchers to examine skin prions in fatal neurodegenerative disease
Credit: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Affecting both people and animals, prion diseases are degenerative brain disorders that...
UMass Amherst researchers plan to develop alternative energy source for muscle
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Muscle biophysicist Ned Debold in the kinesiology department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's...
Building a public library of bacteria to facilitate drug discovery research
Approximately $1.7 million in new funding from the National Institutes of Health will enable a multidisciplinary team of University of...
Gastric banding as effective as metformin in slowing prediabetes, type two diabetes
What People with prediabetes or new-onset type 2 diabetes who had gastric banding, a type of bariatric surgery for weight...
AI could predict cognitive decline leading to Alzheimer’s Disease in the next five years
A team of scientists has successfully trained a new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to make accurate predictions regarding cognitive decline...
Experts develop guide for getting more LTC residents immunized
A summit convened by The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) National Adult Vaccination Program (NAVP) has resulted in a roadmap...
Post-treatment surveillance frequency not related to improved lung cancer patient survival
CHICAGO (October 4, 2018): Cancer treatment continues to improve for many types of cancer, leading to increased life expectancy for...
Using personal data to predict blood pressure
Credit: UC San Diego Engineers at UC San Diego used wearable off-the-shelf technology and machine learning to predict, for the...
AI could predict cognitive decline leading to Alzheimer’s disease in the next 5 years
A team of scientists has successfully trained a new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to make accurate predictions regarding cognitive decline...
UM earns $10 million contract to develop universal flu vaccine
Credit: University of Montana MISSOULA - The National Institutes of Health have awarded a $10 million contract to the University...
Sequencing RNA in 20,000 Cardiac cells reveals insights into heart development and disease
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Scientists using a powerful new technology that sequences RNA in 20,000 individual cell nuclei have...
Facebook status: sick. How people use the internet to cope with illness
When a person is diagnosed with a serious illness, he or she may seek support from a variety of sources:...
First large study details cognitive outcomes among older breast cancer patients
WASHINGTON -- The first large U.S. study of cognition in older breast cancer patients found that within the first two...
BPS congratulates biophysicist Frances Arnold on her Nobel Prize
ROCKVILLE, MD - The Biophysical Society (BPS) commends Frances Arnold, California Institute of Technology, on her shared Nobel Prize in...
Arizona bioscience community honors two of TGen’s top scientists
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Oct. 3, 2018 -- Two top scientists from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of...
A novel molecule could spur new class of drugs for breast cancer
Credit: Stevens Institute of Technology Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology and colleagues have designed and developed a new class...
T cell bispecific antibody for the immune-mediated killing of HER2+ breast cancer cells
(Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology) Researchers at the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology in Barcelona show that the p95HER2-T cell...
Recording device for cell history
Different "events" such as infections by viruses, as well as the exposure to environmental toxins or other forms of stress,...
