Hospital privacy curtains may harbor dangerous germs: New study
Arlington, Va., September 27, 2018 - Without timely intervention, privacy curtains in hospitals can become breeding grounds for resistant bacteria,...
Deaths of despair in the era of Donald Trump: The opioid epidemic is just part of the problem
September 27, 2018 -- Opioid-related deaths contributed to more than 60 000 U.S. lives lost in 2016 but absolute declines...
Dennis and Mireille Gillings Foundation donation unites funders for £1.35 million program
(Academy of Medical Sciences (UK)) The Academy of Medical Sciences is delighted to announce a pledge of £600,000 from the...
Center for BrainHealth gets $225K NIH grant to study cannabis use impact on motor learning
Credit: Center for BrainHealth The research lab at the Center for BrainHealth® led by Dr. Francesca M. Filbey, the Bert...
As Alzheimer’s numbers grow among Latinos, need for research grows too, say experts
Credit: UC San Diego Health The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has awarded scientists at University of California San Diego...
Join us for the AAO-HNSF 2018 Annual Meeting & OTO Experience
Join us in Atlanta, GA for the AAO-HNSF 2018 Annual Meeting & OTO Experience, October 7-10, 2018. Thousands of ear,...
Child Mind Institute researchers, colleagues release non-human primate brain imaging data
NEW YORK, NY (September 27, 2018) -An international team of researchers led by scientists at the Child Mind Institute has...
Bureau of Reclamation funds Upper Missouri River pallid sturgeon study
Credit: USGS Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman announced that Reclamation is providing $45,000 to the Montana Fish, Wildlife and...
Elusive stem cells could help repair damaged blood vessels
A unique source of stem cells in blood helps to build blood vessels in the growing embryo according to new...
New plants on the block: Taller species are taking over in a warming Arctic
Credit: Anne Bjorkman Frankfurt/ Leipzig, Germany, 26.09.2018. Until now, the Arctic tundra has been the domain of low-growing grasses and...
Bees’ medicine chest should include sunflower pollen, UMass Amherst study suggests
Credit: UMass Amherst/Jonathan Giacomini AMHERST, Mass. - A new study by Jonathan Giacomini and his former advisor, evolutionary ecologist Lynn...
UMass Amherst neuroscientists see clues to brain maturation in adolescent rats
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - One of the outstanding questions in neurodevelopment research has been identifying how connections in...
Berkeley evolutionary biologist wins Milner Centre Prize
Credit: University of Bath Evolutionary biologist Dr Alison Feder from University of California, Berkeley has been named winner of the...
Olfactory cells may act as ‘Trojan horse,’ carry anticancer therapy to deadly brain tumors
A special type of cell essential to the ability of olfactory neurons to regenerate may be genetically engineered to deliver...
Improving kidney function in older populations
Credit: University of Houston Mohammad Asghar, associate professor of pharmacology at the University of Houston, has been awarded $459,000 from...
Shaking the swarm
Credit: Credit: Jacob Peters, Orit Peleg/Harvard University If it's a bad idea to kick a hornet's nest, it's certainly a...
‘Paintable’ chemotherapy shrinks skin tumors in mice
Skin acts as the first line of defense against pathogens and other harmful material from outside the body. Yet this...
Milk protein shown to alleviate chemotherapy side effects
Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Patients undergoing cancer treatment confront a number of well-documented side effects. Chemotherapy and...
Invasive snakes ‘hitchhiking’ on planes
Credit: Professor Bryan Fry A team of international scientists has discovered why brown tree snakes have become one of the...
Novel method produces highest-ever signals for human embryonic stem cell detection
Credit: SUTD A new method developed by researchers at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) can potentially ensure patient...
