Societies recommend policies to retain, increase ranks of ID physician scientists
Improved compensation, expanded mentorship and training opportunities, and concrete measures to improve workforce diversity are all needed to address attrition...
Healthy fat cells uncouple obesity from diabetes
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine About 422 million people around the world, including more than 30 million Americans, have diabetes....
Doctors may be able to enlist a mysterious enzyme to stop internal bleeding
Blood platelets are like the sand bags of the body. Got a cut? Platelets pile in to clog the hole...
Immune cells in the brain have surprising influence on sexual behavior
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Researchers have found a surprising new explanation of how young brains are shaped for sexual behavior later...
SMURF1 provides targeted approach to preventing cocaine addiction relapse
Credit: Douglas Levere, University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A class of proteins that has generated significant interest for its...
Magnetic gene in fish may someday help those with epilepsy, Parkinson’s
Credit: Galit Pelled and Assaf Gilad, Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. -- An aquarium fish that senses the Earth's...
Deaths from resident-to-resident incidents in dementia offers insights to inform policy
Credit: University of Minnesota Analyzing the incidents between residents in dementia in long-term care homes may hold the key to...
Inching closer to a soft spot in isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis
Credit: National Institutes of Health/NIH Image Gallery Antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis is a public health threat. TB and other bacteria become resistant...
MossRehab named top ten rehabilitation facility in nation
MossRehab, the renowned physical and cognitive rehabilitation arm of Einstein Healthcare Network, has again been named by U.S. News &...
Space-based tracker to give scientists a beyond-bird’s-eye-view of wildlife
Credit: Max Planck Institute for Ornithology New Haven, Conn. - The International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space, or ICARUS,...
Study: What patients really think about opioid vs non-opioid medications for chronic pain
Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS - Prescriptions of opioids for chronic pain has increased dramatically since the 1990s in spite of...
NIH study shows how MERS Coronavirus evolves to infect different species
Credit: NIAID WHAT: In the past 15 years, two outbreaks of severe respiratory disease were caused by coronaviruses transmitted from...
New approach to treating chronic itch
Two receptors in the spinal cord and the right experimental drug: Researchers at the University of Zurich have discovered a...
Researchers assemble ‘library of sugars’
Most of us tend to think of sugar as a temptation that threatens our health. The reality is, however, that...
USTC develops a family of bioinspired artificial woods by traditional resins
Credit: YU Shuhong Nature has provided us not only the fantastic materials, but also the inspiration for the design and...
Deep in the weeds: Using eDNA sequencing to survey pondweed diversity
Ecological surveys of biodiversity provide fundamental baseline information on species occurrence and the health of an ecosystem, but can require...
Generating DNA sequence data in the developing world
Credit: Campbell O. Webb Globally, biodiversity is concentrated around the equator, but the scientific institutions generating DNA sequence data to...
An ion channel differentiates newborn and mature neurons in the adult brain
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The dentate gyrus of the hippocampus is part of the brain that helps form memories....
Gips-Schüle Foundation funds new research group in Konstanz
(University of Konstanz) Collective behaviour and early career researcher Dr Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin begins her work as the first Gips-Schüle Junior...
Research may help rescue antibiotics’ effectiveness in the face of drug-resistant bacteria
BIDMC Research Briefs showcase groundbreaking scientific advances that are transforming medical care. Bacteria--especially Gram-negative strains--are becoming increasingly resistant to current...
