Emergency department patients want to be invited to share in medical decision-making
DES PLAINES, IL--Most emergency department patients want to be involved in some aspects of medical decision-making, but they need to...
Rhesus macaque model offers route to study Zika brain pathology
Rhesus macaque monkeys infected in utero with Zika virus develop similar brain pathology to human infants, according to a report...
DNA barcodes that reliably work: A game-changer for biomedical research
Credit: Richard Wheeler (Zephyris). Used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. In the same way that barcodes on your...
American Psychological Association’s 126th Annual Convention Aug. 9 – 12, 2018, San Francisco
The American Psychological Association's 126th annual convention will take place Aug. 9-12, 2018, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco....
New ‘e-dermis’ brings sense of touch, pain to prosthetic hands
Credit: Science Robotics/AAAS Amputees often experience the sensation of a "phantom limb"--a feeling that a missing body part is still...
IASLC issues statement paper on liquid biopsy for lung cancer
DENVER - The lungs can be a difficult organ to biopsy with a needle, so the promise of identifying lung...
ESA announces the recipients of the 2017 Student Awards
Credit: Michel T. Kohl June 19, 2018 For Immediate Release Contact: Zoe Gentes, 202-833-8773 ext. 211, [email protected]">[email protected] The Ecological Society...
Pediatric cancer diagnosis comes of age at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Credit: Photo courtesy of Michelle's family "We thought she had a bug bite," says Michelle's mom, "but it turned out...
Preeminent cancer biologist Brian Druker, M.D., receives international science award
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Director Brian J. Druker, M.D., has been awarded the 2018 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science for...
Risks of cancer and mortality by average lifetime alcohol intake
Credit: Free-Photos, Pixabay The risk of mortality, and of developing a number of cancers, is lowest in light drinkers consuming...
Ocean’s heat cycle shows that atmospheric carbon may be headed elsewhere
As humans continue to pump the atmosphere with carbon, it's crucial for scientists to understand how and where the planet...
D for danger! Speech sounds convey emotions
Credit: Paolo Tonato Individual speech sounds - phonemes - are statistically associated with negative or positive emotions in several languages,...
Game-changing finding pushes 3D-printing to the molecular limit
Credit: Victor Sans Sangorrin The research, led by Dr Victor Sans Sangorrin from the Faculty of Engineering and Dr Graham...
Museum collection reveals distribution of Carolina parakeet 100 years after its extinction
Credit: Huub Veldhuijzen van Zanten/Naturalis Biodiversity Center While 2018 marks the centenary of the death of the last captive Carolina...
Is the sky the limit?
Credit: Polechová All species have restricted distributions. Yet a joint coherent theory explaining the span and borders of species' ranges...
Responses of the tropical atmospheric circulation to climate change
Credit: Ma et al. The tropical circulation change under global warming arises great attention around the world in recent decades....
Army plans to license nanogalvanic aluminum powder discovery
Credit: US Army photo by David McNally ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (June 19, 2018) - The U.S. Army Research Laboratory...
Light pollution a reason for insect decline
Credit: Gabriel Singer/IGB Climate change, pesticides and land use changes alone cannot fully explain the decline in insect populations in...
Study: Climate action can limit Asia’s growing water shortages
Even "modest" action to limit climate change could help prevent the most extreme water-shortage scenarios facing Asia by the year...
UH scientist working toward a glaucoma cure
Credit: University of Houston UH College of Optometry biomedical engineer Vijaykrishna Raghunathan has received $765,000 from the National Institutes of...
