Criticism from parents affects how children’s brains respond to emotional information
Credit: Binghamton University, State University at New York BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Children of highly critical parents show less attention to...
Manipulated enzymes
Credit: © TU Graz TU Graz researchers managed for the first time ever to 'retrain' an enzyme to build ring-shaped...
Why are sight and sound out of sync?
The way we process sight and sound are curiously out of sync by different amounts for different people and tasks,...
Toxicant levels up to 99 percent less in myblu aerosols compared to cigarette smoke
Credit: ©Fontem Ventures B.V. Kallithea, Greece, June 11th 2018 - A new aerosol chemistry study presented on Saturday at the...
MD Anderson Therapeutics Discovery team identifies and advances a drug that targets metabolic vulnerability and impairs cancer cell growth and survival
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON - A drug discovered and advanced by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer...
Safety protocol breaches: ways to prevent infection transmission in health care setting
The medical community is losing its biggest gun in fighting infection, antibiotics. Researchers are turning to safety protocols to reduce...
Reviving the protector: new tactic against medulloblastoma
Scientists have a new tactic with potential for fighting medulloblastoma, the most common and most aggressive form of brain tumor...
‘Surgery in a pill’ a potential treatment for diabetes
Credit: Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA -- Over the last decade, bariatric surgeons have made strides in performing weight...
New target for treating heart failure identified by Penn Medicine researchers
Credit: Ben Prosser, Ph.D., Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA - Changes in cellular struts called microtubules (MT)...
Genome-editing tool could increase cancer risk
Therapeutic use of gene editing with the so-called CRISPR-Cas9 technique may inadvertently increase the risk of cancer, according to a...
Prostate cancer DNA test identifies men with six-fold increased risk
A major new study of more than 140,000 men has identified 63 new genetic variations in the DNA code that...
Scientists watch bacteria ‘harpoon’ DNA to speed their evolution
Credit: Ankur Dalia, Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University scientists have made the first direct observation of a key...
Penn Medicines Garret FitzGerald M.D. FRS elected to the German National Academy of Sciences
PHILADELPHIA -- Garret FitzGerald, MD, FRS, a professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics at the Perelman School of Medicine...
Negative emotions are murkier, less distinct in adolescence
Adolescents don't distinguish between negative emotions as clearly as younger children and adults in their 20s do, according to findings...
Double-checking diabetes medications may reduce re-hospitalizations
Clinicians may take upwards of 15 minutes to double-check a patient's medication list in an electronic health record system, but...
American sign language and English language learners: New linguistic research supports the need for policy changes
(Washington, DC) - A new study of the educational needs of students who are native users of American Sign Language...
Millennials: Bet for the future
A 'Soviet person' is becoming a phenomenon of the past. Social change is being driven by people who came of...
Transatlantic clinical trial for neuroblastoma is open in UK — US and Germany to open soon
Credit: Solving Kids' Cancer June 11, 2018 - NEW YORK - Band of Parents, Joining Against Cancer in Kids (J-A-C-K),...
World’s largest library of biomedical images and animations gifted to Texas engineering
Credit: Blausen/UT Cockrell School of Engineering The most comprehensive collection of biomedical and scientific visual aids ever produced has a...
Algorithm predicts dangerous low blood pressure during surgery
CHICAGO - Scientists have developed an algorithm that predicts potentially dangerous low blood pressure, or hypotension, that can occur during...
