Chemical sensing chip sniffs out cocaine within minutes
Credit: Credit: Nan Zhang BUFFALO, N.Y. -- What if you could test for cocaine, opioids and marijuana as quickly as...
Protecting kidneys from obesity
Credit: Kris Kehe/UH College of Pharmacy UH professor of pharmacology Tahir Hussain has received $1.6M from the National Institutes of...
A new way to watch brain activity in action
Credit: Laboratory of Neurotechnology and Biophysics at The Rockefeller University It's a neuroscientist's dream: being able to track the millions...
Providing clinicians feedback on their Opioid prescribing data alters future prescribing
Credit: Kirsty Challen, B.Sc., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, United Kingdom. DES PLAINES, IL -- Asking emergency department (ED)...
Social context matters in spread of disease
Credit: Nick Keiser/Rice University HOUSTON - (May 7, 2018) - "Patient zero" isn't entirely to blame when an infection takes...
Are health regulations enough? Lung disease on the rise in mine workers
While on-the-job fatalities due to injuries and accidents have steadily decreased in nearly every industry in the U.S., the burden...
Chemical octopus catches sneaky cancer clues, trace glycoproteins
Credit: Georgia Tech / Wu / Xiao & NYPL Digital Commons / Brumfield Cancer drops sparse chemical hints of its...
Cedars-Sinai awarded $2.6 million to study depression in heart failure patients
LOS ANGELES (May 07, 2018) -- Cedars-Sinai investigators, led by Waguih William IsHak, MD,FAPA, professor of Psychiatry and vice chairman...
Stomata — the plant pores that give us life — arise thanks to a gene called MUTE
Credit: Soon-Ki Han/ Xingyun Qi Plants know how to do a neat trick. Through photosynthesis, they use sunlight and carbon...
Transistor fabrication onto curved surface means turn toward better diabetes therapy
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Transparent transistors fabricated onto the sharp curves of a tiny glass tube are paving the way toward...
A new connection between glucose and lipid regulation in cancer metabolism
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in China have identified an...
Building better beta peptides
Credit: Mark Del Borgo WASHINGTON, D.C., May 7, 2018 -- Designing bioscaffolds offers bioengineers greater flexibility when it comes to...
Understanding how DNA is selectively tagged with ‘do not use’ marks
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(MAY 7, 2018) Not all of your genome needs to be active at any given time....
AI detects patterns of gut microbes for cholera risk
Credit: Terra Communications DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers from Duke University, Massachusetts General Hospital and the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease...
Study discovers new molecular mechanism likely involved in cancer metastasis
Credit: Marlayna Demond for UMBC Cancer is most devastating when it metastasizes--when tumor cells break away, travel through the bloodstream,...
Study finds possibility of new ways to treat, manage epilepsy seizures
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 4, 2018) - New findings from the University of Kentucky published in the Journal of Neuroscience demonstrate...
New breakthrough paving the way for universal Ebola therapeutic
Credit: The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston GALVESTON, Texas -A new collaborative study has identified and studied Ebola...
Derfner Foundation funds novel research in regenerative medicine at Kessler Foundation
Credit: Kessler Foundation Kessler Foundation has received funding from the Derfner Foundation to support applying rehabilitation research to the area...
The effect of night shifts: Gene expression fails to adapt to new sleep patterns
Have you ever considered that working night shifts may, in the long run, have an impact on your health? A...
Precision medicine approvals and rare disease treatment incentives evaluated
WHO: Aaron Kesselheim, MD, MPH, Director, Program On Regulation Therapeutics And Law (PORTAL), Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Brigham and...
