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...
New movement monitoring system helping prevent falls in the elderly
Credit: University of South Florida ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (May 7, 2018)- Technology that allows BMW's assembly lines to run more...
Oilseed crop’s waste product yields compounds that protect skin from the sun
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Meadowfoam, a native Pacific Northwest plant cultivated as an oilseed crop, has emerged as a potential new...
UCalgary scientists discover a new way to battle multiple sclerosis
Credit: Cumming School of Medicine Ridiculous. That's how Andrew Caprariello says his colleagues described his theory about multiple sclerosis (MS)...
Women’s preference for masculine faces not linked with hormones
Credit: ©Jones et al Data from almost 600 participants show that women's perceptions of male attractiveness do not vary according...
Ontology-based surgical subtask automation, automating blunt dissection
Credit: World Scientific In a paper to be published in the Journal of Medical Robotics Research, a team of researchers...
