Artificial leaf as mini-factory for medicine
Credit: Bart van Overbeeke Using sunlight for sustainable and cheap production of, for example, medicines. The 'mini-factory' in the form...
Flavins keep a handy helper in their pocket
Credit: Source: Robin Teufel, Raspudin Saleem-Batcha In human cells, vitamins often serve as the precursors of "cofactors" - non-proteins which...
Stem cells from adults function just as well as those from embryos
Donor age does not appear to influence the functionality of stem cells derived from adult body tissues, concludes a new...
Scientists unearth vital link between fat, immunity and heat regulation
Credit: Lydia Lynch, Trinity College Dublin Scientists have just made a surprising discovery involving fat and special immune cells that...
A non-coding RNA lasso catches proteins in breast cancer cells
Credit: Evgenia Ntini A Danish-German research team has shown that not only the where and when of long non-coding RNA...
ESCEO-IOF Pierre Meunier Young Scientist Award presented to Dr. Emmanuel Biver
Emmanuel Biver MD, PhD, of the Division of Bone Diseases Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine has been presented...
Music lessens pain and anxiety in patients undergoing surgery
Music can reduce the anxiety and pain of invasive surgery, according to an analysis of all relevant randomized controlled trials...
Commonly prescribed heartburn drug linked to pneumonia in older adults
Researchers at the University of Exeter have found a statistical link between pneumonia in older people and a group of...
Technology used to map Mars now measuring effect of treatment on tumors
Credit: Paul Tar A machine learning approach for assessing images of the craters and dunes of Mars, which was developed...
What if you could know that your mild cognitive impairment wouldn’t progress
(IOS Press) Researchers from the Lisbon School of Medicine, University of Lisbon found that, in some mild cognitive impairment patients,...
Aging: The natural stress reliever for many women
ANN ARBOR -- While some research suggests that midlife is a dissatisfying time for women, other studies show that women...
Significant advances detected in knowledge about renal cancer
Credit: Ed Uthman Cell, the most prestigious international journal in the field of biology, is today publishing a set of...
Heart disease may only be a matter of time for those with healthy obesity
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - April 24, 2018 - People who are 30 pounds or more overweight may want to slim down...
Five ways to help cancer patients avoid the emergency room
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Unnecessary emergency department visits and hospitalizations are debilitating for patients with cancer and far too...
Natural barcodes enable better cell tracking
Each of us carries in our genomes about 10 million genetic variations called single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which represent a...
Reconstructing what makes us tick
Credit: Roland S. Zimmermann WASHINGTON, D.C., April 24, 2018 -- Cardiac arrhythmia results when the usual symphony of electric pulses...
Effect of a home-based exercise program with wearable activity monitor, telephone coaching on walking endurance for peripheral artery disease
Bottom Line: A home-based exercise program that consisted of a wearable activity monitor and telephone coaching to promote walking by...
Use of 2 anti-clotting medications following bypass surgery improves outcomes for grafted veins
Bottom Line: Taking aspirin plus an anti-clotting medication for one year after heart bypass surgery resulted in less narrowing of...
Future wearable device could tell how we power human movement
Credit: Renee Meiller/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- For athletes and weekend warriors alike, returning from a tendon injury too soon often...
Surgery recovery program slashes opioid use, benefits patients, cuts costs, study finds
Credit: UVA Health System A special recovery program for thoracic surgery patients developed and implemented at the University of Virginia...
