Watch your step: How vision leads locomotion
Credit: Photo by Michelle Chiou Using new technologies to track how vision guides foot placement, researchers at The University of...
New study shows prenatal cannabis use associated with low birth weights
AURORA, Colo. (April 23, 2018) - With marijuana use during pregnancy on the rise, a new study led by the...
Dementia trend shows later onset with fewer years of the disease
Credit: UT Health San Antonio SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- The diagnosis is one that a family never wants to hear:...
Johns Hopkins performs first total penis and scrotum transplant in the world
Credit: Devon Stuart for Johns Hopkins Medicine Many soldiers returning from combat bear visible scars, or even lost limbs, caused...
BU medical student receives student fellowship from Alpha Omega Alpha
(Boston)--Melissa Chua, a fourth-year medical student at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), has received the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA)...
New cell therapy aids heart recovery — without implanting cells
Credit: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic/Columbia Engineering New York, NY -- April 23, 2018 -- Heart disease is a major global health problem--myocardial...
Study highlights need for strength training in older women to ward off effects of aging
Credit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Regular physical activity may help older women increase their mobility, but muscle strength...
Cigarillo packaging can influence product perception, study finds
CHAPEL HILL - Text and pictorial warnings about the health effects of little cigars and cigarillos didn't fully curtail the...
Special series examines the use of pasteurized donor human milk for vulnerable infants
While the health effects of breastfeeding are well-recognized and apply to both mothers and children, some mothers may not be...
The role of ‘extra’ DNA in cancer evolution and therapy resistance
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer. Response to standard-of-care treatment is poor, with a...
Harvard’s Wyss Institute launches NuProbe to facilitate global precision medicine
Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University (BOSTON) -- NuProbe Global will commercialize the Wyss Institute's DNA nanotechnology-based variant-detecting method as...
City College-bred fruit flies, parasites, in space odyssey
Credit: NASA Hurtling around Earth, at 17,500 mph some 248 miles in space, is a small swarm of City College...
Liquid cell transmission electron microscopy makes a window into the nanoscale
Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory In a new paper published last week in Science Advances, a team of scientists and...
New mobile app addresses depression in pregnant and postpartum women
Credit: Bengisu Tulu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Mass. - A researcher at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has launched a mobile...
How do you get teens to stop cellphone use while driving? Survey says, show them the money
PHILADELPHIA - Teens who admit to texting while driving may be convinced to reduce risky cellphone use behind the wheel...
Scientists generate an atlas of the human genome using stem cells
Credit: Azrieli Center for Stem Cells and Genetic Research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...
Hippo pathway found essential to orchestrate the development of the heart
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Using a technology that provides a 'high-resolution view' of the status of individual cells, a...
UNC scientists create better laboratory tools to study cancer’s spread
CHAPEL HILL - Cancer that has spread, or metastasized, from its original site to other tissues and organs in the...
Glowing contact lens could prevent a leading cause of blindness
Credit: Caltech Hundreds of millions of people suffer from diabetes worldwide, putting them at risk for a creeping blindness, or...
Upswings in older-age cognitive ability may not be universal
A growing body of evidence indicates that rates of dementia may be declining, in part because older adults' cognitive abilities,...
