Overcoming bias about music takes work
Expectations and biases play a large role in our experiences. This has been demonstrated in studies involving art, wine and...
Engineering a better device to capture — and release — circulating tumor cells
Credit: iDreamMachine For years, bioengineer Yaling Liu has been in pursuit of the deadly tumor cell. Liu has been perfecting...
Direct electrical current used to preferentially inhibit pain-transmitting neurons
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Using computer models and laboratory rats, Johns Hopkins researchers have demonstrated that "direct electrical current" can...
Why don’t kids use their asthma medicines?
In a new analysis of interviews conducted with children who have asthma, their caregivers and their clinicians, Johns Hopkins researchers...
Study shows men and women tear ACL the same way in non-contact injury
Credit: Louis DeFrate/Duke University While women are two to four times more likely than men to tear the anterior cruciate...
Improved method of delivering anti-cancer drugs
A new non-toxic method for delivering anti-cancer drugs to specific parts of the human body could mean the end of...
Keeping the excitement under control
Credit: Jean-Sebastian Jouhanneau, MDC James Poulet's lab at the MDC uses advanced techniques to monitor the activity of networks of...
Unique protein is a vulnerability in the malaria parasite
Over a thousand people die from malaria every day. The disease is caused by a single-cell parasite (protozoan) that is...
Fatty fish and camelina oil are beneficial for your HDL and IDL cholesterol
Credit: UEF/Varpu Heiskanen Eating fatty fish increases the size and lipid composition of HDL particles in people with impaired glucose...
Deep learning predicts drug-drug and drug-food interactions
Credit: KAIST A Korean research team from KAIST developed a computational framework, DeepDDI, that accurately predicts and generates 86 types...
Evolution: Urban life leaves behind traces in the genome of bumblebees
Bumblebees living in the city have genes that differ from those of their relatives in the countryside. Although genetic differences...
Spectacle lens designed by PolyU slows myopic progression by 60 percent
Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University A specially designed spectacle lens developed by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) was...
Revisiting existing drugs finds molecules that control body clocks
Credit: ITbM, Nagoya University Using drug repurposing, a team of researchers led by animal biologists at Nagoya University has discovered...
Frontiers in Anatomy: Anatomy for Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology
Credit: Dr. Plauto Christopher Aranha Watanabe, Bentham Science Publishers Anatomical studies of the skull, face bones and teeth are complex...
World-first research into injury rates among people released from prison
Centre for Mental Health Research Fellow Mr Jesse Young led a study that identified hospital records for 1307 people released...
Jeffrey H. Samet, M.D., F.A.C.P., honored with national award from American College of Physicians
Philadelphia, 2017 -- Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, MA, MPH, FACP, has been awarded the American College of Physicians (ACP) Richard...
Development of a quantitative pharmacodynamic assay for apoptosis in fixed tumor tissue
Credit: Oncotarget Existing microscopy-based methods of detecting apoptosis, such as TUNEL (terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick-end labeling), have limited quantitative...
Safety measures could save 250,000 lives a year in low- and middle-income countries
Interventions such as speeding enforcement and formal swimming lessons for young children could potentially save more than 250,000 lives a...
Why is it harder for females to gain weight?
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine For years, scientists have observed that when male and female mice eat the same high-fat...
Detailed images of tumor vasculature
The new technology has been developed jointly by teams headed by Prof Dr Georg Schmitz at the Chair for Medical...
