NRL issued patent for solar microbial fuel cell
Credit: (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory) WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, has...
How serious is binge drinking among college students with disabilities?
Los Angeles, CA (June 22, 2017) A new study finds that college students with disabilities binge drink more often than...
Paracetamol during pregnancy can inhibit masculinity
Paracetamol is popular for relieving pain. But if you are pregnant, you should think twice before popping these pills according...
Studies of US Lassa fever patient offer clues about immune response, viral persistence
When an American nurse working in West Africa became ill with Lassa fever and was evacuated to the U.S. for...
Secondhand smoke exposure among nonsmoking adult cancer survivors has declined
Bottom Line: From 1999/2000 to 2011/2012, exposure to secondhand smoke among nonsmoking adult cancer survivors declined from 39.6 percent to...
More guns now being purchased for self-defense than recreation
Ann Arbor, MI, June 22, 2017 - Although firearm violence kills or injures 100,000 Americans each year, most scientific research...
Biofilms — the eradication has begun
Credit: Brendan Snarr, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre Montreal, June 22 2017 - Have you ever heard...
First-line immunotherapy treatment can improve survival for subset of lung cancer patients
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Findings from a phase III clinical trial for advanced lung cancer patients could help oncologists better predict...
New antibody uses 1-2 punch to potentially treat blood cancers
Credit: © 2017 American Society of Hematology (WASHINGTON, June 15, 2017) -- Researchers have developed a two-pronged approach to blood...
The (extra) eyes have it
Your doctor is an expert with many years of experience. So when she tells you, upon reviewing all the fancy...
Underused cancer test could improve treatment for thousands
Underused cancer test could improve treatment for thousands, Mayo Clinic study finds ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A simple blood test could...
CASIS partnership brings ‘organs-on-chips’ research to space station
Credit: NASA Models of human disease are beneficial for medical research, but have limitations in predicting the way a drug...
CHLA launches OncoKidsSM – a comprehensive DNA and RNA pediatric cancer panel
Today, a team of investigators at Children's Hospital Los Angeles launched OncoKidsSM, a next-generation sequencing-based panel specifically designed for pediatric...
UV-sensing protein in the brain of a marine annelid zooplankton
Credit: INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE Researchers at Institute for Molecular Sciences reported that a photoreceptive protein expressed in the brain...
Scientists may have cracked rugby league’s code
JCU's Dr Carl Woods and colleagues looked at the performance indicators of winning and losing NRL teams. He says a...
HIV-positive women with cytomegalovirus likelier to pass virus that causes AIDS to infant
Credit: UCLA Health HIV-positive women with cytomegalovirus, or CMV, in their urine at the time of labor and delivery are...
African leopards revealed: Study documents minute-to-minute behavior of elusive cats
Credit: John Armstrong The elusive behavior of the African leopard has been revealed in great detail for the first time...
Analysis indicates that insurance expansion improves access to care, health, and survival
Boston, MA - There is strong evidence that expanding health insurance increases access to care, improves health in a variety...
U study finds recognition technology a step closer to use in courtroom
In most crime scenes, there is some information that is known only by investigators and the actual perpetrator. Only the...
New femto-camera with quadrillion fractions of a second resolution
Credit: ITMO University Researchers from ITMO University have built a setup for recording holograms of tiny objects like living cells...
