Four weeks to prepare cancer patients for surgery
Just four weeks of prehabilitation may be enough to help some cancer patients get in shape for surgery. That's according...
NEOMED researchers identify link between brain and bone in Alzheimer’s disease
ROOTSTOWN, OH--Researchers at NEOMED have just identified a major connection between areas of the brainstem - the ancient area that...
Experts argue it’s time to stop using bite marks in forensics
Researchers are increasingly skeptical about the validity of bite-mark identification as trial evidence. A new paper in Journal of Law...
IUPUI chemists develop new technique that could speed drug development
Credit: Whitney Walker, School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS -- Synthesizing useful new compounds is what pharmaceutical...
New findings boost promise of molybdenum sulfide for hydrogen catalysis
Researchers from North Carolina State University, Duke University and Brookhaven National Laboratory have found that molybdenum sulfide (MoS2) holds more...
Tangled threads weave through cosmic oddity
Credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble, A. Fabian New observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the intricate structure of the...
Northern Ohio institutions become laboratories for future energy usage
Credit: Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University, NASA Glenn Research Center and the University of Toledo will serve...
Einstein and Penn State researchers awarded $12.2 million to study Alzheimer’s disease
December 1, 2016 -- (BRONX, NY) --The National Institutes of Health has awarded researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine...
Research team discovers a pathogen’s motility triggers immune response
Credit: Rada Lab/by Madison Floyd Until now, a pathogen's ability to move through the body has been overlooked as a...
New in the Hastings Center Report
Ethics of crowdfunding for medical care, an argument for fewer clinical trials, and more in the November-December 2016 issue. Crowdfunding...
ACS and Surgical Infection Society announce guidelines for prevention, treatment of SSIs
CHICAGO (December 1, 2016): Newly released guidelines for the prevention, detection, and management of surgical site infections (SSIs) issued by...
ANU demonstrates ‘ghost imaging’ with atoms
Credit: ANU A team of physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) have used a technique known as 'ghost imaging'...
Improving the mechanical properties of polymer gels through molecular design
Credit: Yukikazu Takeoka Nagoya, Japan - A polymer gel consists of a three-dimensional cross-linked polymer network swollen with liquid molecules....
People matter
An interdisciplinary study released this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of...
Can creativity beat death? New study suggests creatives worry less about dying
Creative achievement can provide a buffer against being anxious about death, research from psychologists at the University of Kent shows....
Correlates of overweight and obesity among adolescents with bipolar disorder in the National Comorbidity Survey — Adolescent Supplement
Washington, DC, December 1, 2016 - Bipolar disorder is one of the most disabling medical conditions among adolescents worldwide. Similarly,...
CRISPR editing in pancreatic cells reduced cell death and increased insulin secretion
With the help of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene scissors, researchers at Lund University Diabetes Centre in Sweden have managed to "turn...
UA receives $1.5 million to study cancer in firefighters
Credit: Tucson Fire Department TUCSON, Ariz. - Researchers at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public...
Efficient catalysts key to turning water into fuel
While it is already scientifically possible to split water in this way, highly efficient catalysts like this are the key...
Perovskite solar cells hit new world efficiency record
Credit: Rob Largent/UNSW They're flexible, cheap to produce and simple to make - which is why perovskites are the hottest...