Study highlights diversity of arthropods found in US homes — From swabs of dust
Credit: Anne A. Madden, with the assistance from Robert Mcgugan at the University of Colorado, Boulder Nanomaterials Characterization Facility. False-coloring...
Bacteria can’t get a grip on self-healing, slippery surface
BOSTON - Implanted medical devices like catheters, surgical mesh and dialysis systems are ideal surfaces on which bacteria can colonize...
Hospital readmission history a valid measure of skilled nursing quality
PROVIDENCE, R.I. --When an elderly loved one is discharged from a hospital to a skilled nursing facility (SNF), the family's...
Brown researchers developing new interactive sleep app
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- There are plenty of cellphone apps on the market designed to help people monitor their sleep patterns....
Study finds mild exercise helps decrease pain and improve activity level in older adults
Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery It's never too late to reap the benefits of exercise, and that includes older adults...
Stimulating the brain makes exercising the legs feel easier
Credit: University of Kent Research led by the University of Kent shows stimulation of the brain impacts on endurance exercise...
HybPiper: A bioinformatic pipeline for processing target-enrichment data
With the rapid rise of next-generation sequencing technologies, disparate fields from cancer research to evolutionary biology have seen a drastic...
U-M study bodes well for low-carb eaters
ANN ARBOR--Three low-carb meals within 24 hours lowers post-meal insulin resistance by more than 30 percent, but high-carb meals sustain...
Moving toward a gold standard in patient handoff protocols
You're in the hospital under around-the-clock care for whatever it is that ails you. During any 24-hour period, your physicians...
Could a cannabinoid pill treat concussion?
Credit: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine The goal of finding a treatment for concussion may be one step...
New discovery could help oral medicines work better
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (11/01/16) -- A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota and The Dow Chemical Company have discovered...
Toronto Climathon results in surprising solutions to transport emissions
Credit: @wonrobot / Twitter During the Toronto Climathon, a 24-hour marathon session in downtown Toronto, students, entrepreneurs, big thinkers, technical...
NREL researchers discover how a bacterium, Clostridium thermocellum, utilizes both CO2 and cellulose
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) made the surprise discovery that a metabolic pathway...
Creating a slippery slope on the surface of medical implants
(Boston)--Implanted medical devices such as left ventricular-assist devices for patients with heart failure or other support systems for patients with...
Scientists prove how genetics change behavior by studying worms’ foraging strategies
Credit: Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior at The Rockefeller University/Nature "Organisms pay attention to what other members of their...
Results from the PARTNER I FIVE YEAR ECHO study presented at TCT 2016
WASHINGTON - November 2, 2016 - A substudy of the PARTNER I Trial and Continued Access Registry found that hemodynamic...
US Food and Drug Administration awards Critical Path Institute three grants, one contract
Tucson, November 1, 2016--The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded Critical Path Institute (C-Path) three grants to develop...
Fruits and vegetables may slow ALS
October 31, 2016--New research at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health reveals that foods like fruits and vegetables that...
Underwater mushrooms: Curious lake fungi under every turned over stone
Credit: Christian Wurzbacher While fungi are well known for being essential in cycling carbon and nutrients, there are only about...
The French-Canadian connection
Credit: Shawn Hayward Scientists have identified a gene in the French-Canadian population that predisposes them to the development of intracranial...