Researchers report new way to make dissolving electronics
Credit: University of Houston Researchers from the University of Houston and China have reported a new type of electronic device...
Scientific study review presents health promoting potential of mangoes
Orlando, FL (September 6, 2017) - Research continually unveils new insights about mangos and their role in the diet for...
CBD may protect against psychiatric risk from high-THC cannabis strains
Credit: Ben Mills BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A study reported Sept. 5 by neuroscientists at Indiana University finds that a non-psychoactive...
NJIT EDC company develops augmented reality system for HAZMAT training
A technology company in NJIT's Enterprise Development Center has developed an augmented reality system that trains emergency responders how to...
A touch of EroS
Credit: Arielle Woznica/King lab Sometimes scientific experiments take an unexpected turn. Researchers interested in the evolution of multicellular life were...
A decade later, older Americans are still going hungry
URBANA, Ill. - Hunger does not respect age. A recent report comparing data from 2007 to 2015 finds 5.4 million...
Increasing effective decision-making for coastal marine ecosystems
Credit: Mark Priest Marine restoration, rather than protection, might be the most cost-effective solution for coastal marine ecosystems suffering from...
How monkey fights grow
Credit: A.J. Haverkamp How does conflict spread through a society? One way to think of conflict spreading is to picture...
Investigating the mechanisms of metastasis
Credit: Children's Hospital Los Angeles Cancer metastasis - the spread of disease from the original site to a distant organ...
FDG-PET/CT predicts melanoma patients’ response to immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy
Credit: SY Cho, EJ Lipson, H Im, et al., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD RESTON, Va. -...
Outreach interventions improve colorectal cancer screening
Outreach and notification to patients and physicians improved colorectal cancer (CRC) screening among patients who were not up-to-date or nonadherent...
How to implement Advance Care Planning for patients
Credit: Lancaster University Emeritus Professor Sheila Payne from the International Observatory on End of Life Care at Lancaster University helped...
MIRO trial: 3-year outcomes favor laparoscopic surgery for esophageal cancer
LUGANO-MADRID, 05 September, 2017 - Patients requiring surgery for oesophageal cancer fare better after undergoing a hybrid minimally invasive oesophagectomy...
Recurrence of prostate cancer could be reduced thanks to exciting new discovery
Ground breaking research could reduce the recurrence of prostate cancer in males, a new study in the journal Nature Communications...
Zika virus could be used to treat brain cancer patients, study suggests
Credit: Zhu et al., 2017 Recent outbreaks of Zika virus have revealed that the virus causes brain defects in unborn...
Children with bone, joint infection often carry the same infectious bacteria in throat
The presence of the bacterium Kingella kingae in children's throats was strongly linked to bone and joint infection with the...
Insects can see the world in much finer resolution than previously thought
Insects have much better vision and can see in far greater detail than previously thought, a new study from the...
Blood is thicker than water for the common reed — At least that’s what the soil tells us
In a paper published in Nature Communications, Northeastern University Professor Jennifer Bowen and University of Rhode Island Professor Laura Meyerson...
Hop, skip, run, leap: Unpredictability boosts survival for bipedal desert rodents
ANN ARBOR--Sometimes it pays to be unpredictable. A new study shows that when bipedal desert rodents called jerboas are being...
The STING of death in T cells
The cells of the innate immune system use a signaling pathway comprising STING (Stimulator of interferon genes) to detect DNA...
