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Credit: KTU A team of researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) have designed a device for measuring pressure on...

Quantifying lower limb muscle weakness in Osteogenesis Imperfecta type IV

Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) is a heritable disorder characterized by increased bone fragility. In OI Type IV muscle weakness has important...

A new bird which humans drove to extinction discovered in Azores

Credit: Pau Oliver Inside the crater of a volcano on Graciosa Island in the Azores archipelago, in the Atlantic Ocean,...

Research at Lake Baikal — for the protection of a unique ecosystem

Credit: V. Pavlichenko, ISU Lake Baikal formed between 25 and 30 million years ago and contains around 20 per cent...

Studies help understand why some people are so sure they’re right

Dogmatic individuals hold confidently to their beliefs, even when experts disagree and evidence contradicts them. New research from Case Western...

UAlberta and McGill scientists uncover a hidden calcium cholesterol connection

Credit: Melissa Fabrizio (Edmonton) It's well known that calcium is essential for strong bones and teeth, but new research shows...

Investigation tests new methods of water recycling in space

Credit: NASA Sometimes the best solution to a complex problem is the simplest one. That's the approach that the Capillary...

This week from AGU: Researchers uncover 200-year-old sunspot drawings in Maine

American Geophysical Union 26 July 2017 This week from AGU: Researchers uncover 200-year-old sunspot drawings in Maine ** Access a...

Company innovates by using magnetic resonance to evaluate food quality

The applications and benefits of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in medicine are well known, but the technology is also used...

New grant supports comprehensive research on traumatic brain injury

Credit: Nick Dentamaro / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- With a new $4.75 million grant from the Office of Naval...

University of Rochester awarded $19 million to coordinate national science program

The University of Rochester has been awarded $19 million from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the...

NUS scientists identify optimal areas for conservation and agriculture in the tropics

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has recently completed a global study on the trade-offs...

Novel thermal ablation system for transdermal drug delivery

July 27, 2017

Credit: Professor Takuro Niidome Many diseases are treated with protein-based drugs. However, due to the size of the molecules, the...

Shedding light deeper into the human brain

Credit: Texas A&M University The inner workings of the human brain have always been a subject of great interest. Unfortunately,...

CU Cancer Center study may explain failure of retinoic acid trials against breast cancer

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Estrogen-positive breast cancers are often treated with anti-estrogen therapies. But about half of these...

Scientists identify gene mutations in smoking-related cancers

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - July 25, 2017 - African-Americans typically have worse outcomes from smoking-related cancers than Caucasians, but the reasons...

Results of NRG-RTOG 0436 highlight need for biomarkers in treatment of esophageal cancer

PHILADELPHIA, PA -- NRG-RTOG 0436 has determined that adding an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor to a chemo-radiation regimen...

Shedding light on cause of resistance to tumor immunotherapy

In tumor immunotherapy, the body's own defense system is activated against the tumor cells. However, for the majority of patients,...

Americans say discussions about clinical trials should be part of standard of care

Arlington, Va. - July 25, 2017 - An overwhelming majority of Americans (86%) agree that health care professionals should discuss...

Physical activity could combat fatigue, cognitive decline in cancer survivors