Simple step to protect people with type 1 diabetes against heart disease
One additional injection of insulin three hours after eating has been shown to protect people with type 1 diabetes from...
First ever single guidance published for investigating and managing nut allergy
New comprehensive guidance for the diagnosis and management of peanut and tree nut allergy has been developed, which for the...
BABYLUX: The light that brightens the lives of premature babies
Credit: Fondazione Politecnico di Milano In January 2014 - ICFO and ICFO spin-off Hemophotonics joined together with seven other European...
New clinical data demonstrate safety and tolerability of activated B. infantis
Evolve BioSystems, Inc., a microbiome company committed to developing novel solutions to restore and maintain a healthy newborn gut microbiome,...
Antibiotic overuse in children could be reduced with improved communication
To help reduce unnecessary use of antibiotics for common childhood illnesses, parents would benefit from fuller communication from their health...
CRISPR tech leads to new screening tool for Parkinson’s disease
Credit: UCF, College of Medicine A team of researchers at the University of Central Florida is using breakthrough gene-editing technology...
NUS researchers pilot ‘Home-but-not Alone’ app to help new parents
Credit: National University of Singapore A research team led by Assistant Professor Shefaly Shorey from the Alice Lee Centre for...
Staphyloccus ribosome structure researched by KFU Structural Biology Lab
The results were published in Nucleic Acids Research. This paper was announced as the best of May 2017 by FSBMB....
Artificial fluorescent membrane lipid shows active role in living cells
Credit: (c) 2017 Kinoshita M. et al. Journal of Cell Biology. VOL:216 NO:4 1183-1204. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201607086 Osaka, Japan - Biological...
First long-term study of Murray-Darling Basin wetlands reveals severe impact of dams
Credit: UNSW A landmark 30-year-long UNSW Sydney study of wetlands in eastern Australia has found that construction of dams and...
Citizen scientists help infectious bacteria researchers
A team of UK based researchers, known as the ENIGMA Project, has developed a novel method for assessing human/virus interactions...
Dasatinib excels in worldwide phase II trial against pediatric CML
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center In 2002, the FDA approved the drug imatinib as a first-line therapy for adults...
CONNECT registry shows only 9 percent compliance with genetic testing guidelines for AML
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Guidelines by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) recommend testing for seven known genetic...
UT Austin, Environmental Defense Fund, Google and Aclima unveil new hyper-local air pollution map
Credit: American Chemical Society Engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed the most detailed and extensive...
Sleep extension improves response time, reduces fatigue in professional baseball players
Preliminary results from a new study suggest that short-term sleep extension improves response time and daytime functioning of professional baseball...
Study links late-night tweeting by NBA players to worse game performance
Preliminary data from a new study suggests that NBA players had worse personal statistics in games that followed a late-night...
Treating depression w/ software: Tech from Mount Sinai steps into the digital healthcare universe
A treatment for depression using Emotional Faces Memory Task (EFMT), a technology originally developed by two Mount Sinai researchers, resulted...
Four Dana-Farber Researchers awarded prestigious ‘outstanding investigator awards’
BOSTON -- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded four Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers with Outstanding Investigator Awards (OIA) for...
Social jet lag is associated with worse mood, poorer health and heart disease
Preliminary results of a new study show that social jet lag has emerged as an important circadian marker for health...
Sleep regularity is important for the happiness and well-being of college students
Preliminary results from the "SNAPSHOT study", an NIH-funded collaborative research project between the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at...
