New consensus document for appropriate use of drug testing in clinical addiction medicine
June 1, 2017 - A new Consensus Document from the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) provides practical, evidence-based recommendations...
Video shows invasive lionfish feasting on new Caribbean fish species
Credit: Carole Baldwin/Smithsonian Institution The showy lionfish, a predator with venomous spines that has invaded Caribbean coral reefs, has found...
Beyond broke bones, CTs also detect frailty and predict survival
Credit: Copyright UC Regents 2017 Using computed tomography (CT) to evaluate muscle health may help identify optimal treatments for older...
A better dye job for roots — in plants
Credit: Elke Barbez/Gregor Mendel Institute LA JOLLA--(June 1, 2017) Once we start coloring our hair, we may be surprised to...
Uncovering why playing a musical instrument can protect brain health
Credit: Baycrest Health Sciences A recent study conducted at Baycrest Health Sciences has uncovered a crucial piece into why playing...
New approach to antibiotic therapy is a dead end for pathogens
Credit: Camilo Barbosa/Dr. Philipp Dirksen The World Health Organization WHO is currently warning of an antibiotics crisis. The fear is...
Immune responses from early study of novel sarcoma vaccine
SEATTLE -- June 1, 2017 -- The critical component of an experimental vaccine led to an escalating immune response in...
Fred Hutch scientists to discuss new treatments, public health findings at ASCO
Scientists from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center will present new findings at the 2017 annual meeting of the American Society...
Physicists create ‘molecular black hole’ using ultra-intense X-ray pulses
Credit: DESY/Science Communication Lab MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- Heavy atoms absorbing X-rays are sucking the electrons from their molecular neighbors like...
Newly identified microbial process could reduce toxic methylmercury levels
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn. May 31, 2017 - A team led by the Department...
Radiation therapy, macrophages improve efficacy of nanoparticle-delivered cancer therapy
Credit: Miles Miller, PhD, and Ralph Weissleder, MD, PhD; Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital A Massachusetts General Hospital...
New tech promises easier cervical cancer screening
Credit: Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University researchers have developed a handheld device for cervical cancer screening that promises...
How our brains integrate online reviews into our own product preferences
UCL researchers have identified how the human brain integrates social information when a person decides how much they like something,...
Mining for answers on abandoned mines
Credit: Andrew Harley Soil scientist Jim Ippolito believes in local solutions to local problems. The problem he's working on is...
Outnumbered and on others’ turf, misfits sometimes thrive
Credit: Daniel Bolnick/U. of Texas at Austin It's hard being a misfit: say, a Yankees fan in a room full...
Restored ocean will alleviate poverty, provide jobs, and improve health, finds report
Credit: Lindsay Lafreniere A healthy ocean will benefit global sustainable development in a number of ways, finds a new report...
We’re on the brink of mass extinction — but there’s still time to pull back
Credit: Susan Barrott, UMinn Imagine being a scuba diver and leaving your oxygen tank behind you on a dive. Or...
Bacteria may supercharge the future of wastewater treatment
Credit: Stephanie Precourt/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Wastewater treatment plants have a PR problem: People don't like to think about what...
NASA sees formation of Tropical Depression Two-E in Eastern Pacific Ocean
Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project The second tropical depression of the Eastern Pacific Ocean hurricane season formed near southwestern Mexico....
Russian scientists improved an X-ray fluorescence analysis algorithm
Scientists from the Faculty of Chemistry of the Lomonosov Moscow State University have performed computations and derived new equations, allowing...
