How will genomics enter day-to-day medicine?
A quiet transformation has been brewing in medicine, as large-scale DNA results become increasingly available to patients and healthcare providers....
Shining light on brain tumors
Credit: N.V. Kuzmin et al, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands WASHINGTON — When operating on cancer, surgeons want to remove...
NTU scientists develop patch which could improve healing and reduce scarring
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Does new cash-out option in sports betting increase risk for problem…
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 24, 2017–The increasingly popular cash-out feature in online sports betting...
In fruit fly and human genetics, timing is everything
Credit: McKay Lab (UNC-Chapel Hill) CHAPEL HILL, NC – Every animal starts as a clump of cells, which over time...
Biophysics explains how immune cells kill bacteria
Credit: Scientific Reports (Tokyo, August 16) A new data analysis technique, moving subtrajectory analysis, designed by researchers at Tokyo Institute...
Why big brains are rare
Credit: David Kilper/Washington University As a species we're so brain-proud it doesn't occur to most of us to ask whether...
A quarter of problematic cannabis users have anxiety disorders, many since childhood
ematic in early adulthood have anxiety disorders in childhood and late adolescence, reports a study published in the November 2017...
Is moderate drinking really good for you?
PISCATAWAY, NJ – Many people believe a glass of wine with dinner will help them live longer and healthier–but the...
Novel research lays the groundwork for new therapies against sepsis
Philadelphia, PA, April 8, 2016 – Sepsis represents a serious complication of infection and is one of the leading causes...
Major family of gene-regulating proteins has drug-sized pocket
Credit: Dalei Wu, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research...
Salmon face double whammy from toxic stormwater
Credit: Washington State University VANCOUVER, Wash.–Washington State University researchers have found that salmon face a double whammy when they swim...
A $5 fix for a nasty parasite
Credit: Ryan Hulvat The life of a watershed is complex. The watershed is the area of land separating the smaller...
New initiative improves health behaviors of lesbian, bisexual women
Credit: Kent Faddis/ MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (July 7, 2016) — Lesbian and bisexual women have higher rates of obesity,...
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