Artificial cartilage under tension as strong as natural material
Credit: Athanasiou lab, UC Davis Biomedical engineers at the University of California, Davis, have created a lab-grown tissue similar to...
Healthy diet? That depends on your genes
ITHACA, N.Y. - A recently published Cornell University study describes how shifts in the diets of Europeans after the introduction...
Chemists perform surgery on nanoparticles
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University A team of chemists led by Carnegie Mellon University's Rongchao Jin has for the first time...
Common periodontal pathogen may interfere with conception in women
According to a study carried out at the University of Helsinki, Finland, a common periodontal pathogen may delay conception in...
Lab on a chip could monitor health, germs and pollutants
Credit: Ella Marushchenko and Alexander Tokarev/Ella Maru Studios Imagine wearing a device that continuously analyzes your sweat or blood for...
Animal models can’t ‘tune out’ stimuli, mimicking sensory hypersensitivity in humans
Credit: Portera-Cailiau Lab/UCLA By tickling the whiskers of mice, and recording how they respond, UCLA researchers may be closer to...
Dr. Tuuli Lappalainen awarded major NIH grant to study variable penetrance
NEW YORK, NY (June 12, 2017) - Tuuli Lappalainen, PhD, Core Faculty Member at the New York Genome Center, and...
Mass. General report outlines strategies to address racial, ethnic health care disparities
An analysis of survey data from participants in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-based Disparities Leadership Program - a yearlong executive...
A way to objectively measure residents’ surgical skills? No sweat
Credit: Justin Kelley, University of Missouri Health Post-graduate physician training, known as residency, develops skills and expertise within a medical...
A single molecule is missing and the cell world is empty
Credit: © Beata Edyta Mierzwa, BeataScienceArt.com Cells multiply by duplicating themselves: they grow, replicate their components, and finally split into...
Genetic differences across species guide vocal learning in juvenile songbirds
Credit: David Wheatcroft Juvenile birds discriminate and selectively learn their own species' songs even when primarily exposed to the songs...
Immune profiling leads to implications for immunotherapy for NF1-associated tumors
Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) -- an autosomal dominant disorder affecting approximately one in every 3,500 people -- results in dysfunctional...
GW receives $3 million grant to test hookworm vaccine efficacy in Phase II clinical trial
WASHINGTON (June 12, 2017) -- Researchers at the George Washington University (GW) received a $3 million U01 grant from the...
Uncovered: 1,000 new microbial genomes
The number of microbes in a handful of soil exceeds the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy, but...