Lab led by Zhe Han, Ph.D., receives $1.75 million from NIH to continue…
Credit: Children's National Health System The National Institutes of Health has awarded $1.75 million to a research lab led by...
Revolutionary new weapon in air pollution fight
People could soon be using their smartphones to combat a deadly form of air pollution, thanks to a potentially life-saving...
Guards of the human immune system unraveled
Credit: © Carla Schaffer / AAAS Dendritic cells represent an important component of the immune system: they recognize and engulf...
Stressed seabird parents think only of themselves
Credit: Dorota Kidawa Stress is a factor not only in the best human families; it also appears among animals. To...
Increased arterial stiffness linked to restrictive spirometry pattern and reduced forced vital capacity
Credit: CHEST GLENVIEW, IL, September 27, 2017 – Increased arterial stiffness is a known predictor of cardiovascular diseases in different...
NIH funds 7 international Centers of Excellence for malaria research
Credit: NIAID The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today...
Congenital Zika virus program at Children’s National Health System
Washington, DC – (July 26, 2016) – Federal health officials continue to investigate the first possible cases of domestic Zika...
First, do no harm: Hospital patients given anti-heartburn drugs have higher risk of dying
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Right now, in any American hospital, about half of the patients have a prescription for an...
Genome scientists use UK Salmonella cases to shed light on African…
Credit: Siân Owen and Rocío Canals Scientists at the University of Liverpool and Public Health England have used Salmonella genome...
Researchers find new source of dangerous electrical instability in the heart
Credit: FDA Sudden cardiac death resulting from fibrillation – erratic heartbeat due to electrical instability – is one of the...
Most Kidney Transplant Recipients Visit the Emergency Department After Discharge
Certain characteristics may increase patients’ risk for needing emergency care Highlights • Risk factors for emergency department visits included younger...
New knowledge on how HIV beats the body’s early immune response
Credit: Westmead Institute for Medical Research In an important step towards eradicating HIV-associated viral reservoirs, researchers at Sydney's Westmead Institute...
Researchers design and patent graphene biosensors
Graphene is the first truly two-dimensional crystal, which was obtained experimentally and investigated regarding its unique chemical and physical properties....
Broccoli in focus when new substance against diabetes has been…
Credit: Margareta Gustafsson Kubista/University of Gothenburg Researchers have identified an antioxidant – richly occurring in broccoli – as a new...
Invasive lung cancer cells display symbiosis — Key to metastasis
Credit: Damon Meharg/Winship Cancer Institute When cancer cells split off from a tumor to seed deadly metastases, they are thought...
An ‘IRBIT’uary before cell death
Credit: RIKEN Billions of cells in our bodies die every day in an important process called apoptosis. Now, researchers at...
Study ranks safety, effectiveness of cognitive enhancers for…
Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Sept. 29, 2017–A new study ranking the safety and effectiveness of four drugs...
Research links locus coeruleus activity with hyperarousal in PTSD
Regions of the brain associated with stress and posttraumatic stress disorder. Credit: National Institutes of Health Philadelphia, PA, October 31,...
Cross-species jumps may play unexpectedly big role in virus evolution
Credit: Geoghegan JL, et al. (2017) On occasion, a virus may jump from one host species to another and adapt...
Dietary fiber protects against obesity and metabolic syndrome, study…
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA–Consumption of dietary fiber can prevent obesity, metabolic syndrome and adverse changes in the intestine by...
