Engineering a better device to capture — and release — circulating tumor cells
Credit: iDreamMachine For years, bioengineer Yaling Liu has been in pursuit of the deadly tumor cell. Liu has been perfecting ...
Overcoming bias about music takes work
Expectations and biases play a large role in our experiences. This has been demonstrated in studies involving art, wine and ...
Active young adults with Type 1 diabetes have muscle complications: Study
Credit: York University News Toronto, ON (April 18, 2018) - A new study from McMaster and York universities has found ...
Mayo Clinic study finds no evidence that anesthesia in young children lowers intelligence
ROCHESTER, Minn. - A Mayo Clinic study finds no evidence that children given anesthesia before their third birthdays have lower ...
Low-income HIV patients suffer with healthcare access
Credit: MUHC Montreal, April 18, 2017-- Quebecers are not created equal when it comes to accessing anti-retroviral treatment (ART) for ...
ALS treatment delays disease and extends life in rats
Credit: Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute LOS ANGELES (April 17, 2018) -- Investigators at Cedars-Sinai are exploring a ...
Thinking about hitching a ride on a mission to Mars? One hazard you haven’t considered
Credit: NASA WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 17, 2018 -- The hazards of space flight are well known: freezing temperatures, the ...
People who use medical marijuana more likely to use and misuse prescription drugs
April 17, 2018 - Can medical marijuana help to fight the opioid epidemic? Many believe that it can. But a ...
OncoDNA announces publication of peer-reviewed study in Oncotarget assessing the utility of its unique biomarker analysis and interpretation platform in clinical decision making
Credit: Jean-François Laes, email: [email protected] Gosselies, Belgium - April 17, 2018: OncoDNA ("OncoDNA or "the Company"), the healthcare technology company ...
Novel proteomics strategies aid cancer research
This month's issue of the journal Molecular & Cellular Proteomics features research using novel proteomics methods to address unanswered questions ...
Nobel laureate, respected researchers talk exosomes in APS President’s Symposium series
San Diego (April 17, 2018) -- APS President Dennis Brown, PhD, of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, has ...
Study: Ibuprofen, acetaminophen more effective than opioids in treating dental pain
Opioids are not among the most effective--or longest lasting--options available for relief from acute dental pain, a new examination of ...
Adolescents’ cooking skills strongly predict future nutritional well-being
Philadelphia, April 17, 2018 - Evidence suggests that developing cooking and food preparation skills is important for health and nutrition, ...
Opioid-related hospitalizations rising in Medicare patients without opioid prescriptions
GALVESTON, Texas - A 2014 federal change that limited the dispensing of hydrocodone products may be indirectly contributing to the ...
Your immune system holds the line against repeat invaders, thanks to this molecule
Credit: Scott Wiseman/The Scripps Research Institute JUPITER, FL--April 17, 2018--Memory T cells are a critical element of our immune system's ...
APS 2018 Distinguished Lectureship Award winners to present talks at Experimental Biology
Bethesda, Md. (April 17, 2018)--The American Physiological Society (APS) has announced the 2018 recipients of its distinguished lecturer awards. APS ...
Insilico to present the advances in Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare in Kenya
Credit: Insilico Medicine Tuesday, April 17th, 2018, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based company specializing in the application of ...
Gene mapping lays groundwork for precision chemotherapy
Despite the great successes of targeted cancer drugs and the promise of novel immunotherapies, the vast majority of people diagnosed ...
UC Berkeley’s massive egg collection aids project up for Webby
Credit: UC Berkeley Can the 12,800 egg sets in the collection of UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology tell us ...
Text messaging tool may help fight opioid epidemic
Credit: Epharmix A new automated text messaging service may curb opioid abuse and reduce the likelihood of relapse while also ...
