Poliovirus therapy for recurrent glioblastoma has three year survival rate of 21 percent
Credit: Shawn Rocco/Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- A genetically modified poliovirus therapy developed at Duke Cancer Institute shows significantly improved ...
Novel micropacemaker takes new approach to faulty heart rhythms
Investigators at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and the University of Southern California have demonstrated the feasibility of implanting a micropacemaker ...
Serotonin speeds learning
Credit: Matias, Lottem et al./CCU An international team from the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown (CCU), in Portugal, and the ...
Cleveland clinic- led study shows leadless pacemaker patients experience less complications
June 26, 2018, CLEVELAND: Patients receiving leadless pacemakers experience overall fewer short-term and mid-term complications than those receiving traditional transvenous ...
Marshall School of Medicine research team defines possible anti-aging intervention
Credit: Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- New research from a team at the Marshall ...
New study links poor sleep quality to atrial fibrillation
Philadelphia, June 26, 2018 - Poor sleep quality appears to be an important risk factor for atrial fibrillation, report scientists ...
Antidepressants may increase risk of death by 20 percent for those with progressive lung disease
Credit: St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, June 26, 2018 - Antidepressant use in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is ...
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center earns Commission on Cancer’s Outstanding Achievement Award
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - The American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC) has granted a three-year accreditation and ...
USC researchers find kids sneak smoking substitute into school
A tobacco replacement to help grownups quit smoking has landed in the hands of children sucking on nicotine vapors to ...
Scientists take a journey into the lungs of mice infected with influenza
MADISON - In the 1966 novel, Fantastic Voyage, written by biochemist and author Isaac Asimov, a crew of people become ...
UCR team among scientists developing guidebook for finding life beyond earth
Credit: NASA/DSCVR RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- If you're looking for a manual on the hunt for alien life, you're in ...
Commonly used HIV drug worldwide not associated with increased risk for suicide in Uganda
Annals of Internal Medicine Tip Sheet Below please find summaries of new articles that will be published in the next ...
Researchers find prostate cancer drug byproduct can fuel cancer cells
Credit: Cleveland Clinic June 25, 2018, Cleveland: A genetic anomaly in certain men with prostate cancer may impact their response ...
Control of quantum state of optical phonon in diamond induced by ultrashort light pulses
Credit: Kazutaka.G.Nakamura Ultrashort Light-pulse-induced vibrations of atoms in a lattice, called optical coherent phonons, have been controlled in various materials. ...
Efficient, eco-friendly production of fine chemicals
The chemical industry produces not just valuable vitamins, pharmaceuticals, flavours and pesticides, but often a large amount of waste, too. ...
Aimee Shen of Tufts Medical School granted PATH award from Burroughs Wellcome Fund
BOSTON (June 25, 2018)--Aimee Shen, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular biology and microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine is ...
Nanomaterials could mean more algae outbreaks for wetlands, waterways
Credit: Photo by Steven Anderson, Duke University. DURHAM, N.C. -- The last 10 years have seen a surge in the ...
Eye-in-the-sky to save olive trees
Credit: Juan A. Navas-Cortes A new airborne remote-imaging method that scans entire orchards can identify olive trees infected by a ...
UTA physicist Benjamin Jones awarded $750,000 from DOE early career research program
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded UTA assistant professor of physics Benjamin Jones $750,000 to develop a sensor for ...
In melanoma, radiosurgery may combine well with immunotherapy, especially PD-1 inhibitors
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Doctors often treat melanoma with drugs that unblind the immune system to cancer. And ...
