Salk’s Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center partners with imaging giant ZEISS
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--The Salk Institute's Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center and ZEISS announced today a global partnership to accelerate ...
Feared by drug users but hard to avoid, fentanyl takes a mounting toll
Credit: Marshall et. al./Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Fentanyl, a highly potent prescription opioid, has Rhode Island drug users on ...
GW researcher finds centenarians have lower incidence of chronic illness
WASHINGTON (June 7, 2017) -- Centenarians have a lower incidence of chronic illness than those in their 80s and 90s, ...
Don’t rely on smartphone apps to treat back pain
University of Sydney researchers have found that smartphone apps for treating back pain have questionable value as they are generally ...
How cells divide tasks and conquer work
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(June 7, 2017) Despite advances in neuroscience, the brain is still very much a black box--no ...
Seismic CT scan points to rapid uplift of Southern Tibet
Credit: Image courtesy NASA Using seismic data and supercomputers, Rice University geophysicists have conducted a massive seismic CT scan of ...
Cope’s gray treefrogs meet the cocktail party problem
You've been there: Trying to carry on a conversation in a room so noisy that the background chatter threatens to ...
Microbiology: Many forks make light work
New insights into the control of DNA replication and cell division in Corynebacterium glutamicum, a biotechnologically important microorganism, could help ...
The hidden order in DNA diffusion
Credit: © KAUST Anastasia Khrenova A different approach to analyzing the motion of diffusing molecules has helped overturn the long-held ...
Mining cancer data for treatment clues
Credit: Jeremy Goecks, Bassel F. El-Rayes, Shishir K. Maithel, H. Jean Khoury, James Taylor, Michael R. Rossi There is an ...
Tufts University awarded $1 million grant to boost diversity in natural sciences
Credit: Alonso Nichols/Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (June 7, 2017) -- A group of faculty at Tufts University's School of Arts ...
Climate change misconceptions common among teachers, study finds
Recent studies have shown that misconceptions about climate change and the scientific studies that have addressed climate change are pervasive ...
Home blood pressure monitors inaccurate 70 percent of the time: Study
Credit: Melissa Fabrizio Seventy per cent of readings from home blood pressure monitors are unacceptably inaccurate, which could cause serious ...
Russian Polytechnic University among organizers of Russian-Chinese biomedical forum
Credit: Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University On June 6, Forum on Russian-Chinese Biomedical Cooperation was launched at the Zhangjiang ...
Retailers charging women more than men for common hair loss medication
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Women pay an average of 40 percent more than men for minoxidil foams - a ...
Clinical efficacy & future development of continuous glucose monitoring highlighted in DTT
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 7, 2017--A growing body of data from clinical studies of ...
New book on Chromatin Deregulation in Cancer from CSHLPress
Credit: Figure adapted by Meredith Cassuto, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, from the cover of The human genome is packaged into ...
Researchers shed light on how our eyes process visual cues
The mystery of how human eyes compute the direction of moving light has been made clearer by scientists at The ...
Hospitals that carry out more research are more efficient
Credit: UC3M To assess the cause and effect relationship between clinical and basic research and efficiency in public health centers, ...
Prebiotics reduce body fat in overweight children
Bethesda, MD (June 5, 2017) -- There may soon be a new tool in the fight against childhood obesity. Prebiotics ...
