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Dr. Lauren Ferrante, critical care expert, becomes inaugural Hurria awardee at #AGS19
Credit: (C) 2019. American Geriatrics Society The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and the AGS Health in Aging Foundation today conferred...
Bacteria partners with virus to cause chronic wounds, Stanford study finds
A common bacterial pathogen called Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces a virus that substantially increases the pathogen's ability to infect us, according...
Modelled climate change impact on mosquito-borne virus transmission
Credit: NIAID (CC BY 2.0, 2016) Mosquito-borne viruses, such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika, already threaten over a billion people...
New Yorkers brace for self-cloning Asian longhorned tick
Columbia researchers warn that NYC's Asian longhorned tick population is larger than previously knownCredit: Center for Disease Control and Prevention...
Novel brain map tracks early brain atrophy from HIV infection
Credit: Xiong Jiang/Georgetown WASHINGTON -- A new map of brain tissue in people with HIV shows atrophy in several areas...
FEFU scientists conduct research of quark-gluon plasma for the Russian NICA collider
Credit: Roman Savin, FEFU press office Scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) won the Megascience-NICA competition of the Russian...
Dissecting dengue: Innovative model sheds light on confounding immune response
About 40 percent of the global population is at risk for contracting dengue - the most important mosquito-borne viral infection...
1 billion people will be newly exposed to diseases like dengue fever as world temperatures rise
WASHINGTON -- As many as a billion people could be newly exposed to disease-carrying mosquitoes by the end of the...
Running upright: The minuscule movements that keep us from falling
New study finds the human body constantly corrects to stay on its feet COLUMBUS, Ohio--Maybe running comes easy, each stride...
Screening for colorectal cancer at 45 would avert deaths, but testing older adults would do more
Starting routine colorectal cancer screening at age 45 rather than 50 would decrease U.S. cancer deaths by as much as...
How to make self-driving cars safer on roads
USC computer science researchers develop a new way to test machine learning algorithms that control self-driving carsCredit: Anand Balakrishnan It's...
Research provides framework for developing Ebola virus therapeutic under animal rule
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) today announced that, for the first time, the U.S. Food...
ORNL investigates complex uranium oxides with help from CADES resources
Credit: Jason Richards/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are working to understand...
A bad bout of flu triggers ‘taste bud cells’ to grow in the lungs
The discovery of these seemingly out-of-place sensing cells may lend insight into possibilities for protecting lung function in people who...
Dark matter experiment finds no evidence of axions
In its first run, ABRACADABRA detects no signal of the hypothetical dark matter particle within a specific mass range. Physicists...
Researchers at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s optimize gene editing for SCD and beta thalassemia
New strategy for editing blood stem cells is more efficient and targetedCredit: Daniel Bauer/Boston Children's Hospital Researchers at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's...
3D printed tissues may keep athletes in action
Rice University bioengineers lead effort to print scaffolds to heal bone and cartilageCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 28,...
MIT receives $30 million to help address energy challenges in Egypt
Award from USAID will support research collaborations through new Center of Excellence in Energy at Ain Shams University in Cairo....
RIT, zoo researchers capturing sights, sounds and insects of Madagascar
Professor Anthony Vodacek helps lay groundwork for new virtual reality experience Researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology and Seneca Park...
Cancer prevention drug also disables H. pylori bacterium
Credit: Joe Howell A medicine currently being tested as a chemoprevention agent for multiple types of cancer has more than...
