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Fighting mutant influenza
Another flu season is here, which means another chance for viruses to mutate. Already, most influenza A viruses contain a...
Innovators in medical and surgical eye health to convene in Chicago to advance patient care
CHICAGO - Oct 23, 2018 - Thousands of eye physicians and surgeons this week will convene in Chicago to attend...
Serotonin neurons contribute to fail-safe mechanism that ensures recovery from interrupted breathing
Credit: Dymecki lab/Harvard Medical School Scientists trying to identify the roots of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), the leading cause...
Researchers make mice lose weight by imitating effects from cold and nicotine
Inspired by some of the effects from winter swimming and smoking, researchers from the University of Copenhagen, among others, have...
Chemotherapy drug paclitaxel also acts as an immune response modulator
Researchers in Brazil have discovered a new effect of a drug widely used as a chemotherapeutic agent and offered to...
Moving ‘clean meat’ from lab to table
"Clean meat," or meat produced from cultured animal cells, promises enormous benefits for animal welfare and the environment. But to...
Hospitals differ widely in providing safe vaginal delivery after cesarean
Despite the conventional belief that for women giving birth "once a cesarean always a cesarean," vaginal delivery after cesarean --...
Polymers offer a better view
Credit: © 2018 KAUST Improvements in how samples are prepared will add range and flexibility to a method that detects...
Study: Racism, sexual assault contribute to college mental health challenges
A text mining analysis of academic and news articles related to mental health issues in higher education finds that racism,...
Insilico to present its research in AI aging clocks
Credit: Insilico Medicine, Inc. Wednesday, October 24, 2018, Boston - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company developing the end-to-end drug discovery...
Stress can impair memory, reduce brain size in middle age, study finds
SAN ANTONIO--Adults in their 40s and 50s with higher levels of cortisol--a hormone linked to stress--performed worse on memory and...
Free online casino games linked with higher risks of gambling problems for young people
TORONTO, OCTOBER 24, 2018 - Type "slots" into a search engine, and free online games and apps will appear, easily...
Marine algae bloom-derived biotoxins alter development of zooplankton and ocean food web
Credit: orres-Águila, Et. al. Researchers from the University of Barcelona in collaboration with a team from the Zoological Station Anton...
Neurology: Space travel alters the brain
Spending long periods in space not only leads to muscle atrophy and reductions in bone density, it also has lasting...
Peptide engineered by NTU Singapore successfully exploits Achilles’ heel of Zika virus
Credit: NTU Singapore Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have engineered an antiviral peptide that exploits the Zika...
The HPV vaccine: Why parents really choose to refuse
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine A new study of survey data finds that only a minority of parents choose not to...
Researchers develop new devices to test retinal cells
Credit: Utah State University LOGAN, UTAH -- Researchers at Utah State University have developed new devices to mechanically stress human...
Complex and rapidly changing payment models challenge physician practices, study finds
Physician payment models are becoming more complex and the pace of change is increasing, creating challenges for physician practices that...
Bioengineered human cardiac models spur disruptive innovation in disease research
TORONTO (23 Oct. 2018) -- Thrombosis-on-a-chip, vasculature-on-a-chip and engineered models of human cardiac fibrosis are just a few of the...
Utah cancer registry receives renewal from National Cancer Institute
SALT LAKE CITY- Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) and the University of Utah (U of U) will receive up to $28...
