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Brown scientist wins $1.5 million innovator award for new approach to decoding brain signals
Credit: Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The motor cortex is the portion of the brain that controls movement, but it's...
New report on mobility has experts moving toward consensus on care as we age
Credit: (C) 2018, American Geriatrics Society Experts at the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) today unveiled a list of recommendations to...
Novel mechanism for generating our skeleton
Credit: Kanazawa University There are more than 200 bones in the human body. Bone is formed during embryonic and postnatal...
Sleep research uncovers dire consequences to deprivation
Credit: Michigan State University Researchers at Michigan State University conducted the largest experimentally controlled study on sleep deprivation to date,...
Assessment of ED Threat perceptions identifies patients at risk for cardiac-induced PTSD
Credit: Kirsty Challen, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, United Kingdom DES PLAINES, IL -- A brief tool assessing emergency department (ED) threat...
Study finds human milk components in amniotic fluid
Credit: UC San Diego Health Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are complex carbohydrates that are highly abundant and unique to human...
Professor, MSD high school senior collaborate on homicide trends
Credit: Florida Atlantic University The vast majority of homicides in the United States are attributable to firearms. The rate of...
Making mice a tiny bit more human to study preterm birth
Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Preterm birth remains a global epidemic linked to a lifetime of potential health complications. It...
Genetic studies of drug metabolism identify research needs for precision medicine
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 2, 2018--Drug safety and effectiveness vary greatly among populations worldwide....
Free thinking: researchers identify origins of free will in the brain
Long the domain of philosophy and religion, free will has also been defined by scientists as a combination of two...
Aggressive breast cancer cells hijack natural stress protector to thrive
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Oct. 2, 2018) - A member of a protein family known...
Youth who use vaping products are more likely to smoke cigarettes, increase use of both
Adolescents who use vaping products are not only more likely to smoke cigarettes but are also likely to increase their...
E-cigarette explosion and burn injuries have been underestimated by federal agencies
Credit: George Mason University Electronic cigarettes (or e-cigarettes) are devices commonly powered by a battery that aerosolize liquid and chemical...
Whole-brain connectome maps teach artificial intelligence to predict epilepsy outcomes
Credit: Dr. Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht and Dr. Leonardo Bonilha of the Medical University of South Carolina Medical University of South Carolina...
Gordon receives $2.3 Million NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Reyna Gordon, PhD, assistant professor of Otolaryngology and director of the Music Cognition Lab in the Department of Otolaryngology at...
Computer model may help scientists split up, reassemble proteins on command
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Splitting up and getting back together is always hard to do, but for proteins, it's almost...
New knowledge on how neurons talk to muscles
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered a new way in which nerve cells can control movement. In a...
University of Minnesota Medical School researchers have discovered how to slow aging
MINNEAPOLIS, MN- October 2, 2018- Previous research published earlier this year in Nature Medicine involving University of Minnesota Medical School...
Northwestern to lead national team studying aging and neurodegenerative disease
Credit: Northwestern University Northwestern University has received a $12.6 million grant from the National Institute on Aging at the National...
First experiments at new X-ray laser reveal unknown structure of antibiotics killer
Credit: Illustration: DESY/Lucid Berlin An international collaboration led by DESY and consisting of over 120 researchers has announced the results...
